{"id":42049,"date":"2015-07-28T17:33:18","date_gmt":"2015-07-28T17:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=42049"},"modified":"2015-07-28T17:33:18","modified_gmt":"2015-07-28T17:33:18","slug":"black-jewish-and-challenging-ideas-about-the-face-of-federation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=42049","title":{"rendered":"Black, Jewish and challenging ideas about the face of federation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jta.org\/2014\/12\/01\/news-opinion\/united-states\/black-jewish-and-challenging-ideas-about-the-face-of-federation\" target=\"_blank\">Black, Jewish and challenging ideas about the face of federation<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jta.org\" target=\"_blank\">Jewish Telegraphic Agency<\/a> (JTA)<br \/>\nNew York, New York<br \/>\n2014-12-01<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jta.org\/author\/rebecca-spence\" target=\"_blank\">Rebecca Spence<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>(JTA) \u2014 When <a href=\"http:\/\/bendthearc.us\/leadership\/ilana-kaufman\" target=\"_blank\">Ilana Kaufman<\/a>, a program officer at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jewishfed.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Jewish Community Federation<\/a>, arrived at San Quentin State Prison for a meeting with the Jewish chaplain at California\u2019s oldest correctional facility, the chaplain couldn\u2019t seem to find her \u2014 even though Kaufman was standing in plain sight.<\/p>\n<p>As Kaufman waited in the receiving area, a security officer by her side, the spiritual leader of the prison community \u2014 largely composed of men of color \u2014 turned her head left and right trying to locate the federation representative whose name she knew but whose face she had never seen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFinally the officer says, \u2018Chaplain, this person standing right next to me,\u2019\u201d Kaufman recalled. \u201cAnd the chaplain says, \u2018You know, you are not who I expected.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It wasn\u2019t the first time that Kaufman, 42, had heard such a comment&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jta.org\/2014\/12\/01\/news-opinion\/united-states\/black-jewish-and-challenging-ideas-about-the-face-of-federation\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Black, Jewish and challenging ideas about the face of federation Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA) New York, New York 2014-12-01 Rebecca Spence (JTA) \u2014 When Ilana Kaufman, a program officer at the San Francisco Jewish Community Federation, arrived at San Quentin State Prison for a meeting with the Jewish chaplain at California\u2019s oldest correctional facility, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,3601,8,820,20],"tags":[20560,20557,20558,17769],"class_list":["post-42049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-judaism","category-media-archive","category-religion","category-usa","tag-ilana-kaufman","tag-jewish-telegraphic-agency","tag-jta","tag-rebecca-spence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42049"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42050,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42049\/revisions\/42050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}