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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@tedcruz Take a look at those within MAGA who supported Iran over President Trump. The Quincy Institute's goal is to sever our unbreakable bond with our ally Israel. May I remind you not only is Iran a terrorist state with many terrorist proxies including Hamas and Hezbollah...
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@tedcruz which America designated as terrorist organizations in 1997 and the Houthis which were designated a terrorist organization in 2025 but also the Muslim Brotherhood, which Secretary of State Marco Rubio is currently seeking to designate as a terrorist organization.
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@tedcruz Further, Iran has twice attempted to assassinate President Trump.
Funny, how those who accept money from the various Koch and Soros groups always point to AIPAC which is not an Israeli lobby but an American one consisting of Christians and Jews
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Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote,
"Yom Kippur
יום כיפור
Sometimes, it is interesting to play around with Hebrew terminology and see what happens. 1)
Take Yom Kippur – לכפר
The Day of Atonement - and the term “to atone”, which itself means to do something responsible to make up for something one did irresponsibly or wrong and hopefully,
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everyone will make the כפר – the village or area, a better place to be once people have acted responsibly and atoned and ended an atmosphere of coldness and frost (כפור) that destroys good relations, or worse leads to outright heresy (כופר) and division and hurt.
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Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, "An open letter to Knesset member Avigdor Lieberman
Yes, I saw your suggestion that those who do not enlist in the IDF or serve for a couple years in some other national service should be denied the right to vote.
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Actually, I agree with you about this, Avigdor. But, though I understand your motives, to force the Haredim to serve or lose the vote, there are a few things you may not have considered.
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A. There is no real religious reason why Jews should not be responsible for defending Jews. In fact, Moshe Rabbeinu excused from the military obligation only those just married, just buying a home, or incompetent, the first two being temporary.
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Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, "I agree with the Columbia president on one point. The UN headquarters should leave New York or be relocated elsewhere, maybe Zimbabwe. 1)
And, USA should cease subsidizing a failed institution, an institution that has violated its raison d'être.
Perhaps if the UN is elsewhere, Americans can benefit by not having to hear the liars who make false accusations.
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Though, I guess there is a cost for everything — think of all the unemployed prostitutes that will not have those highly paid UN staffers around."
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Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, "'Promises, Promises' was a song composed by a cousin of my wife’s and sung by Dionne Warwick in 1968. (I think it was 1968.)
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I thought of this song when watching how the so-called allies of Israel have chosen to reward terrorists and burden Israel with their choices.
Why 'Promises'?
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Because in 2005, when solutions for the violence coming out of Gaza were discussed, the USA, the UK and the United Nations all jumped on board to 'Let Israel withdraw the Jews from Gaza and let the Arabs have self-rule there,
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Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, "What to Do About the UN?
When something is broken, one tries to see if it can be repaired at a reasonable price. But when it cannot be fixed, it gets discarded and replaced.
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The time has come to discard the United Nations Organization — and replace it. Starting fresh, starting with the intention to ensure peace and security, to value national differences and cultures, to respect law —
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not law as defined by political expediency and the blackmail of those who threaten violence.
The United States of America has subsidized the UN since its founding, in the hope for a better world.
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