By Rebecca Weiker, Re:Store Justice Program Director

In November 2019 I traveled with over one hundred members of my Jewish congregation to Montgomery Alabama on a pilgrimage to two remarkable institutions created by the Equal Justice Initiative, a justice organization created by Bryan Stevenson over thirty years ago. (You might be familiar with Mr. Stevenson as the attorney who argued history-making juvenile justice cases before the US Supreme Court, including Miller vs. Alabama, which held that mandatory life without parole sentences for juveniles are unconstitutional).

We went on this journey together because we understand that as Jews, as Americans, and as human beings, we must acknowledge and respond to a part of our history that has for too long been more hidden than visible in our public discourse.