How to repair Black-Jewish relations? One effort kicks off in Wayne
The Feb. 12 talk at Temple Beth Tikvah in Wayne will feature Avi Dresner and Donzaleigh Abernathy, the children of civil rights activists.
Al Bawaba News3 年
Freedom Rider Rabbi who Marched with Martin Luther King Jr. Dies
Rabbi Israel “Sy” Dresner, who demonstrated with Martin Luther King Jr. and was sometimes called the “most arrested rabbi in America,” died Thursday at age 92. Dresner, who was a Freedom ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency14 年
A half-century later, rabbis recall marching with Martin Luther King
When blacks in the 1960s South asked rabbis to bring them kipot they could wear as “freedom caps,” it was a sign of the strong alliance between blacks and Jews during the civil rights era.