Sandra Lawson
A pioneering Shabbat service marks a new way to observe Jewish Juneteenth
By Yonat Shimron — June 19, 2022
(RNS) —The Juneteenth Kabbalat Shabbat was the first Jewish service organized and led by Jews of color to mark the annual celebration of freedom that is now a federal holiday.
Doug Emhoff highlights Black interfaith contributions as new project launches
By Adelle M. Banks — February 24, 2022
(RNS) — As the Black Interfaith Project launches, Emhoff said his interfaith marriage with Kamala Harris followed the discovery that their joint values were rooted in their different faiths.
Celebrate Facebook’s outage? Many faith communities couldn’t talk at all.
By Paul Brandeis Raushenbush — October 5, 2021
(RNS) — Facebook has been a catalyst for religious communities that aren’t defined geographically.
American Jews are taking a hard look at racism in their midst
By Yonat Shimron — February 12, 2021
(RNS) — The challenge for white American Jews is to understand that they can be both targets of white supremacy and also accomplices.
Rabbi Sandra Lawson on how not to treat Jews of color
By Yonat Shimron — June 25, 2020
(RNS) — “When someone looks different, that is not the time to ask a bunch of personal questions. It’s a time to say, ‘Welcome. Thank you so much for coming,’” says Rabbi Sandra Lawson of Elon University.
She’s black, gay and soon you can call her ‘rabbi’
By Lauren Markoe — May 28, 2015
(RNS) Sandra Lawson was a personal trainer and religious about nothing but fitness. Now she's religious about Judaism.
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