Posts Tagged: Jews African Americans
Resilient Alliances: A Blueprint for Black-Jewish Collaboration in 2025 and Beyond
History shows that when two resilient communities join forces, they can achieve transformative change. The Black and Jewish communities have long been examples of this,...
When Jews Helped Triumph Over Anti-Black Racism
On Easter Sunday, April 9, 1939, Jewish immigrant impresario Sol Hurok teamed with African-American contralto Marian Anderson to score a victory over prejudice. On the steps...
Jews Cannot Stay Silent Amid American Bigotry
I have written many times that non-Jews have no business telling Jews what is and is not antisemitic. That is why, for example, we reject...
Jewish Scholars and the Tangled History of Race Relations
Bruno Bettelheim survived pre-war Dachau and Buchenwald to come to the US, where he won acclaim as a psychoanalytic authority on concentration camp victims and...
Zionists Have Long Opposed American Racism
All decent people everywhere are outraged by the images of the murder of George Floyd. All voices must stand up against discrimination and racism. Interestingly, a...
The American House Is Burning
I have witnessed things this week that beggar the imagination. Tens of thousands of demonstrators marching through the streets of New York outraged at the...
Jews, African-Americans and Communism in Harlem
Before World War I, German sociologist Max Weber argued that “the Protestant ethic” had engendered “the spirit of capitalism.” His colleague, Werner Sombart, countered that...
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...
Remembering Jackie Robinson
Jackie Robinson was born 100 years ago. In 1947, when he broke baseball's color barrier, Jewish slugger Hank Greenberg was almost alone among active players...
How Zionists Helped Destroy Segregation in Baltimore
After a year when Jewish and African-American relations were strained by the Black Lives Matter's denunciation of Israel and other uncomfortable incidents, it’s worth recalling a little-known episode...
Do Jews Have a Color Problem? Sadly, Yes
Usually when I visit friends in Israel, we discuss the situation in Israel. But this time, we sat and discussed the situation in Baltimore. The...
Jewish Vigilantes Aid Black and Latino Victims in Brooklyn on Back to Back Days (PHOTOS)
In two separate incidents this week, victims of violence were aided by local Orthodox Jewish men in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn. On Tuesday, a...
