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Neither the Jewish Emergent Network nor Dimensions are directly endorsing any of the artists, healers, diverse teachers of faith, or other content creators whose work is linked in this challenge. We are sharing the world of spirit equitably with many people as we endeavor to learn more about our need to work together across diverse faith communities to dismantle racism and white supremacy for us all.
White Jews Learning Track
Listen to Music, Prayer & Share
LISTEN to Music: Rise Up by Andra Day
REFLECT: Compose a short anti-racist prayer/vision for yourself that describes your hopes and commitments for deepening your anti- racist practice by re-evaluating your relationship to silence. Share your prayer aloud with at least one other person today.
Black, Indigenous, Sephardi/Mizrachi and More Broadly Identified Jews of Color Learning Track
Reading, Reflection & Journal Writing
READ: What is Internalized Racism?
REFLECT:
1. How do you see internalized racism impacting you personally or the communities or groups that you work with?
2. What challenges are you facing in dealing with or addressing internalized racism in your current work with other JOCs? What are opportunities for addressing internalized racism in your current work?
3. The concept of the “false culture of race” suggests that there is a more authentic culture available to us. What new cultural possibilities for JOCs are you dreaming of?
4. Have you experienced JOCs, as individuals or as a collective, perpetuating racism?
5. Have you experienced internalized racism interfering with collective functioning across JOCs?
6. Have you experienced institutions you work with keeping Jews of Color divided and competing with one another for access and resources? What role might you play in helping Jews of Color collectively to resist these dynamics?
7. Think of a situation in which you (depending on your position) exercised or colluded with white privilege. What would need to change at the inner, interpersonal, institutional/structural level in order for this to have had a different outcome?
8. What does it mean for you as a Jew of Color to hold your institution accountable?
9. What relationships do you and other Jews of color you work with have as individuals and as a collective with people of color in communities of resistance?
10. When you consider the four levels on which internalized racism operates (inner, interpersonal, institutional/structural and cultural) where do you imagine the most possibilities for change?
