Yehuda Webster

Dismantling Racism From The Inside Out

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To heal from and dismantle the violence of racism we need to make both systemic changes as well as individual/communal transformation to challenge and subvert the conditioning of racial hierarchies in our mind and in the habits of our behaviors. Mussar is the Jewish spiritual discipline designed to integrate the head and the heart through daily practice. Dismantling Racism from the Inside Out is a program and community of practice thatequips participants with daily concrete Jewish spiritual tools of Mussar to confront, subvert, and heal implicit and internalized racism within ourselves and others, supporting the collective organizing, advocacy and service-work efforts to dismantle racism systemically.

Yehudah is passionate about ensuring the Jewish community’s commitment to the fight for racial justice and collective liberation. With an analysis of balanced care, Yehudah works as the Program Director and Faculty for Inside Out Wisdom and Action Project, developing unique anti-oppression trainings and consulting with communities to bridge the gap between our stated values and the oppressive patterns we've internalized. He is a graduate of JFREJ’s Grace Paley Organizing Fellowship, Bend the Arc’s Selah Leadership Program, and Inside Out Wisdom and Action Project’s Ovdim Fellowship.