Teshuvah & Reparations: A Vision for This Time

with Dr. David Ragland and Rabbi Lynn Gottlieb
Thursday, September 24 @ 6:30pm
co-sponsored by JCCSF, The Truth Telling Project, The Community of Living Traditions, Boston Worker’s Circle, and Tzedek and The Grassroots Reparations Campaign
Tickets
$9 Chochmat members and members of cosponsoring organizations
$18 General Public
Explore the intersection of the ancient Jewish method of atonement in light of the call for reparations as a healing process for the history of anti-blackness with Dr. Dave Ragland and Rabbi Lynn Gottlieb  Jewish spiritual culture contains a mechanism for ongoing repair to help our communities collectively take action to heal wounds and restore equity and peace. We call this teshuvah. The call for reparations is a critical aspect of healing the profound injustice continually perpetrated by a culture of white supremacy upon black people. Learn from two dedicated community organizers what reparations entail when black lives matter.  Ceremony and presentation followed by community break out groups and final reflections.  

Dr. David Ragland is director of the campaign for Truth and Reparations as well as the  co-founder and co-director of the Truth Telling Project, which began in the early days of the Ferguson Uprising to shift the narrative of the protests and police violence. David co-authored of Systemic Humiliation in America and recently published a chapter on Radical Truth Telling and Ferguson in the Handbook on Violence in Education. David was recently inducted into the Martin Luther King Jr. Collegium of Scholars in the International College of Ministers and Laity at Morehouse College.
Rabbi Lynn Gottlieb is director of Youth & Family Programming at Chochmat Halev and board chair of Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity. Lynn works in support of the Campaign for Truth and Reparations and traveled with Dr. Ragland to present a case for Teshuvah and Reparations to Hebrew College.  

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