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    What Was on the Minds of Selma’s Jews?

    An unpublished 1965 study offers a glimpse of a community at a crossroads

    byS.L. Wisenberg
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    MLK’s Greatness Wasn’t in His Dreams, but in His Ability To Seize the Moment

    Why Hollywood gets social movements wrong: They are not the work of messy, failed organizations or misbegotten armies

    byTodd Gitlin
  •  In Montgomery, Alabama, a march to campaign for proper registration of black voters, March 23, 1965. From left: Ralph Abernathy, Martin Luther King Jr., Ralph Bunche, and Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel. (Popperfoto/Getty Images)
     In Montgomery, Alabama, a march to campaign for proper registration of black voters, March 23, 1965. From left: Ralph Abernathy, Martin Luther King Jr., Ralph Bunche, and Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel. (Popperfoto/Getty Images)
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    The Rabbis of Selma

    Abraham Heschel and others marched with Martin Luther King

    byElon Green
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    (Flickr)
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    The $1 Million Plan to Attract Jews to Alabama

    Five years later, Dothan, Ala. has 18 new Jewish residents

    byStephanie Butnick
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    (Alvin Benn)
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    Bar Mitzvah Boy Comes to the Aid of a Southern Synagogue in Disrepair

    Elijah Schulman’s family had roots in Selma, Ala. Now his mitzvah project will help maintain its century-old temple.

    byS.L. Wisenberg
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