Through quarantine and beyond, get educated on the human rights issues you’re supporting, with books, films, podcasts, and more hand-picked by T’ruah staff.
Read
- The Crisis Caravan: What’s Wrong with Humanitarian Aid? | Linda Polman
- A Black Woman’s History of the United States | Daina Ramey Berry and Kali Nicole Gross
- Surviving Autocracy | Masha Gessen
- Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity | Abraham Joshua Heschel
- Justice in the City: An Argument from the Sources of Rabbinic Judaism (New Perspectives in Post-Rabbinic Judaism) | Aryeh Cohen
- Tomatoland | Barry Estabrook
- Because It’s Wrong: Torture, Privacy, and Presidential Power in the Age of Terror | Charles and Gregory Fried
- Unspeakable Acts, Ordinary People: The Dynamics of Torture | John Conroy
- The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration | Isabel Wilkerson
- “Still I Rise” | Maya Angelou
- 972 Magazine
- Jewish Currents
Watch
- I am Not Your Negro | a film directed by Raoul Peck, based on the novel by James Baldwin.
- Disturbing the Peace | a documentary directed by Stephen Apkon & Andrew Young, about Israeli and Palestinian former combatants partnering to create a better future through Combatants for Peace.
- Food Chains | a documentary directed by Sanjay Rawal, on the history of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers
- We should all be feminist | TED talk by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- The danger of a single story | TED talk by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Nevi’im (Anbiyaa) | A Youtube series about human rights issues in Israel, mostly regarding issues facing Mizrahim
Listen
- Uncivil | On the history of the U.S. civil war
- Scene on Radio | Seasons about whiteness (season two), masculinity (season 3), and democracy (season 4)
- Radiolab | The 2018 series “Border Trilogy” and the recent series “The Other Latif.”
- More Perfect | On the U.S. Constitution.
- Codeswitch | On the impact of race in every area of society
- 972+ Podcast | On Israel and Palestine
- You’re Wrong About | Episodes: “Homelessness,” “Gangs,” and “The Ebonics Controversy”
