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
#MLKDay
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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Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, "WHY ARE THEY PUSHING FOR A 2-STATE SOLUTION. - IN OTHER WORDS WHY ARE THEY TRYING TO REWARD TERRORISTS AND THEIR SPONSORS?
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In 2006, the USA and the UK convinced Israel to withdraw all Jews and military from the Gaza Strip, allowing democratic elections there, and effectively independence as an experimental Palestine State.
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In the USA and in the UK, this experiment had Bi-Partisan support, Republicans and Democrats in the US, Labour and Tories in the UK. Both powers promised Israel that if this worked to bring peace, the idea could be expanded.
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Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, "WHY I AM NOT A 100% AI FAN
AT LEAST NOT FOR EVERYTHING
AI’s functions to go through all the printed material that has been put online, analyze it, and put out conclusions based on the preponderance of material.
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And that is the problem.
AI may be great for mathematical, engineering, and even medical diagnosis issues. But when it comes to history, sociology, psychology, religion, and cultural issues there will definitely be a problem.
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You see, any analysis of the preponderance of literature, or opinion, of learned papers out there, will result in a highly Eurocentric view, and will be replete therefore with conclusions that are rather dismissing of,
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The Public Interest Declassification Board (PIDB) is the primary U.S. body responsible for advising the President and executive branch officials on matters related to the classification and declassification of national security information.
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Established by Congress under 44 U.S.C. § 2105, its main functions include promoting public access to a reliable documentary record of significant U.S. national security decisions and activities, advising on the systematic review and release of declassified records, and
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providing recommendations for improving classification policies
Here is the complete list of current PIDB members as of July 2025:
1. Mark Angelson – Chair, appointed by President Biden on January 13, 2025 (term ends January 13, 2027)
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Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, "VISAS FOR CHRISTIAN TOUR GROUPS VISITING ISRAEL
(a response to Ambassador Huckabee)
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Ambassador MIKE HUCKABEE complained that there were obstacles being set up by Israel to issuing visas to for American Christian Groups for visits. He also said he would consider warning Christian Organizations not to come to Israel unless that stopped.
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I find this incomprehensible.
Because there are no limits on tourist visas for American tourists.
Any American can travel to Israel and stay for up to 90 days on a tourist visa.
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@Amiran_Zizovi @TheMossadIL It's too bad that you fail to appreciate the weapon of humor. Roseanne Barr @therealroseanne was reflecting on comedy & the role of the jester,
particularly in her conversation with Jordan B. Peterson.
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@Amiran_Zizovi @TheMossadIL @therealroseanne She describes the jester’s function as a figure who uses humor to expose power and ridicule wrongdoing.
In her own words:
"...to laugh power to scorn they cannot."
"It’s like that in a working‑class way of telling the king or the emperor, ‘Hey, you’re naked as hell, buddy.’"
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@Amiran_Zizovi @TheMossadIL @therealroseanne She’s essentially saying that comedians—or modern-day jesters—have the ability to mock, point out hypocrisy, and hold authority accountable in ways that those in power cannot do themselves. The jester’s humor is the medium through which scorn and truth get delivered safely.
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