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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. at the 1963 Civil Rights March in Washington, D.C., during which he delivered his historic “I Have a Dream” speech, calling for an end to racism, Aug. 28 1963. Credit: Rowland Scherman/National Archives at College Park via Wikimedia Commons.

The king of the free world

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I loved growing up in America. Prior to my first year learning in Israel, I believed that there was no better country in the world. I felt that my values were American values, and...
Members of a 200-strong delegation of African-American Christian women meet with the Knesset’s Christian Allies Caucus in Jerusalem on Tuesday, July 25, 2023. Credit: Courtesy.

African-American Christians seek to fulfill MLK’s dream in Israel

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A delegation of 200 African-American Christian women met on Tuesday with leaders of the Knesset’s Christian Allies Caucus in Jerusalem, seeking to strengthen the ties of friendship with the Jewish people epitomized by the...

Honoring Menachem Begin and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

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Thirty years ago, we—a Jewish Democratic alderman and a Baptist pastor in New Haven, Connecticut—became friends. What brought us together? First, we recognized that we shared common beliefs and values. Second, we both felt that in...
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. at the civil-rights march in Washington, D.C., on Aug. 28, 1963. Credit: National Archives and Records Administration, College Park. Md.

The future of a divided America rests with Dr. Martin Luther King

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Two days before U.S. President-elect Joe Biden delivers his inaugural address, we honor a man, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., whose message should inform any leader interested in national unity. Dr. King may be the...
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. at the civil-rights march in Washington, D.C., on Aug. 28, 1963. Credit: National Archives and Records Administration, College Park. Md.

Assassinating the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

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A petition demanding that accounting professor Gordon Klein be fired from his position at UCLA’s Anderson School of Business, where he has been teaching for nearly four decades, has garnered more than 21,000 signatures...
A view of the anti-Semitic German folk art engraving known as "Judensau," on the Wittenberg Parish Church in Germany. Source: Wikimedia Commons.

What should be done with the ‘Judensau’?

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“Here in Wittenberg, in our parish church, there is a sow carved into the stone under which lie young pigs and Jews who are sucking,” wrote Martin Luther, the founder of the Protestant faith...
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is widely considered the most influential leader of the American civil rights movement. King, both a Baptist minister and civil rights activist, had a tremendous impact on race relations in the United States, beginning in the mid-1950s. He was a visionary leader who was intensely devoted to achieving social justice through non-violent means. (U.S. Air Force graphic/Airman 1st Class Eboni Reece)

Martin Luther King Jr.: A flesh-and-blood human

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There is a growing and voluble trend among scholars and journalists that we quite some time ago let go of the real King in favor of a caricatured legend–or, as Charles Blow of The New...
U.S. President Donald Trump displays his signature on an Executive Order committing his administration to combating the rise of anti-Semitism during an afternoon Hanukkah reception in the East Room of the White House on Dec. 11, 2019. Credit: Official White House Photo by Joyce N. Boghosian.

President Trump’s executive order on anti-Semitism

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U.S. President Donald Trump’s signing of an executive order on Dec. 11, 2019, applying Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act to Jewish Americans, is arguably the most significant single presidential action protecting...
Rev. Al Sharpton speaking at the Reform movement’s Religious Action Center conference in Washington, D.C. on May 20, 2019. Credit: RAC.

Sharpton notes his ‘cheap’ rhetoric towards Jews during 1991 Crown Heights riots

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Rev. Al Sharpton recalled on Monday that the widow of civil-rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. took him to task for his “cheap” rhetoric behind the 1991 riots in the Crown Heights neighborhood...