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Tag: April Baskin

  • ‘Believe us’: Black Jews respond to the George Floyd protests, in their own words

    “As the Jewish community reaches in and says how do we support their cause and how do we support the black community, it’s really important that people reach in to black Jews and other Jews of color and realize that we’re here,” Tanner said. “And we need our community.”

  • Jews of Color Get Personal and Political at First-Ever National Gathering

    Jews of Color Get Personal and Political at First-Ever National Gathering Forward 2016-05-04 Sigal Samuel, Opinion Editor If you want to get black Jews, Mizrahi Jews and a Palestinian-American Muslim to burst into tears at the same time, invite Yavilah McCoy to talk about hair. Speaking at the opening plenary of the Jews of Color…

  • Meet April Baskin, the Multiracial Face of Reform Judaism

    Meet April Baskin, the Multiracial Face of Reform Judaism Forward 2015-11-28 Allison Kaplan Sommer (Haaretz) Image: Haaretz See also: “Black and Jewish: New Reform Leader Works to Bring Marginalized Groups Into the Tribe” on 2015-11-25 from Haaretz. To meet April Baskin is to see the change in American Jewry personified. A tall, confident, 32-year-old with an impressive…