Posts Tagged: Jews and African Americans
Jewish Racial Relations and the Heyday of New York Sports
For New Yorkers, the pinnacle of “the golden age” of sports came after World War II. The Yankees won five straight World Series, and the...
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...
American Jews Mark Martin Luther King Jr. Day With Tributes to Late Civil Rights Leader
American Jewish groups on Monday paid their customary tributes to the most beloved leader in the US civil rights movement's history, as the country marked...
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...
John Kerry’s Israel Speech Dishonored Martin Luther King Jr.
JNS.org - In his recent speech about Israeli settlements, Secretary of State John Kerry unfairly blamed Israel and minimized Palestinian violence. But he also did something...
A Tale of Mutual Empathy: Jewish Refugee Scholars at Historically Black Colleges and Universities
In Philadelphia, the city of brotherly love, an exhibition aptly opening on Martin Luther King Day will highlight a historical moment of mutual respect and...
