Juneteenth Resource List 2025

EVENTS

Erev Juneteenth

with Michael Twitty, Joshua Nelson and the Kosher Gospel Singers, JCC SF, June 18th

 

Juneteenth Celebration

with Rabbi Koach Baruch Frazier, Congregation Bet Haverim, June 19th

 

Juneteenth and Jewish Cuisine: A Taste of Freedom

Challah & Soul, June 20th (RSVP by June 15th!)

 

JoCI Bay Area Pro Network and Juneteenth Shabbat Service

Jews of Color Initiative, June 20th

 

Juneteenth Shabbat at Washington Hebrew

with EDCJCC, June 20th

 

Juneteenth Jewbilee

Achim Sheli, June 22nd

 

READINGS AND RESOURCES

• Be’Chol Lashon Juneteenth Resources 

• Celebrating Black, Jewish Solidarity on Juneteenth, L’Chaim San Diego Magazine, 2024
• Temple Israel of Boston: Shavuot to Juneteenth: A Journey Toward Liberation

• A Jew Like Me (podcast): Juneteenth and Jewish Black Americans

• Juneteenth & Parashat Sh’lach, Cantor Jenni Asher, HAMAKOM, 2025
• Atlanta Jews of Color Reflect on Juneteenth, featuring Jada Garrett, Dr. Tarece Johnson, and Victoria Raggs, Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta, 2022
• Not Just a Second Passover: Juneteenth’s Unfinished Journey, Robin Washington, 2023

• A Conservative Juneteenth Hagaddah, USCJ, 2022

• What Juneteenth Means to My Black Jewish Family. Marcella White-Campbell, 2020

• Juneteenth Playlist, Rabbi Sandra Lawson

• Why Juneteenth—Which Marks the End of Slavery—Should be a Jewish Holiday. Tema Smith, 2019

• Juneteenth Offers Us a Day for Celebration, Reflection, and Healing. Rabbi Sandra Lawson, 2019

• ‘Juneteenth this year is a whole new ballgame’—9 Black Jews on the holiday of liberation. 2020

• What is Juneteenth to a Black Jew. Chris Harrison. 2020, updated 2021

• This Juneteenth, a ‘Kaddish for Black Lives’. 2020