The offices of Alpert Jewish Family Service are closed on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr’s Birthday. There are numerous connections between the work of Dr. King and the Jews living in America at the time which include the following: · Dr. King repeatedly used the Jewish experience as a model of success over oppression. · A Jewish woman, Esther Brown, in Topeka, Kan., started the lawsuit Brown vs. Board of Education. That 1954 Supreme Court decision put an end to legally mandated racially segregated schools. (Note that the […]
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