February 11 @ 11:00 am - 12:00 pm Free
S.F.-based Jewish Community Federation presents “Changing the System? Jewish Philanthropy, Racial Justice and What We Need to Know” with professor Marc Dollinger, Jews of color activist Ilana Kaufman, Weinberg board member Paula Pretlow and Jim Joseph president Barry Finestone talking about philanthropic work through a lens of racial equity. Free, with registration.Event Website
Before Covid-19, the Day of Philanthropy was just that a day. Now, with the S.F.-based Jewish Community Federation’s annual event coming around during the pandemic, why not expand it to several days? Why not put it online and open it up to anyone? Why not make it free?
Organizers answered those questions with a resounding “Sure, why not?”
So this year, the Day of Philanthropy will consist of seven separate online events running from January through March, and each will indeed be free to one and all.
The “Day of Philanthropy Festival” series will kick off Jan. 15 with a presentation from epidemiologist Dr. Larry Brilliant on maximizing community resilience during the pandemic, and it will end March 10 with a keynote speech from former Rockefeller Foundation president Judith Rodin on building a more just world through philanthropy.
A toxic race curriculum has no place in Jewish schools
January 8, 2021
(JNS) Just how far are Jewish institutions willing to go to accommodate the principles of critical race theory and its “cancel culture” view of American and Jewish history? In the case of Brandeis University Press, even that respected liberal institution realizes that identifying American Jewish life as part of the fabric of institutional racism should not go unquestioned. A controversy over the editors of that publishing house’s refusal to include an essay glorifying the Black Lives Matter movement by a historian who claims that Jews are guilty of taking part in “white supremac.
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Let’s set aside the larger question of which members of the Jewish community identify as white, and even accept for a moment that it could be academically or philosophically justified to link the term “white supremacy” with the American Jewish experience. I would still believe this term does nothing to advance the practical cause of engaging Jews in eradicating structural racism from American life.
According to Encyclopædia Britannica, “the term white supremacist has been used to describe some groups espousing ultranationalist, racist, or fascist doctrines. White supremacist groups often have relied on violence to achieve their goals.”
But we don’t need reference books to know that the phrase “white supremacy” is sinister.