Are Jews an Ethnic Group?

Are Jews an Ethnic Group?

What California’s new law means for Jews in the Golden State and beyond

Featuring

David Bocarsly, Jewish CaliforniaKeith Feldman, UC BerkeleyAri Y. Kelman, StanfordRabbi Tarlan Rabizadeh, American Jewish UniversityAliya Saperstein, StanfordModerated by Asaf Elia-Shalev, J. The Jewish News of Northern California

About the conversation

American Jews have long been irked by their absence from government forms, and just as wary of any state effort to decide who is Jewish and who is not. California’s newly signed SB 1387 lets Jews identify themselves as Jewish when answering questions about ethnicity. Is this good for the Jews of California, or will there be unintended consequences? And how are Jews feeling about it?

Join a conversation with the leader of the coalition that sponsored the bill, a sociologist who studies how census questions shape who gets counted, a rabbi who leads Jewish engagement at American Jewish University, and scholars who are grappling with the implications of this change for Jews in California.

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J. The Jewish News of Northern California · New Lehrhaus · Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity · Concentration in Education and Jewish Studies