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  • 100 Years On: The Jewish Suffragists Who Helped Women Win the Right to Vote 
    Anderson, Adrienne Wigdortz (Jewish Journal, 2020-08-14)
    Although Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony and Sojourner Truth were some of the best known figures in the battle for women's suffrage in the United States, other activists played a significant role in the suffrage ...
  • Abortion rights crusader Henry Morgentaler, revered and hated, dead at 90 
    Martin, Sandra (The Globe and Mail, 2013-05-29)
    Lengthy obituary on the life, death and significance of Dr. Henry Morgentaler. Click on the link above to access the obituary.
  • Ben & Jerry's Radical Ice Cream Dreams 
    Marchese, David (The New York Times, 2020-07-27)
    This article is an interview with Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, the founders of Ben & Jerry's Homemade Ice Cream. Cohen and Greenfield, childhood friends, founded Ben & Jerry's Homemade Ice Cream in 1978. It became a ...
  • Cycling in Montreal: Q&A with pioneering activist Robert "Bicycle Bob" Silverman 
    Riga, Andy (Montreal Gazette, 2016-04-15)
    This article is an interview with Robert Silverman, known as Bicycle Bob. Silverman is credited with being a pioneer who helped to transform Montreal from a city without bike paths or places to park bikes into one of the ...
  • Elie Wiesel - Facts 
    Nobelrize.org (Nobel Media AB, 2016)
    Elie Wiesel was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986. This site contains pertinent facts, links to biographical information, his Nobel Lecture, Acceptance Speech and an interview with him. Click on this link to the official ...
  • Elie Wiesel Biography.com 
    Biography.com (A&E Television Networks, 2017-02-08)
    Biography of noted Holocaust survivor, Elie Wiesel. Click on the link to read the biography.
  • Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity 
    Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity (2017)
    A foundation established by Elie Wiesel and his wife, Marion shortly after he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986. Founded in memory of the holocaust, the purpose of the foundation is to combat prejudice and intolerance. ...
  • Elie Wiesel, Nobel laureate and memory keeper of the Holocaust, dies at 87 
    Langer, Emily (Washington Post, 2016-07-02)
    Obituary of Elie Wiesel in the Washington Post. Click on the link to read the obituary.
  • Emma Goldman 
    Jewish Women's Archive (2017)
    Comprehensive biographical essay, produced in collaboration with the Emma Goldman Papers (http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/goldman/), about the life, contributions and significance of Emma Goldman. Includes a chronology of ...
  • God and Society in Heschel and King 
    Heschel, Susannah (The Shalom Center, 2001-09-08)
    A "powerful study by Susannah Heschel of the theological threads of connection between her father and Dr. Martin Luther King" At the time she wrote this article Susannah Heschel was Abba Hillel Silver Professor of Jewish ...
  • Henry Morgentaler 
    Marshall, Tabitha; McLaren, Angus (Canadian Encyclopedia, 2013-12-16)
    Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia about Dr. Henry Morgentaler, who advocated for abortion rights in Canada. Click on the link above to access the article.
  • "I'd organize hell." Saul Alinksy. 
    Alinsky, Saul (San Francisco Bay Area Television archive, 2011-09-25)
    KPIX-TV documentary film from 1966 about the American community organizer and writer Saul Alinsky. Features extended interviews with Alinksy at his home in Carmel, California on wide ranging issues such as poverty, injustice, ...
  • In Selma, sold-out yarmulkes and Shabbat behind bars 
    Friedman, Gabe (Jewish Telgraphic Agency (Archive), 2015-01-17)
    This article, from the archive of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency discusses the role of Jews in the bloody marches in Selma, Alabama in 1965, to press for voting rights for African Americans. Jewish organizations, as well ...
  • Michael Henry Schwerner, James Earl Chaney, and Andrew Goodman 
    Baumgartner, Neil (Jim Crow Museum, Ferris State University, 2012)
    A brief recounting of the deaths of "Civil rights workers Michael Henry Schwerner, James Earl Chaney, and Andrew Goodman [who] were killed by a mob of Klansmen in Neshoba County, Mississippi, on June 21, 1964." Click on ...
  • The Movie Selma: Where is Heschel? 
    Vorspan, Al (Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism, 2015-01-23)
    From the introduction: "The movie Selma moved me very deeply, and I was impressed with the superb acting (especially MLK) and brilliant writing. But I was also troubled that this movie (so clearly on the side of the angels) ...
  • National Council of Jewish Women 
    National Council of Jewish Women (2017)
    Inspired by Jewish values, the National Council of Jewish Women is a grassroots advocacy organization that advocates for social justice in order to improve the lives of women, children and families. Click on the link to ...
  • Norman Lear’s Work Is Never Done: At UCLA Blueprint event, the iconic TV producer reflects on his career and shares his thoughts on modern America 
    Van Dyke, Jonathan (UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, 2018-01-19)
    Norman Lear is best known for creating and producing the landmark television shows, "All in the Family," "Maude," "Good Times" and "The Jeffersons." These shows treated controversial topics such as race relations, politics ...
  • Our Father, In Law 
    Dicker, Ron (The Forward, 2009-12-16)
    “ 'The work that Bill did with the outcasts, the unpopular and the disenfranchised was to be a good Jew, continuing the Jewish tradition of standing up for the underdog,' Emily Kunstler said. The Kunstler daughters have ...
  • A Rabbi of His Time, With a Charisma That Transcends It 
    Rothstein, Edward (New York Times, 2007-12-24)
    An essay in The New York Times on the theology and social activism of Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel.
  • The Radical Heschel 
    West, Cornel (Jewish Currents, 2020-12-23)
    In this article, scholar Cornel West contextualizes the belief of Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel within the Jewish prophetic tradition. West describes Heschel as "greatest exemplar of the prophetic legacy of Jerusalem in the ...

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