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In new PBS series, SFSU prof seeks to complicate Jewish views of race relations

The new PBS series “Black and Jewish in America: An Interwoven History” may be a bitter pill to swallow for Jews steeped in ...
WRIC ABC 8News on MSN

Virginia hosts first Black Jewish cultural celebration at Weinstein JCC

Organizers brought Virginia's first Black Jewish cultural celebration at the Weinstein Jewish Community Center (JCC) on ...
The Forward on MSN

How the Jewish Museum brought Black film history to new audiences

It was 1970 and Black-Jewish relations weren’t at their best. Two years earlier, the Ocean-Brownsville teachers’ strike in ...
Jewish Journal

My Jewish-African Seder

I never thought I’d be hosting a Passover Seder for one of the survivors of the Rwanda genocide, a tragedy in which almost a million people perished in 1994. The survivor, a sweet-looking woman named ...
The ForwardOpinion

The PBS series ‘Black and Jewish America’ gets it right — except the Black and Jewish part

The documentary, hosted by Henry Louis Gates Jr., traces years of alliance and rupture — but its false binary perpetuates ...
Queens Chronicle

Jewish-Black alliance is not forgotten at QPAC

I always wanted to connect the African-American struggle in America with the Jewish struggle, so I decided to do it through ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Jewish teens in South Africa, where crime and Israel criticism are sky-high, see little future at home

This article was produced as part of JTA’s Teen Journalism Fellowship, a program that works with Jewish teens around the world to report on issues that affect their lives. (JTA) — When she was in ...