Posts Tagged: African-Americans
Campus Advocacy Group Urges Pro-Israel, Jewish Students to Forge Ties With African-American Communities
JNS.org - This year’s Maccabee Task Force conference for students and professionals across America and Canada highlighted the importance of forging ties between Jewish and...
Jews, African-Americans and Communism in Harlem
Before World War I, German sociologist Max Weber argued that “the Protestant ethic” had engendered “the spirit of capitalism.” His colleague, Werner Sombart, countered that...
Sanders Campaign Says Status as ‘White Jewish Man’ Disqualifies From Giving Racial Justice Speech
US presidential candidate Bernie Sanders on Saturday canceled a planned speech on race issues because he is “a white Jewish man,” his campaign said in...
When an African-American Hero Tried to Stop the Holocaust
In 1903, W. E. B. Du Bois wrote in the prophetic The Souls of Black Folk that “the problem of the Twentieth Century is the problem of...
As Jewish State’s Ties With Africa Blossom, African-American Journalists Visit Ghana to get First-Hand Look at Israeli Development Work
A group of African-American journalists recently got a first-hand look at international development projects being run by Israel in the West African nation of Ghana. “Our...
What America Can Learn From Israel About Confronting Racism
The gruesome Facebook video of an 18-year-old, mentally disabled white male being savagely beaten by four African Americans has thrust the issue of race right...
How the Nazis Targeted Blacks, and the Impact of the Holocaust on African Americans
In recent years, some in the African American community have expressed a disconnect to Holocaust topics, seeing the genocide of the Jews as someone else’s...
Jewish Values Are the Salvation of the Republican Party
A 'malignant weapon'. That was the phrase used by a friend of mine -- a national TV host who inclines toward Republicans but this year...
Obama at the Congressional Black Caucus
Congresswoman Maxine Waters is correct: President Obama would never tell a gay or Jewish organization to "stop crying" about the issues confronting them. More to the...
