The Feb. 12 talk at Temple Beth Tikvah in Wayne will feature Avi Dresner and Donzaleigh Abernathy, the children of civil ...
We all have identities. Some can easily be seen while others can’t. Being both Black and Jewish is how I identify, and something I am immensely proud of. My mother, sister and I converted to Judaism ...
Tragically, the alliance of black and Jew is beginning ... identity and unity.” The black-Jewish confrontation may be only a subconflict in the larger hostilities between black and white.
Lewis, then 25, was right alongside them. There’s a narrative that the unity that defined the Black-Jewish alliance in the 1960s dissipated by the 1980s, in part because Black leaders like ...
Glen Echo Amusement Park was the wholesome, beloved playground of White metropolitan Washington, DC. Every summer, tens of ...
In her response, Jackson said she was proud to serve as a board member — and opened up about the school’s origins as a Jewish-Black civil rights alliance. “Georgetown Day School has a ...
The ad traded on the idea of a shared history of support between persecuted African Americans and persecuted Jews. Today, I ...
Our communities need to stand together and fight against racism, bigotry and antisemitism and build a safe world with equity and justice for all.
The documentary focuses on the 1960 alliance between Howard University ... Towards the end of the film, Black NAG member Hank Thomas says that Jews were the most important allies in the civil ...
Rabbi Michael Swarttz, cofounder of the Worcester Black-Jewish Alliance, recalled King's friendship with Rabbi Abraham Joshua Herschel, who wrote of his march with King from Selma to Montgomery ...
Avi Dresner and Donzaleigh Abernathy authored an op-ed in the New York Times last year about a sensitive and timely topic: the erosion of the alliance of Black and Jewish communities. "In our ...