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In honor of Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus, the Kraus Family Foundation and the Union for Reform Judaism (URJ) announced on April 30, 2019, on the eve of Yom Hashoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day), the formation of the Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus Initiative for Immigrant and Refugee Justice. The foundation’s cofounders, Peter (the grandson of Gilbert ...
The film tells the story of Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus, a Jewish couple from Philadelphia who traveled to Nazi Germany in 1939 and, with the help of the B'rith Sholom fraternal organization, saved Jewish children in Vienna from likely death in the Holocaust by finding them new homes in Philadelphia.
Walker has described her family background in both her family memoir, Pilgrim State, and her play, The Lynching as being of mixed Jewish and African descent. [1] According to Walker, her mother, Dorothy Brown, was a black Jamaican and Sephardi Jew [2] who was descended partly from a Portuguese Jew who came to the West Indies during the days of Christopher Columbus, and a female slave who ...
In August 2020, more than 600 Jewish organizations signed a letter stating, “Unequivocally: Black Lives Matter.” They then ran it as a full-page ad in the New York Times . There is much to ...
Edelman in 2010. Edelman was the first African-American woman admitted to The Mississippi Bar in 1964. [10] [11] [3] She began practicing law with the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund's Mississippi office, [12] working on racial justice issues connected with the civil rights movement and representing activists during the Mississippi Freedom Summer of 1964. [13]
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In 1982, Representative John Lewis, a civil rights icon, joined forces with concerned citizens from Atlanta's Black and Jewish communities to campaign for the renewal of the Voting Rights Act. [9] Lewis marched alongside Jewish community members and co-established the Atlanta Black-Jewish Coalition, emphasizing open dialogue and partnership.
Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a law to reunite a Jewish family with an Impressionist painting looted by Nazis. The law was designed to reverse a recent court ruling.