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Our Voices: Being Black & Jewish
In this episode, Brandon Hayes interviews Marc Merriweather, Moriyah Webster, Yehudah Webster, and Shoshana Brown to discuss their insights into and experiences with being both Black and Jewish. They specifically talk about their commitment to their faith and how it intersects with their race. Through often frank conversations about their shared identity, they also challenge assumptions that all Jewish people are white and all Black people are Christian or Muslim.
Marc Merriweather
Marc Merriweather is a South Orange resident. Marc is an attorney. He and his wife have two boys (ages 15 and 12) and a dog. They nurture a multi-cultural home. Marc strongly identifies as a biracial Jew. His mother is white and his father is black. His parents are both Jewish and raised Marc and his sisters in a Jewish home.'
Moriyah Webster
Moriyah Webster has been a passionate student and teacher of Torah for more than 30 years. His name Moriyah means, “My teacher is Yah” and reflects his desire to point everyone to Yah as the true teacher. Prior to embracing his Jewish identity, he earned a BA in Theology at Ambassador University and served as a Pastor for 10 years in the USA, Guyana, Suriname, and the Caribbean. After converting to Judaism, Moriyah was a member of Congregation Oheb Shalom for about 15 years where he served in a number of roles including serving as a vice president, a regular Torah reader, leader of high holiday services, and teacher at the Hebrew School. Moriyah works full-time in technology in the financial industry.
Yehudah Webster
Yehudah is passionate about ensuring the Jewish community’s commitment to the fight for racial justice and collective liberation. As a community organizer for Jews for Racial & Economic Justice (JFREJ), Yehudah supports JFREJ’s police accountability and transformative justice campaigns through grassroots efforts that include lobbying for legislative reform. Yehudah has worked on establishing a national support network for JOCs through his JFREJ leadership, working to provide the much needed institutional support marginalized Jewish communities of color need and most recently co-founding Ammud: The Jews of Color Torah Academy. He is a graduate of JFREJ’s Grace Paley Organizing Fellowship and Bend the Arc’s Selah Leadership Program.
Shoshana Brown
Shoshana Brown is a Black mixed-race, Jewish, femme. They are an organizer, healer, educator, and social worker. Organizing within the Jews of Color community since 2005, they are the co-founder of the Black Jewish Liberation Collective.
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By South Orange VillageIn this episode, Brandon Hayes interviews Marc Merriweather, Moriyah Webster, Yehudah Webster, and Shoshana Brown to discuss their insights into and experiences with being both Black and Jewish. They specifically talk about their commitment to their faith and how it intersects with their race. Through often frank conversations about their shared identity, they also challenge assumptions that all Jewish people are white and all Black people are Christian or Muslim.
Marc Merriweather
Marc Merriweather is a South Orange resident. Marc is an attorney. He and his wife have two boys (ages 15 and 12) and a dog. They nurture a multi-cultural home. Marc strongly identifies as a biracial Jew. His mother is white and his father is black. His parents are both Jewish and raised Marc and his sisters in a Jewish home.'
Moriyah Webster
Moriyah Webster has been a passionate student and teacher of Torah for more than 30 years. His name Moriyah means, “My teacher is Yah” and reflects his desire to point everyone to Yah as the true teacher. Prior to embracing his Jewish identity, he earned a BA in Theology at Ambassador University and served as a Pastor for 10 years in the USA, Guyana, Suriname, and the Caribbean. After converting to Judaism, Moriyah was a member of Congregation Oheb Shalom for about 15 years where he served in a number of roles including serving as a vice president, a regular Torah reader, leader of high holiday services, and teacher at the Hebrew School. Moriyah works full-time in technology in the financial industry.
Yehudah Webster
Yehudah is passionate about ensuring the Jewish community’s commitment to the fight for racial justice and collective liberation. As a community organizer for Jews for Racial & Economic Justice (JFREJ), Yehudah supports JFREJ’s police accountability and transformative justice campaigns through grassroots efforts that include lobbying for legislative reform. Yehudah has worked on establishing a national support network for JOCs through his JFREJ leadership, working to provide the much needed institutional support marginalized Jewish communities of color need and most recently co-founding Ammud: The Jews of Color Torah Academy. He is a graduate of JFREJ’s Grace Paley Organizing Fellowship and Bend the Arc’s Selah Leadership Program.
Shoshana Brown
Shoshana Brown is a Black mixed-race, Jewish, femme. They are an organizer, healer, educator, and social worker. Organizing within the Jews of Color community since 2005, they are the co-founder of the Black Jewish Liberation Collective.