Unruly
A social and racial justice blog created by and for Jews of Color and Sephardi/Mizrahi Jews and in solidarity with Palestinian liberation and other struggles against state violenceI wrote that Rosh Hashanah poem
By Danny Bryck The chill breaks through in earnest It rains The trees hint a few leaves yellowish as if to say, “On the other hand...” My facebook feed fills up with pomegranates My mind makes the same little joke to itself, about what if 5779 could be like 1979...
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Black on Black
By Khen Elmaleh First published in Hebrew in Litvin, E.: The Heart is a Lonely Singer: Mizrachi Music in Israel, exhibition catalogue, 2017, Ashdod Museum of Art, Israel. English Translation by Tom Pessah. Let’s start with some fair disclosure: I did not grow up with...
read moreLesley Williams Speech in Solidarity with African Asylum Seekers in Israel
By Lesley Williams This is the text of a speech given in front of the Rwandan consulate in Chicago From the book of Esther: : 'If I have found favour in thy sight, O king, and if it please the king, let my life be given me at my petition, and my people at my request...
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Palestinian Activist Statement in Solidarity with African Asylum Seekers in Israel
This is a Translation of a statement by Palestinian activists originally posted to Facebook by Marzuq Al Halabi: Statement on the refugee issue in Israel : No to deporting refugees and migrants by force and yes to protecting them and respecting their rights and...
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Stop Deportations and Grant Asylum to African Refugees In Israel
>>>>>Click here to sign: Stop Deportations and Grant Asylum to African Refugees In Israel Since 2006, about 60,000 African refugees fleeing persecution in Eritrea and Sudan have come to Israel. Rather than granting them refugee status as is required by international...
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Confronting Whiteness, Zionism, and the Bogeyman of “Left Antisemitism”
By Mark Tseng-Putterman Remarks from JVP’s “Not A Conflict” mini-conference (November 13, 2017), in response to the question: How do you see fights against antisemitism connected to or in tension with other fights for racial justice and against Islamophobia? I want to...
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Tai: A Yom Kippur Sermon By Aurora Levins Morales
Tai: A Yom Kippur Sermon By Aurora Levins Morales 5778/2017 [The theme of Kehilla Community Synagogue’s High Holy Days was “spiritual audacity” drawn from these words by Abraham Joshua Heschel, written in 1963: “The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual...
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Love and Hate: A Palestinian’s personal testimony of finding home
(Love & hate) By Anonymous My story starts in a refugee camp outside my land. I never had friends from childhood because I moved a lot from place to place. I read a lot of books about our revolution - but there were just two words that stuck in my head: Love & Hate....
read more Declaración de apoyo al pueblo Maya de San Juan La Laguna / Statement of Support for the Maya People of San Juan La Laguna
English translation follows Spanish statement La traducción al inglés a continuación del texto en español #SoberaniaMayaNoEsAntisemitismo #MayanSovereigntyIsNotAntisemitism Declaración de apoyo al pueblo Maya de San Juan La Laguna Recientemente nos hemos enterado,...
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White Jews: Deal with Your Privilege and Call Out Jewish Support for White Supremacy
By Lesley Williams The following piece is the text of a speech by Lesley Williams at the Stephen Douglas Monument, on behalf of the Resists, Reimagine, Rebuild Coalition, August 19th 2017. It was orginally posted on her blog The Cranky Librarian and is posted here...
read more Statement in Support of Professor Rabab Abdulhadi Against Censorship Campaigns
The Jews of Color, Sephardi and Mizrahi Caucus working in partnership with Jewish Voice for Peace emphatically supports Professor Rabab Abdulhadi. Prof. Rabab Abdulhadi is a prolific scholar-activist and has been a leader in Ethnic Studies, founding the Arab and...
read more Jews of Color and Sephardi/Mizrahi Caucus Statement in Support of 1,500 Palestinian Prisoners on Hunger Strike
On the 69th anniversary of the Nakba, the Jews of Color and Sephardi/Mizrahi Caucus organized in partnership with Jewish Voice for Peace is in solidarity with 1,500+ Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike in Israeli prisons. We echo their demands for adequate medical...
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By Aurora Levins Morales
Say these words when you lie down and when you rise up,
when you go out and when you return. In times of mourning
and in times of joy. Inscribe them on your doorposts,
embroider them on your garments, tattoo them on your shoulders,
Mango Charoset Recipe Speaks to the Tangled Histories of Jews of Color in the Americas
By Aurora Levins Morales How We Eat (from Masa Ball Soup) Inca potatoes are made into Indian curry, German potato salad, Irish leek soup, and Ashkenazi latkes. Chinese oranges grown in Spanish groves become English marmalade. California farms grow kiwi from northern...
read more This Is How I Spell ‘Unruly’
By Danny Bryck The text is a combination of English and Hebrew, in Solitreo lettering, and reads "Unruly" (the name of this blog) and intertwined below it, "Lo Nechmadot." It was designed originally as one half of a T shirt for the Jews of Color and Sephardi/Mizrahi...
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Praying at The Wailing Wall
By Sydney Levy Last month, I found myself praying at the Wailing Wall -- but I was not in Jerusalem. I was at the wall that separates San Diego from Tijuana. It is a metal structure that extends eastward as far as the eye can see into the horizon, and that dips...
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From Blackface to Elor Azaria; the Jewish Community Must Reject Racist Purim Costumes
By Sydney Levy Growing up as a Jewish kid in Venezuela, Purim was one of the many calendar dates that separated us from the non-Jewish population. The rest of the country dressed up for Carnaval, and a few weeks later we dressed up for Jewish Carnaval, err...Purim. As...
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More than a Feeling: Jews and Whiteness in Trump’s America
By Mark Tseng-Putterman A few weeks after the election, I had dinner at my grandparents’ house. I typically associate my visits to their home with raucous family gatherings of a cross-section of our grandparents’ six children and twenty-odd grandkids. But this was an...
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