Racism

Rabbi Amy Eilberg

Apr 193 min read

Every Year We Must See Ourselves as if We Were There

As Jews, we must remember that we were slaves in Egypt. As Americans, we a part of the chain of history that includes the horrors of slavery

Rabbi Amy Eilberg

Mar 281 min read

Reflections on the Conservative/Masorti Racial Justice Pilgrimage

Leaders of the Conservative Movement reflect on our recent Racial Justice Pilgrimage

Rabbi Amy Eilberg

Sep 4, 20231 min read

Jewish Wisdom on Reparations and Teshuvah

(Image from KQED) I'm proud to say that I recently published a piece on Jewish wisdom on reparations, with reference to the work of the...

Rabbi Amy Eilberg

Jun 21, 20224 min read

The Torah and Poor People

The Rev. William Barber (left) and the Rev. Liz Theoharis, co-chairs of the Poor People's Campaign, lead a demonstration outside the U.S....

Rabbi Amy Eilberg

Apr 7, 20223 min read

The Four Children and Racial Justice

The Maggid section of the Haggadah imagines four distinct children, each with their own response to the Passover story. Many of us have...

Rabbi Amy Eilberg

Sep 24, 20203 min read

Who by Virus and Who by Fire?

I’m so grateful that I don’t read the words of the machzor (High Holiday prayerbook) literally. If I believed that there were an...

Rabbi Amy Eilberg

Aug 2, 20202 min read

The Days of Awe are Here

Not to worry. Rosh Hashana does not begin until the evening of September 18th. There’s still time to prepare. But we have been living...

Rabbi Amy Eilberg

Jun 12, 20203 min read

Sound the Trumpets of Justice for All

I can only hope that the agony of these weeks will serve as a sound of the trumpets, awakening our nation to the institutional racism.

Rabbi Amy Eilberg

Oct 19, 20183 min read

Reeling from my journey into America's ugly past

I just returned from a sacred pilgrimage. The place was the new National Memorial of Peace and Justice and The Legacy Museum in...

Rabbi Amy Eilberg