Posts Tagged: African-American Rhodes scholar

Charles Barkley and Appreciating Jewish Customs
JNS.org - In a controversial 1993 Nike Air commercial, Phoenix Suns star Charles Barkley, one of the best basketball players in the world, proclaimed, “I...

The Rabbi and the Rhodes Scholar: How An Accidental Meeting Between Cory Booker and Me Led to Jewish Renewal
Twenty years ago this Monday, corresponding to the Jewish festival of Simchat Torah, a young African-American Rhodes scholar walked into a Chabad Jewish student center in...