YOM KIPPUR AFTERNOON PROGRAM    (Watch on YouTube)

3:40 pm to 4:00 pm - Why BLM Should Matter to Jews - Moriyah Webster

“We are called to not stand idly by while the blood of our neighbor is shed.” (Lev 19:16)
For too long this has been true only when the neighbor is White, but it must be just as true for every Black neighbor.

4:00 pm to 5:00 pm - Discrimination in New Jersey: Perspectives From the Black, Latinx, and Indigenous Communities (a roundtable)

Black people are not the only ones who are and have been oppressed by systemic racism in New Jersey. This program broadens the discussion by including the experience of Latinx and Indigenous people. Each speaker will discuss issues their communities have faced and are facing in New Jersey, including current struggles that congregants might be interested to learn about and perhaps participate in.

ROUNDTABLE SPEAKERS:
Lawrence Hamm, the Chairman of the People's Organization for Progress (POP), has been involved in a wide-range of civil rights work, including a sharp focus on police misconduct, since Mayor Gibson appointed him (as the youngest member ever) to serve on the Newark Board of Education.

Brenda Valladares is a Community Organizer for Movimiento Cosecha. She advocates for both documented and undocumented immigrants and recently was part of the successful multi-year effort to obtain New Jersey driver's licenses for undocumented people.

Owl, a member of the Ramapough Lenape Nation, serves as a client representative and advisor for the Lenape Nation in its litigation for environmental justice with respect to a Superfund site in Ringwood and for freedom to practice their traditional religion against strong local opposition supported by Mahwah Township.

Bennet Zurofsky, a member of Oheb Shalom for thirty-one years, whose law practice is devoted to the representation of unions, employees, and the Constitution, will be the moderator.

Oheb Shalom is presenting this program in accord with the themes of the traditional Martyrology which reminds us that although we have often suffered persecution for our Faith, our Faith has also been the key to the survival of the Jewish people. At Oheb, the Martyrology not only acknowledges the continuing persecution of Jews but also the continuing persecution of others simply because of their "otherness."