“When I read this article, it was equivalent to someone lighting a match in the middle of a field of high grass,” she said. Sheskin and Dashefsky are also the co-editors of the AJYB, a post they assumed in 2012.Īpril Baskin-a diversity, equity, and inclusion consultant and racial justice director of the Jews of Color Roundtable-told me that the focus on numbers carries a particular sting, as often the first questions Jews of color face when entering new Jewish spaces are “Are you Jewish?” and “How many of you are there?” In addition to the article conjuring a familiar feeling of objectification and the need to justify one’s existence, Baskin says it undermines the practical inroads Jews of color have been making in the organized Jewish world. Sheskin and Arnold Dashefsky dispute recent estimates, widely accepted by the Reform movement, that Jews of color represent at least 12–15% of the American Jewish population, arguing that the percentage “is almost certainly closer to 6 percent.” The article is drawing heightened attention because it is based on a chapter on Jews of color that will be published next month in the American Jewish Year Book (AJYB), a canonical record of major topics of concern to North American Jewish society-including demography, Jewish institutions, and media-which has been published annually since 1899. In their article, “How Many Jews of Color Are There?” published in eJewish Philanthropy, a website that caters to Jewish professionals (and republished in The Forward with the clicky headline addition, “Fewer than you think”), Ira M. The “Jews of Color Count” letter, organized by four Jewish women of color who hold leadership positions at Jewish social justice organizations, criticizes the article for placing “a stronger emphasis on numerical calculations than on communal values” and using “cherry-picked data to build a case for why supporting Jews of Color depends upon a numeric threshold.” MacArthur Foundation, Ford Foundation, Abrams Foundation, Park Foundation, John and Helen Glessner Family Trust, FRONTLINE Journalism Fund with major support from Jon and Jo Ann Hagler, additional support from Charina Endowment Fund.NEARLY 200 AMERICAN JEWISH ORGANIZATIONS, including day schools, federations, and synagogues, have signed on to a letter expressing support for Jews of color, in response to an article published earlier this month by two veteran Jewish scholars that questions the latest estimates of how many nonwhite Jews there are in the United States. Original funding for this program was provided by public television stations, Corporation for Public Broadcasting, John D. George Bush Presidential Library and Museum ![]() SUPREME REVENGE (2019)ĬC BY Image courtesy of University of Virginia Law LibraryĬC BY Image courtesy of Virginia Law Weekly and University of Virginia Law Library SENIOR EDITOR & DIRECTOR OF LOCAL PROJECTSĪ FRONTLINE Production with Kirk Documentary GroupįRONTLINE is a production of GBH and is solely responsible for its content. FOR FRONTLINEĭIGITAL WRITER & AUDIENCE DEVELOPMENT STRATEGISTįRONTLINE/COLUMBIA JOURNALISM SCHOOL FELLOWSHIPSįRONTLINE/NEWMARK JOURNALISM SCHOOL AT CUNY FELLOWSHIPįRONTLINE/FIRELIGHT INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM FELLOWS MacArthur Foundation, Ford Foundation, Abrams Foundation, Park Foundation, John and Helen Glessner Family Trust, FRONTLINE Journalism Fund with major support from Jon and Jo Ann Hagler and additional support from the Charina Endowment Fund. ![]() ![]() Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead Official White House Photo by Andrea Hanks Oliver Contreras/The New York Times/Redux Gabriella Demczuk/Pool/Zuma Press/Newscom SUPREME REVENGE: Battle for the Court (2020)
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