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Juneteenth Resource List 2023

EVENTS

• The Space Between: Jewish Wisdom from Jews of Color to Commemorate Juneteenth, Monday, June 12, 2023, 7:30-8:30pm ET. Register at bit.ly/JOCBetween

• Amplifying Afro-Jewtino Voices: A Juneteenth Commemoration, Thursday, June 15, 2023, 10am PT, IG live. No registration required. Follow @jewtinayco.

• Achim Sheli Juneteenth Jewbilee, in-person event at Congregation Beth El in Voorhees, NY, Monday, June 19, 2023, 6-9pm ET, $19/person. Register here.

• We Are Family: JOCISM Shabbaton, Jews of Color Mishpacha Project. LAST DAY TO REGISTER: JUNE 9, 2023. Event takes place June 16-18, 2023, in-person at the Pearlstone Retreat Center, Reisterstown, MD.

READINGS AND RESOURCES

• On this Juneteenth, Black Jewish Liberation Collective, 2023

• Not Just a Second Passover: Juneteenth’s Unfinished Journey, Robin Washington, 2023

• A Conservative Juneteenth Hagaddah, USCJ, 2022

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

• Juneteenth Playlist, Rabbi Sandra Lawson

• 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

• Juneteenth Resources, Be’chol Lashon