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America’s Black-Jewish story gets an update on new PBS series featuring Henry Louis Gates, Michael Twitty and more

JL;DR SUMMARY Black and Jewish America: An Interwoven History is an insightful PBS docuseries that launches into an engaging exploration of the historical and social intersections between Black and Jewish Americans. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Jewish HistoryCivil Rights MovementPbsHenry Louis Gates Jr.Black Jewish RelationsMichael TwittyPassover SederAngela BuchdahlSystemic InequalityJamaica Kincaid

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New York, United States
"Among those at the table with Looney are Angela Buchdahl, senior rabbi of New Yorks Central Synagogue; cookbook author and culinary historian Michael Twitty; writer Jamaica Kincaid; editor of The New Yorker David Remnick; and Rabbi Shais Rishon, also known as MaNishtana."
Selma, Alabama, United States
"It argues that the relationship between Black and Jewish Americans wasnt set in stone during the civil rights movement when Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel marched in Selma with Martin Luther King Jr., but was shaped by centuries of history, and continues to be shaped by oppression and white supremacy."

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