The Multiracial Jewish Network has published a privilege checklist which details the marginalization which is faced by Jews of color.
[2] LGBT Jews of color face unique issues when they navigate through the intersections of racism, antisemitism, homophobia, and transphobia.
Some Jews also owned Black slaves in the United States, Latin America, and the Caribbean, most notably in Brazil and Suriname, but also in Barbados, Jamaica, Curaçao, and elsewhere.
[9] Most Jewish slave owners in the United States and the Caribbean were white Sephardim of Spanish and Portuguese descent.
The Mordecai House in Raleigh, North Carolina is a notable example of a plantation owned by an Ashkenazi slave owner.
Black Jews have experienced discrimination and exclusion in multiple countries, including the United States, Suriname, and elsewhere.
In the United States, most Jews lived in urban areas and few owned large plantations or rural properties where slavery was most heavily concentrated.
Some Jewish intellectuals including Bret Stephens and Steven Pinker have promoted the idea that Ashkenazi Jews tend to be more intelligent.
[18] Dan Burros was a member of the American Nazi Party and the United Klans of America; killing himself with a gun several hours after his Jewishness was publicly exposed.
[19][20] Because antisemitism was not a core belief of the first iteration of the Ku Klux Klan, some white Southern Jews were members of the KKK.
[25] The book In the Shadow of Moses includes a chapter titled "The Color of Judaism", written by Aurélien Mokoko Gampiot and Cécile Coquet-Mokoko, which describes the challenges Black Jews in France face in normalizing "their presence in Jewish spaces in France by becoming visible" because "their identification with the Jewish people is inseparable from the issue of visibility.
[29] The South African Jewish Board of Deputies officially condemned apartheid in 1985, having previously maintained a neutral position.
[30] The Jewish Chronicle has alleged that the board had "played toadying and inglorious roles over the years in defending Israel’s ties and in support of the apartheid government.
"[31] Black Jews in the United Kingdom face racism within predominantly white Jewish spaces, including racial profiling.
[32] In April 2021, the Board of Deputies of British Jews published the Bush Report on racial inclusion in the British-Jewish community.
The responsa describes the conversion of African Americans to Judaism as a "troublesome situation", because a "Negro becoming a Jew subjects himself to double difficulties."
Freehof wrote that he would discourage an African-American man who wanted to marry a Jewish woman "For the sake of their happiness", but would not refuse.
[35] In Cleveland, the anti-racist Mitsui Collective was founded to "build a resilient community through embodied Jewish practice and multiracial justice".
Haya Mayaan, a Black Jewish woman from Cleveland, has said that she is often mistaken for a janitor, nurse, or nanny when she attends services at the B'nai Jeshurun Congregation.
[45] Inside the synagogue, there is a mural which includes a Jewish Confederate soldier sitting with a broken sword, an artistic depiction of the Lost Cause of the Confederacy.
Following the South Carolina Declaration of Secession in 1860, the white Jewish community of Charleston rallied to the support of the Confederacy.
These white Jewish real estate developers - including Sam Eig, Morris Cafritz, Jack and Abraham S. Kay, Harold Greenberg, Albert H. Small, and others - removed antisemitic language from the racial covenants but retained racist language that excluded Black people and other people of color, including Jews of color.
Historically Jewish communities in Montgomery County developed in full or in part by white Jewish real estate developers include Indian Spring (Abraham S. Kay) and Franklin Knolls (Morris Cafritz) in Silver Spring, Rock Creek Forest in Chevy Chase (Sam Eig), Greenwich Forest in Bethesda (Cafritz), and Kemp Mill in Wheaton (Jack Kay and Harold Greenberg).