Al Sharpton gets MSNBC host job

Published on August 23, 2011

MSNBC chose Rev. Al Sharpton to be its permanent news host for the channel's 6 P.M. slot, for a program to be called "PoliticsNation."

Al Sharpton: I made ‘mistakes’ during Crown Heights riots

Published on August 22, 2011

Rev. Al Sharpton says he made "mistakes" during the Crown Heights riots 20 years ago.

Opinion: Sharpton and the riots 20 years later

Published on August 22, 2011

On Sept. 17, 1991, almost a month after the tragic car accident that set off the Crown Heights Riots, Rev. Al Sharpton went to Israel to serve the driver of the car, Yosef Lifsh, with a wrongful death lawsuit.

Yankel Rosenbaum’s brother: Sharpton shouldn’t be on shul’s Crown Hts. panel

Published on August 18, 2011

The brother of Yankel Rosenbaum, the visiting Jewish scholar murdered in the 1991 Crown Heights riots, is decrying the participation of the Rev. Al Sharpton in a synagogue's panel discussion on the event's 20th anniversary.

Jackie Mason Calls Obama the ‘SCH’-word

Published on March 16, 2009

VIDEO: Blacks and Jews are back together and working side by side for an Obama victory

Published on August 29, 2008

Blacks and Jews are back together and working side by side for an Obama victory, JTA reports from Denver.

At Save Darfur Rally: ‘Never Again, Again’

By Rachel Silverman
Published on May 4, 2006

With the genocide in Darfur topping the Jewish community's national agenda, an unmistakable Jewish presence ran through Sunday's rally.