This is a non-exhaustive list of books and articles that can help you understand and combat racism in America and the Orthodox Jewish community today. Please check back often as we continue to update the page.

Books

Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
How Jews Became White Folks by Karen Brodkin
I’m Still Here by Austin Channing Brown
Evicted by Matthew Desmond
Ariel Samson Freelance Rabbi by Rabbi Shais Rishon
Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X and Alex Haley

ME AND WHITE SUPREMACY by Layla Saad

Videos

“How to Deconstruct Racism, one Headline at a Time” by Baratunde Thurston
“How Racism Makes Us Sick” by David R. Williams
“Jews of Color and Joyous Activism!” by April Baskin (Interviewed by Rabbi Shmuly Yanklowitz)

 “White Fragility” by Dr. Robin DiAngelo

Layla F. Saad | Me and White Supremacy

Articles

Race in America Today
“How the GI Bill’s Promise Was Denied to a Million Black WWII Veterans,” by Erin Blakemore:
“A Case for Reparations,” by Ta-Nehisi Coates:
“Ta-Nehisi Coates Revisits the Case for Reparations”
The 1619 Project, by The New York Times
Which People?: How “people of color” evolved from a gesture of solidarity and respect to a cover for avoiding the complexities of race, by Rachelle Hampton

“Witness now, before it is too late” by The Presbyterian Outlook

“There Is No Apolitical Classroom: Resources for Teaching in These Times“ by Standing Committee Against Racism and Bias in the Teaching of English.

“5 Ways White People Can Take Action in Response to White and State-Sanctioned Violence” by Showing Up for Racial Justice

“I Cannot Remain Silent” By The Atlantics Mike Mullen 

“THE USES OF ANGER: WOMEN RESPONDING TO RACISM” by AUDRE LORDE

Black Jews, he says, ‘get traumatized twice.’ To cope, he painted their experience by PJ Grisar

Black People in Jewish Tradition: Eliminating Racism Requires Honesty by Prof. Meylekh (PV) Viswanath

Race in the American Jewish Community
“Jews of Color Have Been Consistently Undercounted by the American Jewish Establishment. Until
Now,” By Ari Feldman
“Black Jews Are Being Chased Out of the Jewish Community by Racism. Here Are Their Stories,” By
Nyla Burton
“The Intersection of Racism and Anti-Semitism,” by Cherie Brown
“Skin in the Game; How Anti-Semitism Animates White Nationalism,” by Eric Ward
“Black Jews Feel ‘Alienated’ by Orthodox Whites after anti-Semitic Attacks” by Doree Lewak

Orthodox Jews against Racism
“Civil Rights and the Dignity of Man,” by Rabbi Ahron Soloveichik
“’ Justice, Justice You Will Pursue?’: Orthodoxy and the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1965,” by Lora Rabin Dagi. Excerpts.
“For Black Orthodox Jews, Constant Racism in Exhausting” by Chava Shervington
 “Rabbi Pinchas Teitz Address on the Polo Grounds to Encourage his Congregants’ Participation in the March on Washington”
“Racism Within the Jewish Community” by Elisheva Rishon
“I’m a white foster parent seeing racism through my black and brown children’s eyes” by Rabbi Dr. Shmuly Yanklowitz.
“Is it Time we Pay Slave Reparations?” by Rabbi Dr. Shmuly Yanklowitz

“Spiritual resistance: Purge your own prejudices” by Rabbi Dr. Shmuly Yanklowitz