Martin Luther King Jr

Rabbi barred from San Diego MLK event sparks backlash from Jewish groups

“The decision to disinvite me is, in my view, a disservice to the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.,” wrote Rabbi Hanan Leberman.

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Rabbi Hanan Leberman leads attendees at the AJC Global Forum in the singing of Tfila Leshlom Hamedina at the Davidson Plaza in the Old City of Jerusalem in June 2018.
Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard sits next to CIA Director John Ratcliffe and FBI Director Kash Patel, on the day they testify at the House Intelligence Committee hearing about worldwide threats, on Capitol Hill in Washington, March 26, 2025.

How Gabbard's 'hunters' pounced on secret CIA warehouse for Kennedy files

DNI officials caught the CIA off guard to seize assassination files on JFK, RFK, and MLK. The trove was transferred to the National Archives for release.

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THEN-US PRESIDENT John F. Kennedy and first lady Jacqueline Kennedy ride through Dallas moments before the president was assassinated on November 22, 1963. The president strongly supported Israel, though the ties were complex, says the writer.

John F. Kennedy remembered: 62 years since the assassination that shook the world - opinion

November 22, will mark 62 years since an assassin’s bullet ended the life of John F. Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States, as his motorcade was traveling through the streets of Dallas.

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Reverend Jesse Jackson bows his head in prayer on the Edmund Pettus Bridge to commemorate the 60th anniversary of 'Bloody Sunday' in Selma, Alabama, U.S., March 9, 2025.

US civil rights leader Jesse Jackson hospitalized, under observation for PSP

US civil rights icon Jesse Jackson, 84, is hospitalized with progressive supranuclear palsy, a rare brain disorder confirmed last year. He had previously been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease.

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Martin Luther King Jr. left a powerful legacy against hate - opinion

Dr. King devoted considerable effort to strengthen ties between the black and Jewish communities.

JANUARY 15, 2022ByARI MITTLEMAN
US PRESIDENT Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris pay their respects this past Tuesday at the crypt of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King, at the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change in Atlanta.

Zionists helped defeat segregation in Baltimore - opinion

This story began in the autumn of 1946, when the Zionist activists known as the Bergson Group sponsored a Broadway play called 'A Flag is Born.'

JANUARY 12, 2022ByRAFAEL MEDOFF
Child survivors of the Holocaust ride aboard the S.S. Ben Hecht.

Rabbi Robert Marx, who marched with Martin Luther King, dies at 93

Marx was involved in other interfaith work as well.

APRIL 5, 2021ByGABE FRIEDMAN/JTA
MARTIN LUTHER KING Jr. (center) marches in Selma, Alabama, alongside Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel (second from right)

'I have a dream': Jews and African Americans celebrate freedom together

"It was Dr. King who took the Hebrew Bible and made it a modern liberation manifesto, thereby demonstrating to the Jewish community, the contemporary power of Jewish prophecy and values."

MARCH 24, 2021ByHADASSAH BRENNER
RABBI ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL presents a Judaism and World Peace award to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1965.

Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy alive in Israel

Attack on US Capitol engenders new thoughts on civil rights icon’s calls for peace

JANUARY 18, 2021ByJOSHUA SHUMAN/THE MEDIA LINE
DR. MARTIN Luther King, Jr. addresses the crowd from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, during the March on Washington on August 28, 1963.

Hackers shut down synagogue website during MLK weekend sermon by Warnock

Hackers shut down an Atlanta synagogue’s live stream of Senator-Elect Raphael Warnock delivering a sermon to honor Martin Luther King, whose church he leads.

JANUARY 18, 2021ByRON KAMPEAS/JTA
Democratic US Senate candidates Jon Ossoff and Rev. Raphael Warnock look on as they appear together at a campaign rally ahead of US Senate runoff elections in Augusta, Georgia, US, January 4, 2021.

Black-Jewish ties make the US better - opinion

The ramifications of the “against all odds” electoral victories for Warnock and Ossoff – who ran as a team, proudly touting their Black and Jewish identities – are profound.

JANUARY 13, 2021ByMARC SCHNEIER
Newly-elected Georgia Senators Rev. Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff appear side by side ahead of the January 5 runoff election.

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day and Jerusalem

Dr. King is often remembered by his famous speech, “I have a dream…” Jerusalem is a city built by dreamers.

JANUARY 13, 2021BySTUART GELLER
Prof. Abraham Joshua Heschel presents the Judaism and World Peace Award to Martin Luther King Jr. on December 7, 1965.

Remembering Martin Luther King, Jr. - an exemplary leader

When King spoke, he praised Israel as an “oasis in the desert.” He lauded the Jewish people for assisting the blacks in the early years of the century and now.

JANUARY 13, 2021ByDAVID GEFFEN
They came to assist Martin Luther King, Jr. in registering African Americans to vote: Peter Geffen and Mickey Shur.

Taking our place as the heirs to the original March on Washington

“We are the advance guard of a massive moral revolution for jobs and freedom.”

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020ByISAIAH ROTHSTEIN
ON AUGUST 28, 1963, nearly 250,000 people joined the March on Washington for Freedom and Jobs.