The Bonds of Black-Jewish History and Empathy Run Deep
“Go Down, Moses, way down in Egypt land…” The words of that African American spiritual from the days of enslavement still hold immense power to move anyone who empathizes with oppressed people. The theme, of course, is anchored in the words of the Hebrew Bible, the Old Testament to most Christians. There’s a reason so…
The Black-Jewish Alliance – As Strong and Real As We Want It to Be
A famous photograph of the march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, on March 21, 1965, shows a conspicuously white-maned, bespectacled, white man walking arm-in-arm with the great Black Civil Rights leaders Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth and Ralph Bunche, on the other side of whom marched Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (It’s worth noting that a young…
This Is How Brittney Griner’s Homecoming Is Being Celebrated
“She’s on the ground.” With those words, President Joe Biden told Cherelle Griner that her wife, WNBA star Brittney Griner, was on her way home after a prisoner exchange in Abu Dhabi on December 9. Griner spent more than nine months being held prisoner in Russia. In moments of sheer joy captured on video, Cherelle…
How Do We Make Our Country Less Extreme?
At this point in the American story, it’s a cliché to say that we as a country are politically polarized. It seems like relatively few of us want to leave our own media echo chambers and our own groups of like-minded voters to discuss genuine differences civilly and productively. Moving beyond extremes Historians tell us…
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