Spill the Honey’s vision is to use the transformative power of the arts to change hearts and minds and seek to move people to act for social change. It amplifies the voices of the historic African American-Jewish civil rights coalition in order to reinforce shared legacies that can still foster empathy, nurture compassion, and build partnerships transcending divisions of race, class, gender, and ethnicity. Spill the Honey recognizes and honors the Jewish-American community’s legacy of fighting anti-Semitism and surviving the Holocaust and the African-American community’s legacy enduring slavery and fighting for freedom. The historic connections between these two communities can serve as a foundation for teaching tolerance of cultural differences, focusing public attention on present-day injustice, and encouraging young people to become global citizens.
To promote continued dialogue, cooperation, and coalition building among diverse people and communities to achieve social justice, beginning with African Americans and Jews.
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To highlight the alliance between African Americans and Jews that helped America dismantle Jim Crow segregation, though institutional racism still must be vanquished.
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To educate the next generation about the history, relevance, and transformative power of uniting diverse communities that share common values of justice, truth, and equality.
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To elucidate the reality that persecution is not a monopoly of any one people or culture; rather, it is a shared human experience that can only be ended and transcended when people unite across boundaries
Spill the Honey has developed and produced Shared Legacies: The African-American Jewish Civil Rights Alliance, a feature length documentary film that focuses on a proud chapter in modern American history when two communities of different backgrounds collaborated to transform the moral conscience of the nation. The powerful lessons of this crucial history must be remembered. For too many people today, the history of African Americans and Jews coming together has never been shared nor heard. We believe that that this relationship is, and can be, an inspiration that allows for people now to transcend their differences and cooperate so that future generations can participate in a vibrant pluralism. To date, Spill the Honey has captured more than 150 hours of film interviews with living witnesses to history in a 95 minute documentary
OUR TEAM

Dr. Shari Rogers
President of Spill the Honey; Director of Shared Legacies

Lisa Weitzman
Executive Director of Spill the Honey; Executive Producer of Shared Legacies

Blake Weissman
Spill the Honey
National Youth President

Alexis Scott
Media Consultant

Shoshana Janer
Treasurer

Barbara Schwartz
Secretary
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Robin Washington
Board Member

Rabbi Capers Funnye
Lead Rabbinical Adviser

Dr. Clarence B. Jones
Historical Advisor

Lou Gossett Jr.
Advisor

Dr. Susanna Heschel
Historical Advisor

Dr. Hillel Levine
Historical Advisor

Dr. Michael Berenbaum
Historical Advisor

Dr. Gary Zola
Historical Advisor

William G. Anderson
Historical Advisor

Bruce Haynes
Curriculum Advisor

Ambassador David Saperstein
Historical Advisor

Rabbi Jonah Dov Pesner
Historical Advisor

Edwin Black
Historical Advisor

Rabbi Ben Kamin
Historical Advisor

Sherry Frank
Jewish Community Activist

Rev. Gerald Durley
Adviser

Donna Charles
Business Outreach

Carl Dickerson
Business Outreach

Dr. Charles Asher Small
Adviser

Candida Sweeting Mobley
Community Outreach

Johnny Taylor
Community Outreach

James E. White Jr.
Adviser

Rev. Kenneth Flowers
Community Outreach

Rabbi Capers Funnye
Rabbinical Adviser

Rabbi Alvin Sugarman
Rabbinical Adviser

W. Wilder Knight
Legal Counsel (Shared Legacies)

Rabbi Everett Gendler
Rabbinical Adviser

Rev. Jim V Jr.
Adviser

Mayer Morganroth
Legal Counsel (Shared Legacies)

Devon Cunningham
Art Director

Yale Stum
Music Director

Mali Hunter
Music Director

Shari Kaufman
Holocaust Educator
Howard Hertz
Legal Counsel

Joe Bellanca
Legal Counsel



Judith Glassman Etkin
Community Outreach
Community Outreach
Amy Nederlander

Maxine Dovere
Photographer

Laura Swartz
Event Coordinator

Tiffany Harris

Skylar Mitchell
Advisor
Advisor

Lynn Orman
Social Media Outreach

Coco Lurz
Alumni Ambassador

Micah Romaner
VP Operations

Andrew Lay
Internal Ambassador Coordinator

Sam Edelstein
Social Media Specialist
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Josh Savitz
Lead Creative Director

Julia Jassey
VP Educational Development

Julia Plawker
Lead Graphic Designer

Zion Martin
Ambassador

Alexa Bates
Social Media Specialist

Zachary Schaffer
Lead Facilitator

Zaccariah Wright
Director of Education

Sammy Schwartz
External Community Builder
