Nonetheless, I want to be optimistic. I hope that next year the Day to Mark the Departure and Expulsion of Jews from the Arab Countries and Iran (November 30) will be observed in Reform and Liberal synagogues. It’s one of the Report’s recommendations (at p. 41), and I hope it will be followed largely. Because I want to be an optimist.
Indeed, I want to be very optimistic. I hope I won’t be called a racist or an Islamophobe like when I dared to suggest such an observance.
I want to be a super-optimist. Perhaps one day, Reform and Progressive Jews will even have a prayer to recite on November 30, to pay honour to the memory of the Jewish communities from Arab Countries. After all, why commemorate the Kristallnacht and not the Farhud? Is the blood of Iraki Jews less red than the German Jews’?
Taskforce proposals aim to end ‘rut of inaction’ over Church of England racism April 22 2021, 12.07am
The Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby said five of the recommendations would be implemented immediately (Steve Parsons/PA)
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A failure to tackle racism in the Church of England could be the “last straw for many, that the Church is not serious about racial sin”, a taskforce has warned.
The Archbishops’ Anti-Racism Taskforce has made 47 proposals to tackle institutional racism and improve diversity in an attempt to end a “rut of inaction” spanning several decades.
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