Jews of Color

Teen Jews of Color Fellowship Empowers Young Leaders

Kelly Whitehead

July 11, 2024

NFTY's Teen Jews of Color Fellowship is a nine-month program that offers leadership development, value building, and deep communal connection by and for Jews of Color. All of these are especially crucial in these challenging times.

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Jewish History

Owning Our Racial Equity Work Ahead: Three Things We Must Do

January 14, 2021

In the video “Owning Our Racial Equity Work Ahead,” Yolanda Savage-Narva, the Union for Reform Judaism’s director of Racial, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (REDI), calls on each of us in the Jewish community to do three things.

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Racial Equity, Diversity, & Inclusion (REDI) Communities of Belonging

Affinity Groups: A Space for Strength, Belonging, and Empowerment

Anabelle Keimach

November 30, 2020

Affinity groups are important spaces for people to further consider their identities and draw strength from similarly identifying individuals.

Racial Justice

How to Help Combat the “Perpetual Stranger Status” of Jews of Color

April Baskin

February 1, 2016

Jews come in all colors, and our diaspora is beautiful and vast! North Africa and the Middle East are among the places from which Jews originated, and we have lived on every continent. We’re a global, multiracial people that’s growing more racially and ethnically diverse through interfaith and interracial marriage, conversion, and adoption.