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Aug 30, 2024, 6:58 AM

Past Is Prologue – Dr. Martin Luther King’s Advice and October 7

Borscht Belt~Concord Hotel, Breezy Corners & Kiamisha Lake. (courtesy)

March 25, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered the keynote address at the Borscht Belt’s Concord Hotel to the annual Rabbinical Assembly of Conservative Rabbis. He spoke to a very receptive audience about his upcoming Poor People’s March...

Jun 30, 2024, 9:10 PM

The Silence of the Good

Though it is hard to stay optimistic as I watch civil discourse deteriorate and public demonstrations turn violent, in these dark times, I have found a source of hope in the form of a YouTube video from February 2024....

Jonathan Freirich

Jun 19, 2024, 6:48 AM

No straight lines

The arc of history doesn’t bend towards justice. Not by itself. We must bend and break the arc, again and again, to pursue justice. Time and patience always favor the oppressors. Falling apart is the natural direction of things. This holds for...

Mar 5, 2024, 12:45 AM

Bayard Rustin – Hero of Soviet Jewry

Bayard Rustin at news briefing on the Civil Rights March on Washington (Public Domain/ Wikimedia Commons)

In February, we marked the 38th anniversary of Natan (Anatoly) Sharansky’s arrival in Israel. After nine years of imprisonment in Russia, Sharansky’s new life as an Israeli citizen began in 1986, just one year prior to the death of Bayard Rustin, a civil rights activist who...

Simone Suzanne Kussatz

Mar 5, 2024, 12:41 AM

Mohamed Bourouissa at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris

An image from Mohamed Bourouissa's retrospective "Signal" at Palais de Tokyo
Photo credit: ARETE/ Simone Kussatz

TO MAKE THE INVISIBLE VISIBLE: MOHAMED BOUROUISSA'S "SIGNAL" AT PALAIS DE TOKYO IN PARIS, FRANCE Introduction: Having once immersed myself in the vibrant Los Angeles art scene, the Mohamed Bourouissa retrospective "Signal" curated by Hugo Vitrani and Alice Rochepeau at Palais...

Christian Rudolf Hamann

Feb 20, 2024, 6:18 PM

At the crossroads: An understanding solution or World War

When journalist Tucker Carlson presented his February 6, 2024, interview with Vladimir Putin, he was met with a wave of criticism and disparagement from the established media. You can of course have a different opinion on the content, but...

Michael Zoosman

Jan 18, 2024, 11:49 PM

US Govt Desecrates MLK by Seeking Death for Racist/Antisemitic Buffalo Shooter

The US government has again desecrated the memory of the late Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. In the latest example of the Biden administration having broken its promise to work to end the death penalty, it announced its...

Aaron David Fruh

Jan 18, 2024, 11:02 PM

What would Martin Luther King say about the Gaza war? It depends on the context

Earlier this week, as the world honored the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., some used the moment to dishonor Israel by declaring that King, if he were living today, would be sympathetic to the cause of Hamas. On...

Jan 15, 2024, 2:04 PM

MLK: The Six Day War interview

Image created by DALL-E, OpenAI’s image generation model.

ABC has Dr. King on record positing that Israel would give up lands claimed in 1967, but he never once mentioned the Palestinians. What did he really think?

Jessica Lauren Walton

Jan 15, 2024, 11:38 AM

Martin Luther King and Psychological Resilience

There are two types of people who travel this world: The one who follows the river and the one who takes on the mountain. The one who follows the river is calm in the certainty that he will find...

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