Commentary: As Reform Jews, we must consider reparations for American slavery

Americans in general and faith groups in particular increasingly find ourselves reckoning with our nation's bigoted history and struggling with how to dismantle the racist systems and structures that persist to this day. As the largest Jewish denomination in the United States, it's time for the Reform movement to join this conversation. It's time for us to talk reparations.

When I first read Ta-Nehisi Coates' groundbreaking article "The Case for Reparations," I thought of a blessing that I, like many Jews, have said so many times throughout my life, including