May the Jewish American Teritage Month, an hour to celebrate Jewish achievements and take stock of alliances that strengthen us. There is no interaction with the inter-minority of US history as productive – or as weak – as bond between black and american Americans. We will be together in the Jim Crow seizing and expanded the country’s moral horizon. However, in recent years, the disagreements of Polising, the black life is important to act, and the Gaza war also opens old wounds. If we allow the fissures to broaden, we will take a look at a heritage built by the giants whose courage we are still asking.
In the morning of the 20th century, American Americans faced mobs Lynch, disenfranchisement, and segregation. Immigrants of Jews, many flighting Pogroms in Eastern Europe, met “No Jews should apply” signs, college quotas, and restraints. That’s a double burden of humble empathy empathy. In 1909, the Jewish Philanthropopist Henry Moskowitz and Lillian Wald joined the Web du Bois and Mary White Ovington to build the NAACP; The Prominent Jewish publisher Joel Spingarn became a long-term board of board and gave the highest civilian award. If you live in margins together, you recognize one person immediately.
During great migration, more than one million black Southians have moved north and midwestern towns – always on or beside Jewish neighborhoods. In the southern part of the town of Chicago and the Lenox Avenue in Harlem, black tenants rent apartments from Jewish owners and buy clothes to Jewish sellers. Each day commerce Knit community, despite economic disruption occasionally abrasive on rents and prices. However, a strong idea is rooted: Two History People can share the same streets and imagine together.
World War World, with the lesson of healing about racial hatred, intimacy is intensified. Jewish organizations – The Anti-Defamation League, American Committee, and Unions of Jewish Work – The activity was prepared, attorneys were hired. Jack Greenberg succeeded in Thurgood Marshall at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and co-fight brown v. Board of Education (1954). Rabbi Abraham Heschel Heschhel Marten by Dr. Martin Luther King Jrma, later saying, “When I marched, my legs prayed.” Their friendship reflects thousands of explicit collaborations: synagogues hosting the rallies of rabbi officials who paid the music for demonstrators.
Women, who often do not heal, promote good work in coalition behavior. Legal Scholar and Episcopal priest Pauli Murray Brainstor Litigation Strategies feminist feminists; Ella Baker relies on Jewish volunteers like Dorothy Zellner to register voters; Rita Schwerner, the widow of the killed activist Michael Schwerner, flowing the country demanding feederal protection for felect felect workers in Mississippi. Their brotherhood of cross-race expands the civil rights to the front of the pulpits and courts.
In addition, scholars of the Jews who have been flying in Nazi Germany and have been released to the future Holocaust found individual colleges in this critical period of intellectual communities between communities in the intellectual communities.
No episode captures mid-century solidarity more poignantly than freedom summer 1964. When ku klux klan members murdered James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner, America Saw Two Jews and One Black Man Die Together for the right to vote. Their bodies, buried at the same earthen dam, became an altar – proof that the struggle for black freedom and the Jewish combat against antisemitism cannot be separated by American redemption projects.
Meeting the first-main stress test after 1965. A rising black nationalism spoken by Carmichael and the black panther party urge self-determination rather than interracial alliances. In Brooklyn’s Ocean-Brownsville district, a black school community with majority Jewish teachers in a 1968 public education attack. Racism accusations flew in two ways; Mississippi-lodged friendship with no recent york. Meanwhile, Urban Poverty deepened, and some black tenants accused Jewish landlords of neglect or profitering – charges that sparked anger and occasionally violence in places like Chicago’s lawndale and Newark’s Central Ward.
Foreign policies pour salt in house wounds. Many black leaders, looking at global activity through an anti-colonial lens, introduced by Palestinian wishes. For Jews in America, Israel – almost a generation past shous – remained an inaccessible homeland. In 1984, President Jesse Jackson candidate refers to New York “Hymie-Town,” who prompts Jewish anger. The same year, the Nation of Islamic Louis Farrakhan calling Judaism a “religious religion,” deep doubt. The dialogue did not stop, but trust is flowing.
Even with short flow, bridges-founs work. The black ministers and the Jews of the Jews have launched the children of Abraham. The NAACP and ADL issued a crime-crime statement in 1997 and again in 2020. In the representative of Congress, the Jewish representative, Emmetting to the Anti-Lynching Act, signed by 2022.
Ferguson-era protests and the war of Israel – Hamas opens old wounds. Some Jews heard Anti-Israel waves in the parts of the black life that caused the platform, while some black activists met with the violence of the Jewish violence; Social media has raised each smaller. Israel-Palestine shared: Hamas October is changed to a community still marked with Shoah, although Gazan images suffer from black memories of state violence. However bridges-builders refuse to surrender. The NAACP and ADL issued the joint delement-crime fellement (1997, 2020), and artists such as Tiffany Alliance (2021) to fight racism and antisemunism. In HBCus, the visit to Jewish scholars today teaches Holocaust history; In Los Angeles, the Black Pastor host “Shabbat in service” in Solidarity “. Recent, a January 2024 Gaza stripping on the shepherd and the risk of recognition of the author of the author.
Our previous prayers with their feet – and sometimes died – because they believed in a Bible truth: no one was free until all was free. This month’s heritage month, we respect that heritage by resisting the temptation to walk away. History shows that when blacks and Jews stand on shoulder on the shoulder, America keeps ahead.
Ed Gaskin is the Executive Director of the Great Turbulent Hall Main Streets and Founder of Sunday celebrations
