(Jewish Group) Reform Jewish movement votes to support reparations for African-Americans
The Reform movement, the country’s largest Jewish denomination, declared its support for reparations for African-Americans at its biennial conference.
The resolution, which was approved Friday by voice vote at the 5,000-person gathering of the Union for Reform Judaism, calls for “a federal commission to study and develop proposals for reparations to redress the historic and continuing effects of slavery and subsequent systemic racial, societal, and economic discrimination against Black Americans.”
It said that reparations can take the form of anything from an expression of remorse to education to monetary compensation.
Reform leaders painted the resolution as the next step in the movement’s historical support for civil rights. The movement passed its first resolution in support of civil rights in 1950 and has passed four more. Two came in the past five years, addressing reforms to the way law enforcement treats African-Americans, and racial inequities within the Reform movement.
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