Over the past year Congregation Rodef Sholom has been taking steps toward becoming an anti-racist synagogue and the journey continues. Hear from three nationally prominent Jewish racial justice advocates in a panel discussion, moderated by Joanne Greene, that will explore what a truly anti-racist community could look like. The panelists will explore critical conversations about race and racism, inequity within the Jewish community, Jewish allyship, points of intersection and divergence between racism and anti-Semitism, and how the Jewish community is uniquely positioned to address the inherent complexities in these issues. Please join us.  

• Eric Greene is a Los Angeles-based writer and civil rights activist, currently Associate Director for Diversity and Campus Climate in UCLA's Strategic Communications Department. Eric was previously senior policy advisor at the ACLU of Southern California and Southern California and Regional Director for the Progressive Jewish Alliance/Bend the Arc.

• Ginna Green is a strategist, writer, movement-builder, consultant, and Partner and Chief Strategy Officer at  Uprise. A Schusterman Senior Fellow and a Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance Notable Woman, Ginna is also a Fellow at the Kogod Research Center of the Shalom Hartman Institute of North America, and sits on the boards of Bend the Arc, Women’s March, Political Research Associates, the Jews of Color Initiative, Jewish Story Partners and the Jewish Social Justice Roundtable.

• Billy Planer has been in Jewish experiential education for over 35 years and is the Founder/Director of Etgar 36  that takes groups, including our Jewish youth, on Civil Rights journeys in the South.