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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...
Kentucky Rabbi Stands Up to Anti-Israel Pastor, and a Jew Is Shot in Broad Daylight
A would-be assassin arrived at the campaign headquarters of Craig Greenberg, a Democrat running for mayor in Louisville, Kentucky, and tried to kill him. Luckily, the...
How Zionists Helped Defeat Segregation
This year, Martin Luther King, Jr., Day will be commemorated just before the 75th anniversary of a remarkable but little-known campaign by American Zionists and...
Jewish and Black Activists Will Speak Out Against California Model Curriculum at Los Angeles Rally
On March 7 at 1:00 pm, a grassroots movement called End Jew Hatred will make Jewish and other voices heard at 11000 Wilshire Boulevard in...
David Riesman and American Assimilation
Today, David Riesman is mostly remembered for his celebrated The Lonely Crowd (1950). American Jewish life was hardly mentioned. Yet the book is inflected by Riesman’s...
Reverend King and Rabbi Heschel — Spiritual Brothers and Souls
In 1968 in Chicago, two prophetic visionaries -- Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. and Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel -- had their first summit. As Reverend King...
Black and Jewish Communities Stand Together Against Hate
JNS.org - You don’t have to look far to see that hate and division are tearing apart our communities. But it’s our own fault. We...
For Black Antisemites, Visiting Auschwitz Is Not the Answer
JNS.org - American Jews are making a mistake. When Philadelphia Eagles football player DeSean Jackson made blatantly antisemitic remarks, Jewish Patriots player Julian Edelman invited...
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...
On MLK Day, the Future of African-American and Jewish Relations Hangs in the Balance
On this Martin Luther King Day, the future of African-American and Jewish relations hangs in the balance. The explosive controversy around National Women’s March leaders like...
Starbucks and Racism: Why ‘Woke’ Is Not
We now inhabit a new world of identity politics. There have always been identities of religion, nationality, and race. Too often, they have led to...
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...
