It can’t happen here

By Rob Eshman
Published on November 11, 2008

"People choose to remain gay, and people choose to remain Jewish," said an organizer. "Why should the majority of us be forced to honor that choice?"

Turning a page in the history books

By Steve Greenberg
Published on November 4, 2008

Rosh Hashanah means frank talk with family, not just apples and honey

By The Web Guy
Published on September 23, 2008

But he’s a Muslim!

By Marty Kaplan
Published on August 25, 2008

The Muslim issue is a way to talk about race without talking about race, and without having to squirm about saying that race is not an issue.

Newspaper: ‘Two Jews and a black man ...‘

By Brad A. Greenberg
Published on August 13, 2008

Final aliyah flight leaves Ethiopia for Israel, U.S. revokes Fulbright winners’ visas

Published on August 5, 2008

The last official airlift of Ethiopian Jews was scheduled to land in Tel Aviv tonight, bringing to an end a state-organized campaign that began nearly 30 years ago and brought in some 120,000 immigrants from the east African nation

Being an African American candidate is different

By Raphael J. Sonenshein
Published on August 5, 2008

An African American candidacy is different. Obama can't easily be the racial middleman as Clinton was. And being aggressive carries its own special dynamics.

Student on track to become first black female rabbi

By Sue Fishkoff
Published on May 15, 2008

Alysa Stanton-Ogulnick isn't particularly interested in being a standard-bearer.


She's proud to be black, proud to be a woman and proud to be a 45-year-old single mother who raised her adopted child on her own.

Spectator - A Sane Italian Jew? Fugedaboutit

By Robert David Jaffee
Published on March 30, 2006

An adept impressionist, Solomon imitates his Old World Italian and Jewish relatives, as well as Jamaicans, Indian taxi drivers, pet dogs, even metal detectors. While many comedians draw upon the clashes between their parents, few would characterize them as Solomon does in a phone interview -- "the cup is half-full for my dad; for my mom, it's half-empty with poison in it."

We Mourn ‘First Lady’ of Civil Rights

By Rabbi Marc Schneier
Published on February 9, 2006

Coretta Scott King understood that a people who fight for their own rights are only as honorable as when they fight for the rights of all people. In this spirit, she championed the legacy of her late husband, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., in strengthening black-Jewish relations, in fighting for the civil rights of Jews and in supporting the issues and concerns of the Jewish community with the State of Israel in particular. Coretta Scott King, who died Jan. 30 at the age of 78, was honored Tuesday in a tribute attended by four presidents and an estimated 10,000 mourners.

Rosa Parks’ Message for Today

By Leonard Fein
Published on November 3, 2005

The moral -- these many years later -- is not immediately obvious. Yes, it's about what one person can do, but it is about much more than that. It's about leadership and about community organization

Jews Note Role in Historic School Case

By Matthew E. Berger
Published on May 13, 2004

Esther Swirk Brown wasn't the Brown for whom the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case desegregating schools is named -- but she is the Jewish woman who helped find Oliver Brown, no relation, to be the lead plaintiff in the historic case.

As a young woman in Kansas, Esther Brown was horrified by the conditions of the school that black children, including the children of her housekeeper, were forced to attend. The one-room schoolhouse in South Park had dilapidated walls and missing light bulbs.

The Other Side of the South

By Naomi Pfefferman
Published on September 4, 2003

What surprised Warner Shook was the play's reference to Jewish bigotry: "I had known nothing about the conflict between German and Eastern European Jews," he said. Shook was so fascinated he decided to direct the piece; to learn more, he read books on Jewish Atlanta and watched documentaries such as "Delta Jews," narrated by Uhry.

Men in Black

By Marlene Adler Marks
Published on March 28, 2002

There in my darkened doorway were two men in black mid-length coats with long, curly beards and black hats; a younger and an older man, with eyes burning so clear and bright that they seemed to be reading from an inner script. There was about their smiling countenances such a sense of purpose, that the word "messenger" sprang to mind. They knew and I knew. They had come for me.