Color | United States

Date: Wednesday, October 27, 2021. 5:00 PM. Location: Rimon Lounge in the Hillel Building, 565 Mayfield Ave Stanford's Taube Center for Jewish Studies and the Concentration in Education and Jewish Studies at the Graduate School of Education invite you to a conversation about Jews and race with two leaders in the field. American Jews are diverse, representing a range of identities. Although American Jewish Organizations have spent considerable effort trying to understand American Jewish experiences, they have also consistently avoided questions about race and ethnicity, leaving a significant gap in our understanding of American Jews who might identify as "people of color." In 2020, the Jews of Color Initiative sought to rectify this situation by commissioning a national study of self-identified Jews of Color. The effort culminated in the publication of "Beyond the Count: Experiences and Perspectives of Jews of Color." Join Ilana Kaufman, the Executive Director of the Jews of Color Initiative, and Dr. Gage Gors...