Posts Tagged: Black Jewish relations
Jews and Slavery Reparations
In The Chicago Tribune, Rabbi Jonah Pesner, Director of Reform Judaism’s Religious Action Center, has offered his prescription for racial healing through reparations for slavery. Rabbi...
40th Anniversary: Jews and Washington, DC’s African Art Museum
This summer is the 40th anniversary of an important but overlooked Jewish-American achievement: on August 13, 1979, Washington, DC’s Museum of African Art became part...
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...
