Jews Talk Racial Justice - Ep. 83: Beyond the Brisket: Creating a Liberatory Passover Practice

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As we approach Passover 5782, we’re thinking about the tension inherent in commemorating a moment of acute urgency with practices that require a lot of time, intention, and planning. The Passover story contains multiple moments when our ancestors and predecessors displayed both faith and radical imagination, but when ritual becomes rigid, it can limit beliefs and imagination. April and Tracie investigate how we can use the Passover holiday, ritual, and greater awareness, to nurture and apply our own radical imagination toward liberation.

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Jews Talk Racial Justice - Ep. 82: Showing up for justice when life gets hard (LIVE)

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This week, we’re bringing you our conversation from our live event on March 23. If we’re being real here (which we ALWAYS are), we know that many of us (especially in the Jewish community) are feeling overwhelmed, stressed, and hurt by the state of the world. April and Tracie (and a couple of amazing community members!) give us some helpful framings and tips for processing and moving through our hurt, process our emotions, and get through to the other side. And spoiler alert: you don’t have to suffer in order to powerfully show up for justice!

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Jews Talk Racial Justice - S2E6: Getting Unstuck when Fear has you Frozen

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“Even when we do things right, people are still going to be upset, because they have unhealed trauma. Our country is drowning in unhealed, unaddressed trauma, and it plays out in all kinds of ways. But how I would love for it not to continue to play out is stopping or impeding good people from doing courageous, trajectory-shifting work for our community around justice. In this case, specifically, racial justice.” - April N. Baskin

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Jews Talk Racial Justice - Ep 19: Jews Talk Black Lives Matter

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“So what’s my response when someone asks for a more palatable phrase? ‘You know what? Let's figure that out later. Right now, let's do what we need to do to dismantle the structures that are allowing Black people to be endangered on our streets.’” - Tracie Guy-Decker

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Jews Talk Racial Justice - Ep 5: Tracie and April Live: Intergroup Collaboration in Savannah and Beyond

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“I have some things to contribute and I am still learning. Holding that both/and is going to be key, because there is a long history of white-skinned Jews in America doing things that look like integration but, in fact, might be forcing folks to align to the way we want things to be.” - Tracie Guy-Decker

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Jews Talk Racial Justice - Ep 3: Yom Kippur, Cows, and Collective Accountability

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“I have definitely seen white people who are so about saying just the right thing or doing just the right thing that they don't do anything and don't engage at all. [It’s] about the importance of continuing to show up rather than getting it exactly right.” - Tracie Guy-Decker

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Jews Talk Racial Justice - Ep 2: Rosh Hashana, Prince, Visions, Both Big and Small

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“How can we, as Jews who are committed to justice, and are committed to racial justice, leverage the sanctity of Rosh Hashanah, of this day of the season, of the days of awe, to advance our racial justice work?” - April N. Baskin

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