Sunday, March 7th | 5–6:30 p.m. | ONLINE
In the 11th annual JSSJ Social Justice Lecture, Black Jewish activist and rabbinical student Tamar Manasseh uses her experience combating gun violence with Mothers Against Senseless Killing (MASK), an organization she founded in Chicago, to address the need for a new paradigm connecting the Black and Jewish communities. Manasseh will address how Black Jews are the bridge between these two communities and are the key to establishing a new alliance and an enduring partnership that will better serve the needs of both communities. While focusing on MASK’s efforts to curb gun violence in Chicago, Manasseh will also explore her own complex identity and motivations as a person who is Jewish and Black, and how these intersecting identities offer her a road map for addressing one of America’s most urgent crises.
