This week, the Jews of Color Initiative published Beyond the Count: Perspectives and Lived Experiences of Jews of Color. You can read it at https://jewsofcolorinitiative.
“I am often treated like a person just learning about Judaism instead of a Jew who is active in many communities. I went to Shabbat services recently, and a woman came up to me and said, without introducing herself, ‘Shabbat Shalom. So are you here for a religion class? Did you convert?’”
A CBI discussion of Beyond the Count is being planned. If you want to help, please contact Programming Committee co-chair Emily Weiner.
Professor Marc Dollinger’s talk on Jews and the Civil Rights Movement was well-received by CBI congregants on July 1. If you missed it, you can access 
The first session, on August 16, will be led by Dr. Sarah Zarrow, Assistant Professor of History at WWU, who holds an endowed chair in Jewish History at Western. Professor Dollinger will tell about the back story during his session on August 25. Both sessions are at 7 p.m.
Sunday, April 4 at 10 a.m. Anat Hoffman, executive director of the Israel Religious Action Center, spoke with Congregation Beth Israel via Zoom about the fight for gender equality in Israeli society. Hoffman founded and has led the advocacy organization Women of the Wall for the past three decades. Her talk to CBI is titled, “The Cracks in the Wall Let the Light In: The Battle for Equal Rights at the Western Wall.” For more information about Anat Hoffman and her work, see the front page article in the 
