National NAACP to Remove Philadelphia Chapter’s Leaders After Chapter President Shares Anti-Semitic Image
Aaron Bandler
August 27, 2020
The chapter voted to dissolve itself and cede control to the national NAACP.
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‘Marshall’ Portrays Justice’s Early Work and a Golden Era of Black-Jewish Relations
Naomi Pfefferman
October 12, 2017
What Martin Luther King Jr. would teach Black Lives Matter about Israel
Jewish Journal
September 9, 2016
American Jews, and not just those who call themselves “progressives,” have identified with, and participated actively in, the movement for racial equality in the US since the founding of the NAACP in 1909 as well as the post-WWII civil rights crusade that transformed America.
Standing on holy ground
Jewish Journal
August 14, 2015
We arrived in Selma, Alabama to stand and march on holy ground.
White suspect charged with murder in killings at black church
Jewish Journal
June 19, 2015
A 21-year-old white man has been charged with nine counts of murder in connection with an attack on a historic black South Carolina church, police said on Friday, and media reports said he had hoped to incite a race war in the United States.
Jon Stewart on the confusion surrounding Rachel Dolezal: ‘Whaaaaaat?’
Jewish Journal
June 16, 2015
Jon Stewart\’s initial reaction to the Rachel Doleful story: \”Whaaaaaaaaaat!?\”
Bruce Levenson: Worse — and better — than Donald Sterling
Jewish Journal
September 8, 2014
Read the email that cost Bruce Levenson his ownership of the NBA franchise the Atlanta Hawks. It’s ten times less raw and salacious than Donald Sterling’s racist rant to his mistress. At the same time, its ten times worse.
On the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act
Jewish Journal
July 2, 2014
On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Rabbi David Saperstein, Director and Counsel of the Religious Action Center, (and long time national Board member of the NAACP and the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights) issued the following statement.
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