What Color are Jews? Exploring the Diversity of Our Community Locally and Globally
This series is no longer offered.
Local photographer Bryan Schwartz documented the global Jewish community in Scattered Among the Nations. This exhibit challenges the stereotypes of what Jews look like. But are we more comfortable with Asian or Black Jews in exotic locations than with the person sitting next to us in shul? What is it like to be Jewish and Black or Jewish and Asian in the Bay Area? Do multiracial Jews feel accepted in the local Jewish community? Is there a difference for Jews of color raised Jewish and those who convert?
Schedule
| Session | Time | Days | Location | Instructors |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scattered Among the Nations Opening Reception | ||||
| Sep 18 2011 | 5:00 PM–7:00 PM | Sun | Temple Sinai | Bryan Schwartz |
| What Color are Jews? Panel One: Asian and Jewish | ||||
| Oct 23 2011 | 9:30 AM–11:00 AM | Sun | Temple Sinai | Dawn Kepler |
| What Color are Jews? Panel Two: Black and Jewish | ||||
| Nov 06 2011 | 9:30 AM–11:00 AM | Sun | Temple Sinai | Dawn Kepler |
| Diversity from a Biblical Perspective | ||||
| Nov 13 2011 | 9:30 AM–11:00 AM | Sun | Temple Sinai | Rabbi Jacqueline Mates-Muchin |
| What Color are Jews? Panel Three: Born This Way | ||||
| Dec 04 2011 | 9:30 AM–11:00 AM | Sun | Temple Sinai | Dawn Kepler |
| Jewish from Argentina: A Rabbi’s Tale | ||||
| Jan 24 2012 | 7:30 PM–9:00 PM | Tue | Temple Sinai | Rabbi Roberto Graetz |
| Imagine the Jewish Future: Judaism in the 21st Century | ||||
| Feb 22 2012 | 7:30 PM–9:00 PM | Wed | Temple Sinai | Diane Tobin |
| Jewish Identity Development for Multiracial Jews | ||||
| Mar 28 2012 | 7:30 PM–9:00 PM | Wed | Temple Sinai | Dr. Jerry Diller Rabbi Jacqueline Mates-Muchin |
| Celebrating Jewish Racial Diversity | ||||
| May 12 2012 | 6:30 PM–8:30 PM | Sat | Temple Sinai | Mark Levy |
Courses
Scattered Among the Nations Opening Reception
A200-TS Instructors: Schwartz Starting: 09/18/2011 Location: Temple Sinai
Bryan Schwartz, curator of the Scattered Among the Nations exhibit, photojournalist and civil rights attorney, will deliver a multimedia presentation featuring images and stories of the world's most isolated and diverse Jewish communities; from Ghana, ...
What Color are Jews? Panel One: Asian and Jewish
A100A-TS Instructors: Kepler Starting: 10/23/2011 Location: Temple Sinai
What is it like to live with the assumption that you can’t possibly be Jewish? A panel of local Asian Jews (born Jewish, adopted, or converted) will discuss the experience of living in the Jewish ...
What Color are Jews? Panel Two: Black and Jewish
A100B-TS Instructors: Kepler Starting: 11/06/2011 Location: Temple Sinai
Come hear a panel of local Black Jews (born Jewish, converted, or adopted) discuss the challenges they meet daily and ways that we, their fellow Jews, can be better advocates, allies, and family members. Panels ...
Diversity from a Biblical Perspective
T100-TS Instructors: Mates-Muchin Starting: 11/13/2011 Location: Temple Sinai
What does the Bible say about diversity? Is the mandate to encourage or reject diversity? Or is it both? Join us for an interactive discussion of issues of diversity as seen through the lens of ...
What Color are Jews? Panel Three: Born This Way
A100C-TS Instructors: Kepler Starting: 12/04/2011 Location: Temple Sinai
The biggest job children have is to figure out who they are. What if they’re Jewish, a child of color, and trying to understand what the adults are saying about them? Come hear a panel ...
Jewish from Argentina: A Rabbi’s Tale
A250-TS Instructors: Graetz Starting: 01/24/2012 Location: Temple Sinai
Explore the South American Jewish experience and how is it different from North America. What are the feelings of ethnic difference? How does one acculturate to the United States? What family and cultural traditions remain ...
Imagine the Jewish Future: Judaism in the 21st Century
A300-TS Instructors: Tobin Starting: 02/22/2012 Location: Temple Sinai
Worldwide, the number of Jews is stagnant. Decimated by the Inquisition, the Holocaust, high intermarriage rates and low birth rates, Jews now comprise only 0.2% of the world's people. In focusing our attention on traditional ...
Jewish Identity Development for Multiracial Jews
A350-TS Instructors: Kepler Starting: 03/28/2012 Location: Temple Sinai
Children experience life quite differently than adults. We will address what it is like to grow up Jewish if you don’t look Jewish. What comments and behaviors impact a multiracial child’s sense of their Jewishness? ...
Celebrating Jewish Racial Diversity
A450-TS Instructors: Levy Starting: 05/12/2012 Location: Temple Sinai
Let’s celebrate the diversity of our community with a party! This is the culmination of What Color Are Jews? – a year-long program in partnership with Building Jewish Bridges, Temple Sinai and Lehrhaus Judaica. The ...