Meeting & Meal w/ Yavilah McCoy: Educator, Activist, Spiritual Teacher, and a Jewish Woman of Color

You’re invited to attend Yavilah McCoy’s lecture “Tangled Up in Anti-Semitism” taking place at the Jewish Community Center on Thursday, March 26. We often think of anti-Semitism as a discrete phenomenon that singles out Jews as objects of hatred. But what if other forms of hatred were tangled up in anti-Semitism? What if we as Jews — a diverse group ourselves — came to see how various forms of hatred — racism, misogyny, homophobia, to name a few — draw on similar sources of hatred as that which anti-Semitism draws?

In her lecture, McCoy will talk about what is required of us as a Jewish community to grow the relationships and the understandings that create beloved community spaces: where do we all feel safe and welcome? Join Yavilah McCoy for a discussion about diversity, equity, and inclusion in the Jewish community and beyond.

Yavilah McCoy is the CEO and Executive Director of DIMENSIONS Inc. in Boston.  She has spent the past 20 years working extensively in multi-faith communities and partnering specifically with the Jewish community to engage issues of diversity, equity and inclusion.  Yavilah is an educator, activist and spiritual teacher.  She is a Jewish woman and a person of color and has designed numerous tools and methods that enable students and educators to be better citizens of the world through exploring differences and reaching for tangible solutions in allied engagement.