Bentley Addison

Bentley Addison December 28, 2018
I’ve never felt fully welcome in Jewish spaces. I’ve never felt like I truly belonged. This is common among Black Jews.

There’s a subset of us that just wish to proceed in the Jewish world unbothered, and to continue our Jewish lives as we see fit, apart from the assumptions and stereotypes assigned to us — you know, the conversations about conversion, the assumptions that we lack Jewish knowledge, or that we’re not Jewish at all.

Even deeper than that is the desire on our part for white Jews to finally figure out this race thing.

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