Shabbat Service – Dr. Martin Luther King,Jr.
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When:
January 15, 2021 @ 7:30 pm
2021-01-15T19:30:00-05:00
2021-01-15T19:45:00-05:00
Where:
Zoom
Contact:
Barbara Jay
Dr. King’s birthday falls on a Friday this January, and our program will recount, via historic clips and stories, the relationship between MLK and the Jews during the turbulent 60s.
In 1964, King said: “It would be impossible to record the contribution that the Jewish people have made toward the Negro’s struggle for freedom — it has been so great.”
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