Word: rabbis
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...horrible massacre in Hebron last week was the act of a fanatical Israeli settler. A follower of the late Rabbi Meir Kahane, he firmly believed that the current peace negotiations were a capitulation by Israel...
Minister Farrakhan may be rightly upset that antislavery activism was not predominant among the 150,000 Jews then in America, or that there is no record of any Southern rabbi who publicly criticized slavery -- but there were militant Jewish abolitionists (including Northern rabbis) such as Isidor Busch, Michael Helprin, Rabbi David Einhorn and August Bondi (who fought with John Brown). The expulsion of Jews from Tennessee by Ulysses S. Grant's Order No. 11 in 1862 and new waves of poor East European Jews would yield a more antiracist activism among American Jewry. But even though Minister Farrakhan's anti...
Amid the uproar, I participated in a public-radio panel discussion of these issues. One of the panelists, Rabbi David Saperstein, director of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism, argued that the media spend too much time on black-Jewish relations, that TIME should have talked more about the offenses in Muhammad's speech to Roman Catholics, women, gays and others. I agreed with him about the second half of that statement. But it seems to me that there could be no more significant conflict than the one between Jewish and black people since the questions it raises...
...Harvard rabbi and Wellesley College's president have both criticized a book dealing with alleged Jewish "domination" of Blacks written by a professor at Wellesley...
...Martin's book also attacks a 1992 rally organized by the Harvard Radcliffe Hillel in protest of a speech given that day by City University of New York professor Leonard Jeffries, said Rabbi Sally D. Finestone, associate director of Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel...