Racial Justice Initiative

Racism remains a critical barrier for far too many people in America. The TBE Racial Justice Initiative provides opportunities for our community to further develop our understanding of how racism impacts our economic, social, and justice systems and to work to address these inequities. We hope to see our community transformed towards a deeper understanding and engagement with issues around racial justice.

Reflect: Work within our own community to deepen our understanding of the historical and present systems that contribute to racism.
Relate: Develop relationships within the Jewish community and across race with partners we can collaborate with to support racial justice efforts.
Reform: Take meaningful and powerful action with our partners in pursuit of policy changes to dismantle structural racism at all levels — local, state and national — and across all institutions and systems — education, food, housing, law enforcement and criminal justice, media and wealth creation.

These principles are based on the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism (RAC)’s Racial Justice Campaign model.