Jews ‘must be included’ in ethnic studies curriculum, says state schools chief at press conference
Gabe Stutman, The Jewish News of Northern California, 08/14/2019
California State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond said during a press conference on Wednesday morning that Jewish Americans “must be included” in a controversial ethnic studies curriculum for high school.
Black-Jewish teaching team tackles ‘Black-Jewish relations’ at USF
Rob Gloster, The Jewish News, 10/24/2018
“The hope is that we’re going to kind of complete each other. In our relationship as co-instructors, we’re going to model what black-Jewish relationships should look like.”
Book Review: Troubling the Waters: Black-Jewish Relations in the American Century
Jane Gordon, Institute for the Study of Race and Social Thought and the Center for Afro-Jewish Studies., 08/24/2006
Cheryl Lynn Greenberg, in Troubling the Waters: Black-Jewish Relations in the American Century, reopens the question of whether there was a “golden age” of cooperation between Black and Jewish groups from the 1940s-1960s. And more interestingly, she asks whether the subsequent decline and disrepair of that partnership is permanent.