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Shared Dreams: Martin Luther King, Jr. & the
Jewish Community
By Rabbi Marc Schneier
Preface by Martin Luther King III

Jewish support for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the American civil rights movement is widely known. However, this history has another side--one that has not been fully told until now. In the 1960s, while King was consumed in the fight for African Americans to secure full civil rights in this country, he made the time to speak out for the rights of Jews. On January 20, 2009, the day after Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, when Barack Obama was sworn in as the President of the United States of America, many of us reflected on King's legacy of social justice. How can Jews embrace MLK Day and help return social justice to the national agenda?

"King understood that a people who fought for their rights were only as honorable as was their concern for the rights of all people," writes Rabbi Marc Schneier in SHARED DREAMS: Martin Luther King, Jr. & the Jewish Community. "Jews should be proud of their participation in the civil rights struggle. They should hold that up as an inspiration to all generations: it is emblematic of what the sages call tikkun olam, the mandate for Jews to repair the world."

SHARED DREAMS presents the untold story of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s involvement with the Jewish community. Through the use of previously unpublished material and interviews with those who marched at King's side, the long-neglected story of mutual support between King and the Jewish community is brought to life. It is a story that will shed new light on the commitment and the relationship between the Jewish and African American communities as they have struggled together to fight for justice and civil rights in our nation. Even more, it is a story that encourages all of us--people of all faiths, all backgrounds--to continue to fight for justice in our world.

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Quinquennial Report

The Foundation for Ethnic Understanding (FFEU) is proud to introduce our first report on our pioneering work in Muslim Jewish relations. Since our first modest initiative in this field five years ago with a visit to a Muslim high school in New York, FFEU’s groundbreaking Muslim Jewish programming has expanded
around the world; bringing together tens of thousands of Jews and Muslims on five continents to engage with each other and to build ties of growing friendship and trust.

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2001-2002 Interethnic Directory

In our ongoing mission to promote dialogue, reduce tensions, and foster racial harmony between all communities, The Foundation For Ethnic Understanding has developed, this unique directory to promote cooperation in our home community. The 2001-2002 New York Interethnic Directory lists and categorizes a broad spectrum of organizations which actively work in the field of Intergroup relations. It is our hope that this directory will become a "yellow pages of racial harmony" allowing distinct communities and organizations in the New York metropolitan area the opportunity to connect, share similarities and differences, and build cooperative coalitions for the future of races, ethnicities, and creeds.