Posts Tagged: African-Americans Jews
Addressing the Rise of Minority Attacks Against Orthodox Jews
Orthodox Jews in Brooklyn find themselves at the center of increasing antisemitic violence. Just this week, two teenagers chased a frantic Hasidic man down a...
Rebuilding Black Support for Israel
The relationship between the African-American leadership and Zionism has had an unfortunate trajectory. As Jacques Berlinerblau writes in "Blacks and Jews in America," his new...
Antisemitism Requires Each of Us to Stand Up and Fight
Jewish people are the target of more religious bias hate crimes in the United States than people of all other religions combined. FBI hate crime statistics...
Campus Advocacy Group Urges Pro-Israel, Jewish Students to Forge Ties With African-American Communities
JNS.org - This year’s Maccabee Task Force conference for students and professionals across America and Canada highlighted the importance of forging ties between Jewish and...
On Race Relations, Israel Is Not America
In the summer of 2000, while touring Israel with a group of American teens, I met a group of Ethiopians in the North. They were...
When an African-American Hero Tried to Stop the Holocaust
In 1903, W. E. B. Du Bois wrote in the prophetic The Souls of Black Folk that “the problem of the Twentieth Century is the problem of...
Maligning Martin Luther King as an Enemy of Israel
After reading Michelle Alexander’s screed in The New York Times, I'm not sure whether I should be more outraged by the paper’s publication of yet...
All Politics Is Local: How Off-Campus Anti-Israel Activists Impact Campus BDS
Back in the summer of 2009, the Atlanta, Georgia chapter of the virulently anti-Israel Quaker organization American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) launched a campaign...
Would Martin Luther King, Jr. Participate in This Year’s Women’s March?
Every year as we approach the weekend honoring the memory of the late Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., I always think about Dr. King’s close...
How Can Black Lives Matter Support Antisemitism Yet Claim to Promote Justice?
In its new platform, Black Lives Matter (BLM) has, despite the total lack of relevance to its own agenda or interests, thrown whatever heft it has...
Outreach to the Black Community Is Becoming a Staple in Pro-Israel Advocacy
JNS.org - Black History Month is marked annually in February, but reaching out to the African-American community and other minority populations has become a year-round endeavor...
The Spiritual Education of Cory Booker
Twenty-one years ago a young African-American Rhodes scholar walked into our Jewish student center at the University of Oxford in England. He had a date...
The Jewish Struggle for Universal Human Rights
One of the conundrums associated with the enduring nature of global anti-Semitism which has soared exponentially in recent years, is why, having made such disproportionate...
