“For the sin…”: H Street Northeast DC

This “Racial Justice Al Chet [“for the sin…”] video was created by Virginia Spatz and Rachel Conway for Hill Havurah in 2022. It is based on text developed by the authors with assistance from Rachel Faulkner in 2020. Updated version enhanced immensely by photos from local photographer Joseph Young, in 2022.

Racial Justice al chet video created for Hill Havurah, 2022

Full captions and alt text were not part of the original project.

Text of Racial Justice Al Chet — free to use with attribution and share-alike license.

For more context, longer associated Selichot Supplement. PLEASE NOTE COPYRIGHT AND PERMISSIONS on individual pieces within this supplement.

For background on “Al Chet” in high holiday prayers, see this basic English text, this piece from the Orthodox Union, and/or one of many, varied contemporary additions or replacements for long-standing prayerbook versions.

Exploration of gentrification and its relationship to Jewish text continues, in a very different format, at Isn’t It Time? Rereading Exodus.