With the current events in our country, the JCRC of Southern NJ, with the assistance of other JCRC's and Jewish Federations across the country, have complied resources to aid in conversation and education about topics that are particularly important today. 

To get more involved with our JCRC efforts to engage in this movement should email        Sabrina Spector, JCRC Associate Director at sspector@jfedsnj.org.

Educational Resources

• 75 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice
• Anti-Racism Project
• Anti-Racism Resources (T’ruah)
• For our White Friends Desiring to Be Allies by Courtney Ariel (Sojourners*)
• Jenna Arnold’s resources (books and people to follow)
• Resources for White People to Learn and Talk About Race and Racism
• Save the Tears: White Woman’s Guidec by Tatiana Mac
• Sermon:  Confronting Internalized Racism by Rabbi Jen Gubitz
• Showing Up For Racial Justice’s educational toolkits
• The 1619 Project (The New York Times)
• “We Are Not Even in the Same Storm” – Responding Individually and Collective to Racist Violence by Jeannette Mott Oxford (Empower Missouri)
• “Why is this happening?” — an introduction to police brutality from 100 Year Hoodie
• Zinn Education Project’s teaching materials

*Sojourners is a Christian publication but with much to teach to the Jewish community as well

Books

• America's Original Sin: Racism, White Privilege, and the Bridge to a New America by Jim Wallis,
• Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• Beyond Respectability: The Intellectual Thought of Race Women by Brittney C. Cooper
• Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment by Patricia Hill Collins
• Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Brittney C. Cooper
• Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon
• How To Be An Antiracist by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi
• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
• Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson
• My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies by Resmaa Menakem

Books

• So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
• Stamped From the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi
• The Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States by Walter Johnson
• The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander (and Study Guide and Call to Action)
• This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color by Cherríe Moraga (Editor), Gloria Anzaldúa (Editor)
• White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo,
• White Rage The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide by Carol Anderson
• Witnessing Whiteness: The Need to Talk About Race and How to Do It by Shelly Tochluk