Rabbi Aryeh Bernstein

Episode 16: Silver and Gold: Reparations and Judaism

January 14th, 2021  |  Season 1  |  43 mins 55 secs

Since Ta-Nehisi Coates published his influential Atlantic essay “The Case for Reparations” in 2014, a number of thinkers have made explicitly Jewish arguments for (and against) reparations for American slavery. Educator and activist Rabbi Aryeh Bernstein argues in an article on Evolve that the case for reparations is presented clearly in the Torah itself. In this episode, Bernstein explores this claim, and what he thinks it means for present-day policies and politics.