Marcella White Campbell is the executive director of Be’chol Lashon, an organization that has advocated for the racial and ethnic diversity of the Jewish people for more than 20 years.
Marcella White Campbell
By Marcella White Campbell
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Opinion Diverse families like mine are the Jewish future
As we move towards the 54th anniversary of Loving v. Virginia, the landmark Supreme Court ruling that legalized interracial marriage across the United States, I’m consistently reminded that, throughout American history, the fortunes of the multicultural and multiethnic family have been inextricably linked to legal definitions of race. Hundreds of thousands of Americans have died…
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Community As A Black Jew, I Am Angry But Defiant After Pittsburgh
This piece originally appeared on the Be’chol Lashon Jewish& blog and was shared with us by My Jewish Learning, a sister site of JTA. SAN FRANCISCO (JTA) — On Saturday, I received a text: “why do they hate us so much?” It was from my daughter, a first-year student at college who is thousands of…
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