“He felt very loyal to Jews because they supported the Civil Rights Movement financially and emotionally and by directly participating in it,” said Nancy Kates, the Berkeley-based director of a 2002 documentary about Rustin.
“I wish people would just not see Native Americans as foreign. We are your neighbors. We’re in your synagogues. We’re there davening next to you.”
As Israel wages war against Hamas, another kind of battle is taking place more than 7,000 miles away — this one over a piece of provocative street art in a typically quiet San Francisco neighborhood.
As he mixed matzah ball ingredients in a bowl during a recent episode of his online cooking show, Tsutomu Shimura reminisced about his bubbe. “I grew up going to Jewish delis with my grandmother,” Shimura said while preparing “Judon” — Japanese udon noodles with a Jewish twist.
Now streaming on Audible, “Can You Dig It?” includes interviews with former gang members and historians, along with dramatic reenactments of key moments in the Ghetto Brothers’ history.