Jewish leaders mourned the death of Coretta Scott King, who died Tuesday at age 78. King, the widow of Martin Luther King Jr., “continued her husband’s legacy of strengthening black-Jewish relations,” said Rabbi Marc Schneier, president of the Foundation for Ethnic Understanding.
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