Project Shema: Support for Jewish Leaders, Understanding and Responding to Anti-Jewish Ideas
March 12 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm EDT
This session will NOT be recorded. Please make every effort to attend. Open to members in good standing of the ACC and GTM.
The debate over Israel and Palestine has grown more intense. At the same time, rising antisemitism globally has understandably elevated fears inside the American Jewish community, making these conversations even more complicated.
Project Shema trains and supports the Jewish community to nurture compassion for Jews and disrupt the spread of anti-Jewish ideas which can emerge even in well-intentioned conversations about Israel and Palestine. We want to ensure that important conversations around Palestinian justice do not close space for empathy with the Jewish people. Even if unintentional, rhetoric that may demonize or dehumanize Jews in Israel or the Disaspora has the potential to erode individual and/or collective Jewish safety. We believe it’s possible and necessary to hold space for the past and present trauma of Palestinians and the Jewish people.
