black-jewish relations

Al Sharpton admits to using ‘cheap’ rhetoric about Jews

The Reform movement’s decision to invite the activist to speak at their Religious Action Center conference earned some sharp rebukes.

By Ron Kampeas May 20, 2019 2:25 pm

Ideas

‘BlacKkKlansman’ recalls the possibilities, then and now, of a black-Jewish alliance

Spike Lee's movie offers a needed challenge to the simplistic historical understanding of the civil rights era, writes the author of "Black Power, Jewish Politics."

August 15, 2018 12:08 pm

Black woman says subway rant against Jewish man was not racist

Shauntaye King regrets only using expletives while screaming at Yossi Wolfe over other Jews' perceived flaws and the definition of Judaism.

June 1, 2018 5:33 am

A CNN panel talked about the Israeli rabbi who compared black children to monkeys. It got weird.

By Ron Kampeas May 16, 2018 4:46 pm

What was Louis Farrakhan doing at that Congressional Black Caucus meeting with Obama? Here’s what we found out.

By Ron Kampeas February 1, 2018 2:12 pm

March for Racial Justice, scheduled for Yom Kippur, seeks ways to include Jews

August 16, 2017 11:46 am

Jay-Z Jewish lyric spurs concerns from ADL

July 7, 2017 3:41 pm

Ideas

A white Jewish reporter, a black newspaper and a century of common causes

By Ethan Michaeli December 5, 2016 1:28 pm

Harlem’s new Jewish renaissance

By Ben Sales October 6, 2016 6:02 pm

In ‘Blazing Saddles,’ Gene Wilder helped recall a fading black-Jewish alliance

By Andrew Silow-Carroll August 30, 2016 12:20 pm

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