African American Jews

MLK's Impact On Judaism

Shira Hirschman Weiss | Posted 05.25.2011

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Shira Hirschman Weiss

Funnye co-founded the Alliance of Black Jews. Imagine how much harder the rabbi would have had to work to represent the African American Jewish community had there been no King.

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One African-American Family's Journey to Judaism

Yvonne Durant | Posted 05.25.2011

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Yvonne Durant

Seeing this handsome man of color as he blesses the wine in Hebrew makes me want to break rules and pull out a camera to film this other face of Judaism.

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