Jewish involvement in the Civil Rights Movement #Jews and #Blacks marched arm & arm. Jews were earliest supporters of #UrbanLeague, #ILGWU organized too. #AmericanJewishCommittee, #AmericanJewishCongress & #ADL were central in the fight (1 #MLKDay onjewishmatters.com/jewish-involve…
#Jews made substantial financial contributions to many civil rights organizations including: #NAACP, #UrbsnLeague, #CongressofRacialEquality, & #StudentNonViolentCoordinatingCommittee (2) #MLKDay #MLK #MLKJr
50% of #CivilRights attorneys were #Jews & 50% of whites who went to Mississippi in 1964 were Jews who went to challenge #JimCrowLaws. Clark's study relied upon by the USSCt in Brown v Bd of Education case was paid for by #AmericanJewishCommittee #MLKDay (3)
#ADL & #AmericanJewishCommittee submitted americus cruise briefs in behalf of #BrownvBdOfEducation Then, these #Jewish groups moved on to fight against discrimination in housing, employmt, education & public accommodation. Desegregation regs were often drafted by #Jews #MLKDay (4
#Jews were disproportionately involved in the #CivilRights Movement. #Rabbis were part of lunch counter #sit-ins, #FreedomRides, MarchOnWashington & local integration efforts. Most Southern Jews were moderates even though they feared #antisemitic backlash. #MLKDay (5
#RabbiUriMiller gave the opening prayer & #RabbiJoachimPrinz spoke prior to Dr King's "I Have A Dream" Speech. #MLKDay #MLK #MLK2019 #MLKWeekend #MLKJrDay (6
#Rabbis: IraSanders of LittleRock testified before the #ArkansasSenate against pending #segregation bills. #PerryNussbaum of Miss. lent his support to integration efforts, as did #JacobRothschild of Atlanta, #EmmetFrank of Alexandria & #CharlesMantingand of Birmingham #mlk (7
Many southern #Synagogues were bombed during the #civilrights movement. #Klangroups exploited the integration crisis to launch #antisemitic attacks of violence. #Rabbis received death threats. (8) #MLKDay #MLK #MLK2019 #MLK90 #MLK2019
#Jews gave extensively to #AfricanAmerican causes. #WilliamRosenfeld of the Sears Roebuck family contributed more generously to Southern Black education than any other philanthropist. His daughter #EdithStern followed in her father's #CivilRights footsteps. #MLKDay #mlkjrday(9
#Jews saw the #civilrights fight as a #moral necessity of #racial #justice financially supported the #NAACP & King's #SouthernChristianLeadershipConference which kept them afloat. #MLKDay #mlkjrday (10
#RabbiArthurLelyveld was severely beaten in Hattiesberg, Miss & #DrEdwardSachar who volunteered his medical services almost lost his life being forced off the road. #Jewish organizations supported #Kennedy because he campaigned hard on #CivilRights (11) #MLKDay #MLK90
The #AmericanJewishCommittee sent #Kennedy an #8pointcivilrightsplan including fair employment & end to #JimCrow #segregation. The #CivilRightsAct & #VotingRightsAct were drafted at a conference room of #ReligiousActionCenterofReformJudaism under their leadership #MLKDay (12)
#ArnoldAronson worked w/#APhillipRandolph to pressure #FDR to issue #ExecutiveOrder8802 opening up jobs in fed govt & defense industries to minorities. Aronson helped plan the 1963 #MarchOnWashington for jobs and justice & became exec of #JewishCouncilForPublicAffairs #MLKDay (13
#MarvinCaplan became involved in desegregating dept store restaurants & worked w/#NeighborsInc to fight #whiteflight. He & #Aronson became leading lobbyists on Capitol Hill for the passage of #CivilRightsAct. Caplan was exec director of #LeadershipConferenceOnCivilRights (13 #MLK
#Caplan also served as Exec Director of #AFLCIO & became Exec Director of #LeadershipConferenceforCivilRights. He developed & led lobbying for #CivilRightsAct, #VotingRightdAct, #FairHousingAct, & #TitleIXProhibitionAgainstGenderDiscriminationInEducation (14 #MLKDay
#RobertLincolnGreenberg was #FreedomRider w/#RevRobertIMiller who became mayor of Englewood NJ. His friend #RabbiIreinBlank helped integrate eating establishments in the South. (15 #MLKDay #mlkjrday
#RabbiJoachimPrinz was President of the #AmericanJewishCommittee addressed the people at the Washington Mall before King rose to give his famous speech & joined the inner circle of religious leaders who met w/President #JFK after the speeches were over. #MLKDay #mlkjrday (16
#UnionofHebrewCongregations chartered a bus in 1964 & dozens of rabbis joined hundreds lobbying in favor of the #CivilRightsAct #MLKDay (17
In 1964, 3 #civilrightsworkers were murdered because they were working on the #FreedomSummerCampaign. #JamesEarlChaney #AndrewGoodman & #MichaelSchwerner's murders by the #WhiteKnightsoftheKKK sparked outrage & the #FBI investigated this as #MississippiBurning #mlk (18
#RabbiIsraelDresner was known as "the most arrested rabbi in America." He was one of three rabbis closest to Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. He served 4 times in prison in Florida & Georgia (19) #MLKDay #mlkjrday #MLK90
#StAugustine was the only place Reverend Martin Luther King Jr was arrested. He wrote a #LetterfromStAugustineJail to #RabbiIsraelDresner urging him to come, recruit #rabbis & join the movement. The result was the largest mass arrest of rabbis in US history on 6/18/64. #MLKDay 20
The arrests took place at the #MonsonHotel. #MartinLutherKing & #RabbiAbrahamHeschel: after the first Selma March led a delegation of 800 to FBI HQ in NYC to protest the agency's failure to protect the demonstrators. King invited Heschel to to join the 3rd Selma March. 21
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The leaders of the 3rd Selma March invited by Dr King to March arm & arm with him: #RalpheBunch & #ReverendAbernathy & #RabbiAbrahamHeschel (22) #MLKDay #MLK90 #mlkjrday #Jews #CivilRightsLeaders #Ethics History of overt empathy between #Blacks & #Jews #History #Zionism
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Jewish immigrants helped created Hollywood in the early 20th century because they were kept out of jobs, industries, and guilds due to antisemitism but they no longer control Hollywood. 1)
Today, Hollywood is corporate and global and not dominated by any one ethnic or religious group. The major studios are publicly traded corporations (Disney, Paramount Global, Warner Bros. Discovery, Comcast/Universal, Sony).
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Their leadership comes from diverse backgrounds and is accountable to shareholders, not a single community. Streaming giants like Netflix, Amazon, Apple are run by executives with no particular ties to old Hollywood’s Jewish founders.
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Have you noticed how the UN in New York will discuss recognition of the fictional (under International law) Palestinian state on Monday, September 22, the day before Rosh Hashanah –
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the celebration of the Jewish New Year, a time, because of time differences, in which there will be no Israeli representations in the UN to force a debate and to denounce the immorality of what is happening.
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What is happening is the diplomatic equivalent of the Arab attacks on Israel on both Yom Kippur 1973 and the massacre by Hamas on October 7, 2023, also a Jewish religious holiday.
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Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, "An open letter to the Arab countries: You have the power, the authority—culturally, religiously, and economically—to make a difference in the region.
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Before anything else, you must take action to get rid of terrorism, those who encourage, support, and finance terrorism. Stop looking for excuses to pander to evil for the sake of domestic peace. If the terrorism does not stop, the whole region can be reduced to ashes.
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מכתב פתוח למדינות ערב
יש לכם את הכוח, את הסמכות, מבחינה תרבותית, דתית וכלכלית, לחולל שינוי באזור. לפני כל דבר אחר, עליכם לפעול כדי להיפטר מהטרור, מאלה שמעודדים, תומכים ומממנים טרור.
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יש לכם את הכוח, את הסמכות, מבחינה תרבותית, דתית וכלכלית, לחולל שינוי באזור. לפני כל דבר אחר, עליכם לפעול כדי להיפטר מהטרור, מאלה שמעודדים, תומכים ומממנים טרור.
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הפסיקו לחפש תירוצים כדי להתחנף לרשע למען שלום בית. אם הטרור לא ייפסק, כל האזור עלול להיהרס עד אפר.
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رسالة مفتوحة إلى الدول العربية
لكم القدرة والسلطة، ثقافيًا ودينيًا واقتصاديًا، لإحداث تغيير إيجابي في المنطقة. قبل كل شيء، عليكم اتخاذ إجراءات للقضاء على الإرهاب، وعلى من يشجعه ويدعمه ويموله.
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Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, "In Germany, free speech and daring to challenge the system are no longer safe.
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Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) is a conservative party that has challenged the German status quo, where the Christian Democrats and the Socialists have worked together since the mid-1950s,
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controlling German political life, with only minor parties occasionally gaining a few Bundestag seats.
If you want to see their platform and understand why they are becoming increasingly popular, there is a lot of information available—
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Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, "Not only is it 100% true that no one, no government, has a right to abrogate Jewish rights to all of the land from the River to the Sea (and some say more), but we have to get the language correct as well.
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There is talk about whether to extend Israeli sovereignty to Judea, Samaria, and Gaza.
Understand that, by international law, Judea, Samaria, and Gaza are already part of the sovereign Jewish state.
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No other nation ever had sovereign rights or possession of any part of that land. The Armistice Agreements of 1949 specified that Jordanian and Egyptian authority was a temporary accommodation until peace between Israel and both other nations—
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