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Black and Jewish chef, writer, educator and food historian Michael W. Twitty sits at the head of the table at an interfaith seder attended by members of the Black and Jewish communities in this undated photo. (Courtesy of Sara Wolitzky)
February 11, 2026, 4:24 am
New PBS series examines bittersweet ties that have historically bound US Blacks and Jews
For Black History Month, docuseries ‘Black and Jewish America: An Interwoven History’ parses what has unified and divided the communities, amid today’s renewed tensions
By Rich Tenorio
Americans living in Israel march to the American Embassy in Tel Aviv with signs in Hebrew reading 'Americans for Equal Rights,' August 28, 1963. (AP Photo)
August 25, 2023, 6:46 pm
How Jews are joining the 60th anniversary of the March on Washington on Shabbat
About a dozen Jewish speakers will be among those addressing an estimated 75,000 people continuing the efforts that began six decades ago, and this time they include Jews of color
By Ben Sales
HBCU administrators in Jerusalem, July 12, 2023. From left - Harold Martin, Chancellor of North Carolina A&T State University; Lazar Berman, Times of Israel; Harry Williams, President and CEO, Thurgood Marshall College Fund; Colonel Alexander Conyers, President of South Carolina State University; David Wilson, President, Morgan State University; and Quinton Ross, President, Alabama State University (Times of Israel)
July 14, 2023, 11:28 am
In Israel, leaders of US Black universities laud partnership with Jewish community
Trip comes after several high-profile incidents that, to many, indicate the Black-Jewish relationship in the US needs urgent work
By Lazar Berman
Rabbi Arthur Waskow of the Shalom Center in Philadelphia leaves the podium as Mahdi Bray, Executive Director of Muslim American Society (MAS) Freedom, is seen at rear at a news conference at the National Press Club in Washington, Aug. 17, 2010 (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
November 16, 2020, 4:06 am
87-year-old activist rabbi: Shifting world is perfect place to practice balance
Rabbi Arthur Ocean Waskow offers new words to old prayers to mirror a turbulent reality in ‘Dancing in God’s Earthquake,’ his 28th book
By Melanie Lidman
Ira Glasser speaks in this still from 'Mighty Ira.' (Courtesy)
October 2, 2020, 3:22 am
Film explores why a Jewish former ACLU head defended Nazis’ right to free speech
In ‘Mighty Ira,’ streaming Oct. 9, activist lawyer sticks to his guns about Skokie march, a defining moment of his 34-year career — and befriends a Holocaust survivor who opposed
By Jordan Hoffman
Rabbi Arthur Waskow of the Shalom Center in Philadelphia leaves the podium as Mahdi Bray, Executive Director of Muslim American Society (MAS) Freedom, is seen at rear at a news conference at the National Press Club in Washington, Aug. 17, 2010 (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
July 3, 2018, 5:51 am
85-year-old rabbi arrested at Trump border policy protest
‘If you need to arrest us, so be it, but remember who the real criminals are,’ Arthur Waskow says before being detained in Philadelphia
By JTA
Illustrative: Leaders in a Vietnam war protest stand in silent prayer in Arlington National Cemetery, February 6, 1968, including Rabbi Abraham Heschel, and the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (AP Photo/Harvey Georges)
From the WebJanuary 15, 2018, 12:58 pm
A mandate of morality on MLK Day
In 2018, the Jewish community is at risk of being indifferent to suffering
By Avram Mlotek and Jonathan Leener
Lilly Rivlin, left, and Heather Booth at the first screening of 'Heather Booth: Changing the World.' (Photo Credit: Joan Roth)
July 20, 2017, 3:22 pm
In ‘Heather Booth,’ one great female Jewish activist films another
Screening July 20, the documentary follows the social justice organizer over a 50 year career. The bonus — director Lilly Rivlin is equally accomplished
By Elissa Einhorn
Palestinian women hold a scarf bearing the Palestine name as Israeli youths carry their national flag in the "flag march" through Damascus Gate in Jerusalem's Old City during celebrations for Jerusalem Day on May 17, 2015. (AFP Photo/Jack Guez)
May 11, 2017, 6:30 am
How the Six Day War changed American Jews
Historians say the existential crisis brought people together in a way that hasn’t been seen since Mount Sinai
By Ben Sales
Janice Rothschild Blumberg remembers when her Atlanta synagogue was bombed in 1958 by white supremacists and sees the same hatred still festering. (Bill Rothschild)
March 25, 2017, 5:18 am
60 years after synagogue bombing, an Atlanta rebbetzin remembers her friends Martin and Coretta
Spate of threats against JCCs eerily reminded Janice Rothschild Blumberg of when her temple was targeted during the civil rights movement
By Ben Sales
Text and images from 'A Poem for Peter,' a tribute to Ezra Jack Keats by Andrea Davis Pinkney. (Courtesy of Penguin Random House/via JTA)
December 17, 2016, 7:32 pm
Jewish author Ezra Jack Keats honored in new children’s book
The son of Polish immigrants in New York changed the kids’ literary landscape with his work ‘The Snowy Day.’ Now, an African-American author pens an homage
By Penny Schwartz
Standing Rock, North Dakota, November 26, 2016: Water Protectors gathered for a prayer circle as the sun set at the base of Turtle Island. (Getty images)
December 7, 2016, 8:07 pm
With mutual connection to water and land, Jews protest with Standing Rock Sioux
Despite a history of robust involvement in civil rights activism, distance has largely limited Jewish-Native American interaction — until now
By Cathryn J. Prince
Screenshot from 'Two Trains Runnin'.' The three Jewish boys from New York City had no idea what they were in for. (Courtesy Avalon Films)
December 1, 2016, 2:31 pm
How ‘three Jews in a Volkswagon’ braved the KKK to find a lost Mississippi blues legend
Director Sam Pollard’s ‘Two Trains Runnin’ follows white college students from the North as they hunt for art and equality during the violent Freedom Summer of 1964
By Jordan Hoffman
Ruth Negga and Joel Edgerton play the Lovings, a mixed-race couple driven out of rural Virginia. (FOcus Films)
November 3, 2016, 3:20 pm
In ‘Loving,’ Jewish lawyers are part comic-relief, part shyster
Even as they literally make the case for love in the new Oscar-focused biopic about inter-racial marriage, the attorneys’ portrayal plays to alt-Right racist stereotypes
By Jordan Hoffman
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