Posts Tagged: Jews civil rights
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,...
Asians and Jews — Standing United
Within a matter of days, two violent hate crimes targeting Asian Americans and Jews occurred in broad daylight on the streets of New York. In...
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...
Black and Jewish: Braving the Pitfalls, Jews of Color Find Peace
JNS.org - It’s one of the few rap videos around that features a lead singer in frockcoat, tallis, and shtreimel -- paired with a cascade...
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...
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...
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...
George Floyd Protests Show Something Is Wrong — and We Must Fix It
Aficionados of Talmud study will know that it is often one key concept or thesis that will unlock a dense discussion of complex or obscure...
Help Keep the Focus on George Floyd’s Killer
JNS.org - The death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis cop Derek Chauvin, who dug his knee into Floyd’s neck, feels all too...
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...
Brother of Slain Civil Rights Worker Warns Against Racism
On a scale of 1 to 10, how is America doing when it comes to race relations? Only a 4, according to Stephen Schwerner, who recently spoke with Rabbi...
Will Black Lives Matters Drive a Wedge Between Jews and African-Americans?
JNS.org - As a minority group that has faced down centuries of antisemitism, the Jewish people have long stood shoulder-to-shoulder with other long-suffering and persecuted minority...
