Symposium video archives

This session unpacks the complexity of identifying as Jewish at the present moment in the United States, and specifically at CSU. Introducing multiple perspectives from Arab, African, and European American Jews, we aim to sketch the dynamic but fragile status of American Jewish identities and discuss experiences of pride, fear, shame, community, and longing unique to our membership in the CSU community and Fort Collins, and broadly.

Multiple issues and perspectives will be discussed, such as intersectionality and simultaneity, negotiating if, when, and how to reveal Jewish identities, acceptance and neglect, feeling invisible, the status of Jews of Color, white privileges, intergenerational trauma, myths and stereotypes, and Judaism as religion vs. ethnicity and culture.