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I was a child at a civil rights sit-in. 60 years later, what’s changed?
Sixty years ago this month, an interracial group of civil rights activists staged an overnight, multi-day sit-in at the Chicago Board of Education. I was one of them. “Two Negro children, Glen and...
View ArticleDoes Torah allow fighting back — with folding chairs?
MONTGOMERY, Alabama — Before anything else, a disclosure: I arrived for a long-planned visit to the Freedom Rides Museum in this Southern city 36 hours after the Great Boat Dock Melee last Saturday,...
View ArticleClarence Jones helped MLK write speeches. He’s still fighting for Blacks —...
At 92, Clarence B. Jones has been a powerful force in the racial equality fight for decades. But his latest activism stems from watching white supremacists marching with tiki torches in Charlottesville...
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By bus and train and plane — and ‘Aunt Bessie’ — Jewish activist brought...
Although Saturday’s official commemoration of the 1963 March On Washington is on Shabbat — two days before the actual anniversary date of Aug. 28 — attendance is endorsed by major Jewish organizations....
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For ‘Rabbi On The Block,’ the street is her pulpit
Three years ago, the feature-length documentary “They Ain’t Ready For Me” told the story of Chicago anti-violence advocate Tamar Manasseh. At an hour and 29 minutes, it apparently wasn’t long enough....
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After 50 years, pioneering female rabbi is still practicing peace — and...
Rabbi Lynn Gottlieb is recognized as the first woman ordained by the Renewal movement, in 1981, and one of the first 10 female rabbis in the United States. She also could be considered the first female...
View ArticleWith Israel and Gaza at war, trivial matters can restore our empathy
This morning, I woke up to my usual routine: On my bathroom sink, an eighth-inch of pool of water was under the left faucet as always, annoying me that the plumbers had messed up years ago. That...
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Forget about Kanye’s tweets — Black members of Congress stand with Israel
During one of the recurring instances of hand-wringing over Black antisemitism some years ago, I stumbled upon an item worth keeping in mind: Members of the Congressional Black Caucus have consistently...
View ArticleJews shaken by the attacks must remember that oppression and hate have never...
Two weeks after the Hamas attack in Israel, the shattered sense of safety felt by Jews around the world hasn’t gone away. It’s the same ever-present insecurity felt by many people of color in the...
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Hamas terrorists killed and kidnapped people from around the world — not just...
When Hamas terrorists struck Israel on Oct. 7, Rabbi Mira Rivera said she immediately thought about Thai farm workers near the border with Gaza. “I said, ‘Oh my gosh, they’re going to find the Thai...
View ArticleHow will the March for Israel measure up against history?
If you want to capture the attention of Congress, the president, and the American public, a surefire way is to bring 100,000 people to march on Washington. Maybe. Major Jewish organizations in the U.S....
View ArticleLet’s celebrate all freed hostages, not just Israeli citizens
Updated: Thailand’s foreign ministry on Saturday released the names of 10 of its citizens freed on Friday after being held hostage in Gaza since Oct. 7. The ministry, which on Friday initially said...
View ArticleIn ‘Rustin,’ a ‘deputy’ civil rights leader finally gets his due
If 200,000 Jews who turned up at the March for Israel in Washington on Nov. 14 feel more empowered since that gathering, they have Bayard Rustin to thank. Then again, so does everyone else in the...
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A priceless Hanukkah story — and it cost only $70
I can’t remember if it was 1968 or ’69, or why my older brother Glen was visiting Albany Park, a neighborhood six miles away from our home on Chicago’s Near North Side. He doesn’t recall either, but it...
View ArticleImagining the unthinkable: Israel ceasing to exist
Years ago, I canceled a subscription to a newspaper after it landed on my doorstep with a headline shouting “Crazed snow plower kills 1, rams 50 cars.” I wasn’t protesting its decorum or even its...
View ArticleA different campus story: Jewish-Palestinian cooperation
At a time when college campuses have become a battleground between Jewish and Palestinian students and their sympathizers, University of Texas students Elijah Kahlenberg and Jadd Hashem are eager to...
View ArticleAuthor has ‘The Soul of Judaism’ — and the DNA to prove it
Although Bruce Haynes is the author of The Soul of Judaism — arguably the most definitive book about Black Jews in the U.S. written in the last 20 years — his initial interest in the subject wasn’t...
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A beautiful, Black, Queen Esther with braids — and readers are liking what...
It’s not at all surprising that a Jewish newspaper would publish an illustration of Queen Esther just before Purim. But a portrait of Esther as Black — dark skin, dark hair and braids — is bound to get...
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Historic synagogue in Brooklyn, home to Hebrew Israelites for half a century,...
A demolition crew on Monday brought an end to services ever resuming at the building housing Congregation B’nai Adath Kol Beth Yisrael in Brooklyn. Leaders of the Hebrew Israelite congregation had long...
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Jewish teen who knew OJ: A family tragedy, not about race
With the body of O.J. Simpson slated for cremation in the next few days, there are countless calls for him to burn — in hell. And there are prayers from an equally outspoken multitude for him to rest...
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