black-jewish relations

A changing Crown Heights marks 25 years since Brooklyn ‘pogrom’

While members of the Jewish community disagree among themselves, relations between Crown Heights Jewish and non-Jewish leaders appear to have improved since the riots.

Black Lives Matter platform says Israel an ‘apartheid state’ committing ‘genocide’

While the majority of the document addresses issues other than Israel, the section on foreign policy calls Israel “a state that practices systematic discrimination."

Alabama councilwoman says Jewish man threatened her with gun over Holocaust comments

The African-American lawmaker, who had objected to city funding for a Holocaust memorial, alleged that the man said, “(Expletive), I will blow your (expletive) brains out for talking about my Jewish ancestors.”