Our dynamic, diverse team can professionally support extended learning and intercultural competency building through group dialogue facilitation, keynote addresses, antisemitism education training, and workshops. Our core themes include understanding Jewish identity, anti-Jewish bias, historical and contemporary antisemitism, and centering Jewish narratives which are often excluded or undermined. Bespoke training means that thoughtful consultations between your team and ours allow us to understand how best to support your anticipated learning, and provide multiple entry points to tailor and customize content to ensure your organization's needs are being met. Equally, our subject matter experts are well poised to provide content reviews, collaborate on commemoration and Jewish heritage events, and to meet with your workplace's affinity networks and/or Jewish employee resource groups to provide Resiliency Support.
CIJA leads an extensive portfolio on Unlearning Antisemitism to the public sector, private corporations, non-profit organizations, academic networks, healthcare systems, school boards, and more. Our tailored trainings are designed for institutions and organizations who want to learn more about the Jewish people, enhance their intercultural competency, understand the impacts of historical antisemitism, and learn to address and combat contemporary antisemitism. To execute truly diverse, equitable, inclusive anti-racism mandates and fulfil anti-oppression strategies, we must ensure that these initiatives do not marginalize, omit or exclude Jews.
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Our pedagogy focuses on affirmation before oppression and is inclusive of the breadth of Jewish experience, including Ashkenazi, Sephardic, Mizrahi, Beta, Bene, and operates using an anti-oppressive approach that affirms Jewish peoplehood as a religious, ethnic, cultural, traditional, national identity that is dynamic and doesn’t fit neatly into categories of ‘race’ or ‘faith’. Understanding what makes Judaism unique is imperative to understanding the distinct persecution, hostility and hatred directed at and experienced by Jews.
Our unique antisemitism training sessions recognize that Jewish individuals and collectives are often stigmatized, misrepresented in media, that segments of the community are both under and over represented, and that anti-Jewish racism and antisemitism function much like other forms of oppression, while having distinct, insidious adaptabilities. Curriculum is inclusive of Jewish identity and lived experience, historical antisemitism, contemporary antisemitism, conspiracy theories, hate crimes data, and the social conditions have enabled and perpetuated antisemitism.
Engaged learning, creating the conditions for unlearning, level setting and providing a space for brave conversations, dialogue and confronting our misbeliefs, biases and prejudices is a critical component of learning about marginalized groups. Case studies, discussions throughout the sessions and ongoing interactivity allow participants to feel meaningfully engaged and empower contributions to the ongoing restorative work we are doing together.
CIJA provides a comprehensive resource package, including free tuition enrolment to our online EDI (equity, diversity and inclusion) module with videos, discussion guides, and a multi-media reading, watching and listening list consisting of books, articles, podcasts, journals and films to continue interculturally engaging with Jewish thought and providing multiple entry points to continue learning about the societal impacts of antisemitism.
Engaging solely with anti-Zionist Jewish voices constitutes tokenism and can be seen as antisemitic. Tokenization happens when a few unrepresentative Jewish voices are depicted as speaking for the entire community.
This toolkit was created to increase understanding of Jewish lived experience and identity, while enhancing empathy for all equity-deserving and seeking groups.
We understand that having a trusted person to talk to in a foundational piece for team leads, executives, and employees at all levels. Whether that’s a phone call to ask, “What is the difference between International Holocaust Remembrance Day on January 29th and Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Day) in May?” our team is dedicated to supporting you through workplace challenges, queries, and to engage in thoughtful conversations, committed to ongoing support.
CIJA has worked with private corporations and public sector clients alike. Here are some of the diverse institutions, organizations, boards, law firms, and global partnerships we have supported with antisemitism training, EDI support and extended education.
