The Black Jewish experience, and Black-Jewish relations, take center stage on Fifth Avenue
By Simone Saidmehr The Forward The civil rights movement represented a kind of pax romana in Black–Jewish relations — symbolized most enduringly by the image of Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel marching beside Martin Luther King Jr. from Selma to Montgomery. While many Jewish and Black Americans recall that era with a sense of wistful nostalgia, […]
