Building black and JewishBeloved Community

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From Conversation to Action
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Partnership in Criminal Justice Reform

In response to the murder of George Floyd, leaders of Seattle’s Black faith community identified three keys to Black advancement: criminal justice reform, economic opportunity and education. We see all three as connected.

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A Partnership in Economic Opportunity
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The Nehemiah Initiative

Black leaders have identified housing discrimination as a key source of the wealth gap between Blacks and Whites in America.

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To be in communion with people from Islam, Jewish, and Christian faiths has the potential to step into our brave space to unravel, expose and embrace our contradictions, as we bring committed people together, to create a better understanding of justice , and provide an opportunity to develop coalitions across significant differences in order to imagine , practice and create change together especially for restorative and transformative justice. This is the stuff necessary to build a beloved community across faiths.
Gilda Sheppard
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I have been inspired by the on-going dialogue between Black and Jewish clergy here in Seattle…Together we have been to the top of the Mountain of God.
Rabbi James Mirel
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