{"id":46769,"date":"2016-04-28T19:36:49","date_gmt":"2016-04-28T19:36:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=46769"},"modified":"2016-11-16T23:22:45","modified_gmt":"2016-11-16T23:22:45","slug":"diversity-wont-challenge-jewrys-role-in-white-supremacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=46769","title":{"rendered":"\u201cDiversity\u201d Won\u2019t Challenge Jewry\u2019s Role in White Supremacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jewschool.com\/2016\/04\/76551\/diversity-wont-challenge-jewrys-role-in-white-supremacy\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>\u201cDiversity\u201d Won\u2019t Challenge Jewry\u2019s Role in White Supremacy<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jewschool.com\" target=\"_blank\">Jewschool: Progressive Jews &amp; Views<\/a><br \/>\n2016-04-27<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tsengputterman\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Mark Tseng Putterman<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<em>New York, New York<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In addition to my own mother, \u201cLinda\u201d was the only other Asian American woman at the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Reform_Judaism\" target=\"_blank\">Reform<\/a> synagogue I grew up attending. It was a friendly, liberal, and white Jewish space in our affluent <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_England\" target=\"_blank\">New England<\/a> suburb, a space where I often felt welcome while always, at some level, aware that I could count the number of people of color in our synagogue on one hand. That didn\u2019t stop my indomitable mother from becoming more and more invested in our Jewish community. But amidst her drive and commitment to her adopted community was a twinge of cynicism: when she became our temple\u2019s president, she joked that she only did it so that people would finally stop confusing her with Linda.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder \u2014 would our temple peers have been better able to decipher my mother\u2019s \u201cforeign\u201d face\u00a0 if there were simply more of us? Would a more diverse congregation have prepared our white, liberal, and colorblind community to address the realities of racism for Jewish youth of color like myself? To prepare my youth leader to unpack why <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/El_Al\" target=\"_blank\">El Al<\/a> security singled me out for questioning during my 9th grade trip to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Israel\" target=\"_blank\">Israel<\/a>? Or to provide my white Jewish peer with the language with which to challenge the Hasidic man who questioned her of my presence on our flight there?&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"https:\/\/jewschool.com\/2016\/04\/76551\/diversity-wont-challenge-jewrys-role-in-white-supremacy\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cDiversity\u201d Won\u2019t Challenge Jewry\u2019s Role in White Supremacy Jewschool: Progressive Jews &amp; Views 2016-04-27 Mark Tseng Putterman New York, New York In addition to my own mother, \u201cLinda\u201d was the only other Asian American woman at the Reform synagogue I grew up attending. It was a friendly, liberal, and white Jewish space in our affluent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16,3601,8,820,23674,20],"tags":[23676,23675,23677],"class_list":["post-46769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-asia","category-judaism","category-media-archive","category-religion","category-social-justice","category-usa","tag-jewschool","tag-jewschool-progressive-jews-views","tag-mark-tseng-putterman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46769","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=46769"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46770,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46769\/revisions\/46770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}