February
8
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Avishai Mekonen:
This Is What Jewish Looks Like
A photographer and filmmaker born into the Beta Israel community, Avishai Mekonen chronicled his journey from Ethiopia to Israel as part of Operation Moses and on to the United States in the documentary film 400 Miles to Freedom, which explores racism and diversity in the Jewish community in the United States, Israel and beyond. He will show selected clips from his films.
In conversation with Kylie Unell, PhD student in Jewish Philosphy (NYU) and founder/Executive Director of Rooted, a project that provides young Jews with the community and content they need to live flourishing modern Jewish lives.
Monday, February 8 |
6:00 pm Eastern
Free
Free
A virtual series
Watch the trailer for (and rent) Avishai Mekonen’s 400 Miles to Freedom here
Read Kylie Unell’s JTA article My mom is white and my dad is black. Don’t call me a ‘Jew of Color’
Monday, February 8 |
6:00 pm
Free
Free
A photographer and filmmaker born into the Beta Israel community, Avishai Mekonen chronicled his journey from Ethiopia to Israel as part of Operation Moses and on to the United States in the documentary film 400 Miles to Freedom, which explores racism and diversity in the Jewish community in the United States, Israel and beyond. He will show selected clips from his films.
In conversation with Kylie Unell, PhD student in Jewish Philosphy (NYU) and founder/Executive Director of Rooted, a project that provides young Jews with the community and content they need to live flourishing modern Jewish lives.
This event has taken place
A virtual series
Watch the trailer for (and rent) Avishai Mekonen’s 400 Miles to Freedom here
Read Kylie Unell’s JTA article My mom is white and my dad is black. Don’t call me a ‘Jew of Color’
This Is What Jewish Looks Like
It’s long been a point of pride that Jews are a multicultural people with roots in every corner of the planet; that we are of all hues; that our grandparents spoke Yiddish and Hindi, German and Malayalam, Hebrew and Amharic.
After all, our global Jewish community is composed of the descendants of Jews who moved to present-day Iraq after the Babylonian Exile, Chinese Jews whose ancestors were Persians traveling the Silk Road, European Jews living all across the Continent long before the word Ashkenazi was ever uttered and African Jews scattered from Ethiopia to Mali for thousands of years.
Their descendants, in turn, migrated to the United States, where an estimated 12-15 percent of the Jewish community are Jews of color, including many of African descent.
For Black History Month, The Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center will celebrate our richly diverse experience through the personal stories of four prominent Black Jews who will talk about life as a minority within a minority and discuss what the Jewish community needs to do to turn the word inclusion into a reality.
Monday, February 1
Rebecca Walker
Monday, February 8
Avishai Mekonen
Monday, February 15
Rabbi Isaama Goldstein-Stoll
Monday, February 22
Michael W. Twitty
All events start at 6:00 PM EST