Evolve
Groundbreaking Jewish Conversations
We found 2 episodes of Evolve with the tag “racism”.
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Episode 63: Ilana Kaufman on Jews of Color, Racism and Antisemitism
January 30th, 2025 | Season 1 | 1 hr 6 mins
academia, antisemitism, black, black and jewish, diversity, inclusion, jewish, jews of color, judaism, october 7, race, racism, soviet jewry, zionism
In a conversation both deeply personal and grounded in history and sociology, Ilana Kaufman, CEO of the Jews of Color Initiative, shares her mission and why the work has been so challenging in a post-October 7 world.
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Episode 62: Rabbi Sandra Lawson and Rabbi Alex Weissman on Dismantling Racism
January 16th, 2025 | Season 1 | 56 mins 36 secs
10/7, anti-racism, anti-semitism, antisemitism, jewish, judaism, mussar, october 7, rabbi, racism, reconstructing judaism, reconstructionist, rrc
“Dismantling Racism from the Inside Out.” The idea is deceptively simple and strongly rooted in Jewish tradition. To change society, individuals must first address their own attitudes, biases and inner lives. Easy to say, much harder to carry out. Rabbi Sandra Lawson and Rabbi Alex Weissman reflect on why, in an age of skyrocketing antisemitism, it’s as important as ever for Jewish communities to address racism from within.