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For a Righteous Cause Report: Reviving the Black-Jewish Alliance

January 25, 2024 No Comments

In the year following the Ye and Kyrie Irving antisemitism controversies, some heartening progress was made to repair the historical Black-Jewish alliance.

What would historical African American-Jewish music sound like?

October 16, 2018 No Comments

Anthony Russell’s new album mashes up Yiddish folk songs and African American roots songs in unexpected and transcendent ways.

Martin Luther King’s forgotten visit to the Holy Land

January 15, 2018 No Comments

What we can learn from MLK’s most important trip of his life.

‘The Whipping Man’ and the not-so-secret relationship between Blacks and Jews

March 2, 2015 No Comments

The issue of Jewish involvement in the Atlantic slave trade is a touchy subject for many reasons, including the Jews’ own history of enslavement.