Need for good schools should unite Jews and Latinos

By Bill Boyarsky

URL: http://www.jewishjournal.com/opinion/article/need_for_good_schools_should_unite_jews_and_latinos_20070105/

In contrast to the 1960s, when the fabled and overblown black-Jewish alliance was obsessively chronicled and debated by Jewish academics, journalists, essayists and community leaders, the rise of the Latino population has not seemed to capture much Jewish interest, either pro or con. That is especially true now, when so many activist Jews are focused only on Israel.

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