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Juneteenth Resource List 2022

EVENTS

• Black Jewish Liberation Collective’s Juneteenth 2022: Art as Freedom
  • June 19, 2022, 7pm ET

• Be’chol Lashon’s Juneteenth Kabbalat Shabbat
  • June 17, 2022, 6pm-9:30pm ET

• Kol Hapanim and AJOCC’s Juneteenth Kabbalat Shabbat
  • June 17, 2022, 7pm ET

• Repair the World at JCC Harlem, Pre Juneteenth Happy Hour Arts Celebration
  • June 16, 2022, register to receive details

READINGS AND RESOURCES

• A Conservative Juneteenth Hagaddah, USCJ, 2022

• What Juneteenth Means to My Black Jewish Family. Marcella White-Campbell, 2020

• Why Juneteenth—Which Marks the End of Slavery—Should be a Jewish Holiday. Tema Smith, 2019

• Juneteenth Offers Us a Day for Celebration, Reflection, and Healing. Rabbi Sandra Lawson, 2019

• ‘Juneteenth this year is a whole new ballgame’—9 Black Jews on the holiday of liberation. 2020

• What is Juneteenth to a Black Jew. Chris Harrison. 2020, updated 2021

• This Juneteenth, a ‘Kaddish for Black Lives’. 2020

• Video compilation from JFREJ Juneteenth Seder