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.

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."

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.

Culture

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

Culture

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

United States

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

United States

Jay-Z Jewish lyric spurs concerns from ADL

Ideas

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

United States

Harlem’s new Jewish renaissance

United States

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

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