Racial Justice Past Programs

Selected Committee Events

| 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 |

2020

• 1/14/20 Film discussion: 13th, Ava DuVernay’s award winning 2016 documentary about the U.S. prison system. Potluck dinner, film viewing, and discussion with Rabbi Alfi and confirmation class
• 1/19/20 Mitzvah Day activity: making signs for next day’s MLK, Jr. March for the Dream
• 1/20/20 Congregational participation: MLK, Jr. March for the Dream
• 3/29/20 Book discussion: The Price of Whiteness: Jews, Race, and American Identity by Eric L. Goldstein (Zoom) 
• 5/31/20 Congregational Discussion on ACA 5: Should CBI support this legislation to put repeal of Proposition 209 (1996 ballot measure that banned affirmative action in CA) on the November 2020 Ballot?
• 8/2/20 Book/video discussion: White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo and
  How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi. (Zoom)
• 8/16/20 Article discussion: America, This Is Your Chance, Michelle Alexander’s NY Times Op-Ed, conversation with CBI members and civil rights attorneys Dorothy and Brian Landsberg (Zoom)
• 8/30/20 Discussion: Where Do We Go from Here?
  —an Oprah Winfrey Network Special with Black thought leaders about systemic racism and the current state of America. (Zoom)

2019

• 1/20/19 Mitzvah Day: making signs for next day’s MLK, Jr. March for the Dream
• 1/21/19 March for the Dream: walking together with South Sacramento Christian Center
• 1/27/19 Co-sponsored Rabbi Alfi’s book discussion: Moral Resistance and Spiritual Authority: Our Jewish Obligation to Social Justice
• 2/3/19 Theo Goodwin and panelists:  The Internment of Japanese Americans as Seen Through Jewish Law 
• 2/6/19 H.E.A.T. and Build.Black Panel: Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg, Police Chief Daniel Hahn, ACT Community Organizer Ryan McClinton, CA Urban Partnership President Malaki Seku-Amen, Sierra Health Foundation consultant Tracy Stigler
• 9/8/19 Kick-off for Civil Right Tour Programming: Struggle & Romance in the Civil Rights Movement—Brian and Dorothy Landsberg’s Story
• 9/29/19 Cosponsored Sacramento premiere of award-winning documentary, ALTERNATIVE FACTS: The Lies of Executive Order 9066, panel discussion with filmmaker Jon Osaki and others
• 11/3/19 Film and discussion: The Hate U Give 
• 11/24/19 Book discussion: Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson 
• 12/15/19 Article discussion: The Case for Reparations by Ta-Nehisi Coates, and related articles

2018

• 1/14/18 Mitzvah Day participation: landscaping at Bret Harte Elementary School
• 1/15/18 Congregational participation: MLK, Jr. March for the Dream 
• 3/24/18 Embracing Sacramento Diversity Speaker Series: The Hon. Emily Vasquez, Speaking from the Heart: The Long Journey as an Immigrant Latina in California
• 9/28/18 Drash and oneg sponsorship as lead- up to The New Jim Crow book discussion
• 10/14/18 and 11/18/18 B’nai Israel Reads: Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow book discussion 
• 12/9/18 The New Jim Crow Speaker: Local attorney Keith Staten

2017

• 1/20/17 Scholar in Residence Weekend with Ilana Kaufman, Public Affairs and Civic Engagement Director, Jewish Community Relations Council of the S.F. Bay Area
• 2/4/17 Embracing Sacramento Diversity Speaker Series: Ginger Rutland, Current Political Climate with respect to Minority Communities
• 3/26/17 Embracing Sacramento Diversity Speaker Series:  Eileen Sarasohn, A Jewish Perspective on the History of Japanese Americans in Sacramento
• 9/8/17 Embracing Sacramento Diversity Speaker Series:  Jason Lindo, A Native Hawaiian Living in the Sacramento Diaspora
• 10/8/17 Sukkot Teach-In with Brian Landsberg: The Construction of Race in US Courts and Public Policy 
• 10/29/17 Author Sheryll Cashin: Loving: Interracial Intimacy in America and the Threat to White Supremacy, co-sponsored with Sacramento Faces Race
• 12/9/17 Embracing Sacramento Diversity Speaker Series: Durriya Syed, Insight into Work Within the Interfaith and Muslim Communities