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Elisheva Rishon: A Black Jew Speaks About Her Antisemitic Experiences
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- Опубліковано 14 сер 2024
- We often hear about the racism that Black people in America face but rarely about the antisemitism and racism Black Jews face. In honor of Black History Month, Allison Josephs spoke with Elisheva Rishon, a Black Orthodox Jewish woman on the podcast about her experience in both communities - she’s a part of each one yet an outsider as well. Her mission now is to build bridges between the Black and Jewish communities by promoting awareness, education, and agency on her social media platforms.
Elisheva’s message is: "I have nothing but love for the Jewish American community, the Orthodox Jewish American community and the Black American community. I speak so we can do better in the future"
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Dear Allison, Thank you SO much for this insightful interview and for bringing up this topic. I'm an African-American woman whose parents were converting to Judaism in the late 1950s in New York before I was ever born. And although they divorced before they completed the conversion, since I was 4 years old I was very conscious of G-D's presence. of the things of G-d and of issues concerning the Jewish people. This has never left me I greatly appreciate women like you who help us learn more about the faith and a great variety of issues. Thank you again.Barbara
Amazing interview! Thank you Elisheva for speaking your truth and for Allison for hosting the platform 👏
As an old calendar Orthodox Christian, and as a human being, I loved listening to this. I learned so much. Thank you.
Great interview, Allison...done with much sensitivity, as Elisheva said. Elisheva...you are a VERY special neshama. May HaShem Bless you both!!!
All praise to the GOD OF ABRAHAM ISSAC AND JACOB 💯 blessings. A couple a years ago we thought all Jews were White and now here we are discussing Jews of Color, look at my Abba FATHER at work 😁 isn't this overwhelmingly a beautiful time we live in.
What are Elisheva’s social media links? Allison, if she wants allies on her social media it would help if you would post them.
I appreciate this conversation so much. I lived in NYC during the Crown Heights situation, and it was truly horrible. But nowadays we have antisemitism across the political spectrum, and it’s very scary and upsetting.
BTW I was glad to hear what Elisheva said about Farrakhan. I was so dismayed when he showed up on the stage at Aretha Franklin’s funeral. I was shocked. Then it was in the reporting that Ms. Franklin had befriended him over the years, even though she was raised a strong Christian. I grew up (non-religious) loving Ms. Franklin’s music, and my heart sank when I heard about this. Even Rev. Al Sharpton looked uncomfortable when Mr. Farrakhan sat down next to him on the stage. Well, I’m relieved by Elisheva’s words. Thank you both for this video.
You can tell Allison did not get the “I don’t know her” reference, which gave me a chuckle. Great insights and discussion from Elisheva.
Yeah. Didn’t get that at all 🙈 now that I looked up the slang I do 😅
Great interview. A lot of good insights.
For all of us, Jew and Gentile (in the dictionary sense - look it up), the "situation" is best approached with the realisation that the Jews are collectively a people, a nation, not a race (whatever "race" means), with a spectrum of ethnicities that also covers Jews who are converts. On an individual, spiritual level, Jews run the spectrum of adherents who are orthodox through reform, etc. to those who are secular, and non-believers. To compound matters, there are Zionist and non-Zionist/anti-Zionist Jews and Gentiles who are religious and/or secular, a notion that is up for discussion on another occasion, on another thread.
I would hope that most Jewish people think a yid is a yid and if they're staring its purely out of curiosity and bec black Jews would LOOK different. Cant deny a difference (in looks i mean) and people just stare at ANYTHING different. More of a social skills issue than an issue of racism. Im sure there are exceptions but i hope this would be the case in 90% of situations.
It's amazing that she can laugh about the horrible things people said to her.
That would be too many layers of discrimination for me, but she handled it’ very well.
hi
Elisheva, I would have become your friend.
The fact the title is " Black Jew" shows racism. I do not see any titles saying " White Jew". Stay Blessed
Black Jew isn’t racist. Most jews aren’t Black. Most have some Middle Eastern features.
@@jewinthecity Not saying you are racist, just the fact we don't say "middle eastern Jew or White Jew".
She was specifically speaking about her experiences as a Black person and a Jewish person. We would specify another ethnicity if it was relevant to the topic. And we have spoken about white-passing Jews.