VOTE 2020: Check for your Mail-in Ballot!!
If you live in California, chances are that you have already received your mail-in ballot for the 2020 election. If you have, you can fill it out and return it to one of your area’s secure ballot drop-off locations. Vote-by-Mail Ballot Drop Boxes and...
INSPIRING: Rabbi’s d’var Torah on loneliness and Jews of Color
JCJ Clergy Cohort member and Temple De Hirsch Sinai Rabbi Avi Fine delivered the following d’var Torah on Yom Kippur this year. Watch the full clip below. One particular excerpt stands out, beginning at 7:01: Through tfillah and tzadakah, we can split the sea of...
A Vidui (Confession) for Racism
Each year on Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, we beat our chests and engage in a communal confession. Looking back on a year, it can be difficult to pinpoint specific mistakes or failures. The beauty of a communal confession is that we take on all these failures...
How one teacher transformed her students’ understanding of racism with a single experiment
*Photo from www.janeelliott.com* By Allen Schultz On April 5, 1968, a class of white third-grade students from Riceville, Iowa all had the same question for their teacher, Ms. Jane Elliott – why was their “Hero of the Month,” Martin Luther King Jr., killed the day...