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The Power of a Circle: Standing Hand-in-Hand to Overcome Discrimination

Listen to Martin Luther King Jr.’s 1958 speech at my synagogue, and you’ll understand how his words continue to inspire activism

By Ellen Blum Barish · January 14, 2014
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The Haftarah Reading That Inspired Martin Luther King Jr.’s ‘I Have a Dream’

King’s speech draws on a part of Isaiah that Jews recite after Tisha B’Av—offering a model for revitalizing his mission

By Charles Kopel · January 13, 2014
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United States

The Plot for America: Remembering Civil Rights Leader Joachim Prinz

The influential Newark rabbi was a confidante of Martin Luther King, but he’s been all but ignored by history

By Allan Nadler · February 25, 2011

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World of Our Fathers

Rokhl’s Golden City: Two memoirs grapple with Yiddish history through the lens of fatherhood

By Rokhl Kafrissen · January 17, 2020
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Family

Talking About Miscarriage

You can tell your story—even if it doesn’t have a happy ending

By Rachel Rosenthal · January 17, 2020
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All in the Family

Ep. 211: Transgender Torah teacher Yiscah Smith, Israel’s Consul General in New York Dani Dayan, and feminist scholar Carol Gilligan

By Unorthodox · January 16, 2020
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Seven Civil Rights Heroes to Teach Your Kids About

By Marjorie Ingall

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Europe

The Poles Who Tried to Save My Father

The unknown story of the Bernese Group, a collective of Polish diplomats and Jewish activists in Switzerland who forged passports to try and help Jews escape the horrors of the Holocaust

By Menachem Z. Rosensaft · January 16, 2020
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Europe

The British Jews Who Want to Go Back to Germany

With open anti-Semitism in Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party, and Brexit looming, some British Jews are applying for passports to Germany and other European countries their parents fled

By Vladislav Davidzon · January 15, 2020
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World

The Fugitive

Israel is harboring the woman accused of being Australia’s worst Orthodox Jewish sexual predator. Could today’s court ruling finally send her home to face her accusers?

By Sarah Krasnostein · January 14, 2020

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Music

Jakob Dylan Is a Good Jewish Son

A rock prince pays respect to his elders in the moving documentary ‘Echo in the Canyon’

By Siân Gibby · January 17, 2020
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Fiction and Essays

A Taste of Syria in the Andes

On the trail of my great-grandfather, a merchant immigrant to Argentina

By Jordan Salama · January 16, 2020
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Fiction and Essays

Russia, My Homeland

I knew it was out there somewhere

By Howard Jacobson · January 15, 2020