Resources
Racial Justice
Guide to Respectful Conversations
This guide provides tools to utilize when facilitating a space for difficult conversations surrounding identity.
“The first step in speaking about race and racism, and recognizing how it plays a role in our own lives and communities, is to talk about it openly and honestly.” In this resource you will find tips and tricks for facilitating difficult conversations. Whether you are discussing racial justice, or other potentially uncomfortable conversations surrounding class, gender, etc., you can utilize this resource to set ground rules and be aware of the vulnerability in which you and your participants are sharing.
Racial Justice
Guide to Respectful Conversations
This guide provides tools to utilize when facilitating a space for difficult conversations surrounding identity.
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Gender Justice
Women Fighting for Sustainability: Examining Grassroots Agricultural Solutions
Explore concepts of land ownership and food insecurity through the grassroots organizing of prominent female figures.
How do you create a system of change in your society? Explore the actions of three prominent female figures who, through grassroots organizing, created systems to address food insecurity in their communities. This guide can be utilized either in conversation on the subject of land ownership and food insecurity, or through food justice-oriented service work.
Food Justice
Racial Justice
Bread of Affliction: Matzah, Hunger, and Race
This Passover, utilize this conversation guide to explore the relationship between vulnerable communities and lack of access to nutritious food.
Food Justice
Bread of Affliction: Matzah, Hunger, and Race
This Passover, utilize this conversation guide to explore the relationship between vulnerable communities and lack of access to nutritious food.
“The barriers to buying, cooking, and eating healthy foods are real.” This Passover dinner conversation guide engages the oppression of the Israelites in the book of Exodus as a launchpad to discuss a lack of access to healthy and sustainable foods in modern communities. Utilize this guide in a group setting to discuss and explore your, and your community’s, relationship to food insecurity while considering the Passover season as an invitation to think about those experiencing food insecurity today.
This guide was created in partnership with Hazon, dedicated to creating healthier and more sustainable communities in the Jewish world and beyond.
Food Justice
Sustainability
A Plateful of Grateful
Food waste is vast in our society. This Thanksgiving, consider engaging in conversation surrounding food waste reduction.
Food Justice
A Plateful of Grateful
Food waste is vast in our society. This Thanksgiving, consider engaging in conversation surrounding food waste reduction.
“According to the United Nations, if we recover all the food that is lost or wasted, we will have enough to feed all those who are hungry, four times over.” We often do not think about how much food is wasted on a daily basis in our country. This Thanksgiving conversation guide provides the opportunity to explore the relationship between society and the food which we do and do not consume.
This guide was created in partnership with 412 Food Rescue.
Racial Justice
Guide to Respectful Conversations
This guide provides tools to utilize when facilitating a space for difficult conversations surrounding identity.
“The first step in speaking about race and racism, and recognizing how it plays a role in our own lives and communities, is to talk about it openly and honestly.” In this resource you will find tips and tricks for facilitating difficult conversations. Whether you are discussing racial justice, or other potentially uncomfortable conversations surrounding class, gender, etc., you can utilize this resource to set ground rules and be aware of the vulnerability in which you and your participants are sharing.
Racial Justice
The Four People
Explore concepts tangential to our liberation story, and engage in focused conversations surrounding racial equity.
Racial Justice
The Four People
Explore concepts tangential to our liberation story, and engage in focused conversations surrounding racial equity.
“As we learn in our Passover retelling, the journey toward liberation and equity can be difficult to map out.” In this guide, you will find information on racial justice and Passover. Are you hoping to explore concepts tangential to our liberation story and engage in deep conversations this Passover season? This supplementary “Four People” Haggadah insert is best utilized as a dinner conversation guide.
This guide was created in partnership with the Jewish Multiracial Network.
Racial Justice
Racial and Ethnic Diversity in the Jewish Community
Facilitating vulnerable conversations can be difficult–and requires practice. Here are some tips to create a brave space in which valuable discussion can take place.
“The American Jewish community is estranged from its own rich history of Jewish diversity.” Through this dinner conversation guide, explore the stories of Jews from various backgrounds, learn about various community members’ stories, and engage in conversations surrounding the importance of diverse voices at our table and in our community.
This guide was created in partnership with Be’chol Lashon, an organization that grows and strengthens the Jewish people through racial, ethnic, and cultural inclusiveness.
Civic Engagement
Racial Justice
Jews and the Civil Rights Movement
Jewish people were heavily represented in the individuals that participated in the Civil Rights Movement, what effect did this have?
Racial Justice
Jews and the Civil Rights Movement
Jewish people were heavily represented in the individuals that participated in the Civil Rights Movement, what effect did this have?
The narrative of being slaves in Egypt was one prominently referenced as theJewish obligation for involvement in the Civil Rights Movement. How and where did Jewish people show up during this time, and what effect did it have on both the Black and Jewish communities? This Turn the Tables guide, intended to be utilized in chevruta (partnered learning), walks you through various points of view on this relationship. Explore your relationship to Black liberation through various narratives and discussions.
Food Justice
Racial Justice
Racial and Food Justice
You are inextricably connected to the food system, and so you should share responsibility for helping to make the system just.
Food Justice
Racial and Food Justice
You are inextricably connected to the food system, and so you should share responsibility for helping to make the system just.
What is your relationship to the food that you eat? Do you know who grew it and where? Are you familiar with the process it took to produce this item? We love food, but we tend to not know much about it. Many are fortunate to not worry about where our next meal will come from, if it fits our dietary restrictions, or if it is culturally appropriate. Simultaneously, many do not have access to the foods that they need. Through this Turn the Tables guide, learn the importance of food justice and its innate connection to racial justice.