tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1653992368546779574.post2931266362460661268..comments2024-01-30T02:37:28.387-06:00Comments on Notes from a Jewish Thoreau: No Rabbi Heschel in "Selma" movie? Inexcusable!Yonassan Gershomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07918610823274529036noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1653992368546779574.post-83430433424835682202018-10-22T18:12:59.620-05:002018-10-22T18:12:59.620-05:00You are correct. The photo is in Montgomery, not S...You are correct. The photo is in Montgomery, not Selma. Will fix that. But Rabbi Eisendrath apparently did carry a Torah from Selma to Montgomery. This article <a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-torah-marches-from-selma-met-20150731-story.html" rel="nofollow">www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-torah-marches-from-selma-met-20150731-story.html"</a> makes ref to it by a Rabbi Limmer in Chicago, who was inspired by the same photo and refs to it as "at the end of Selma." Unless the Torah didn't make the whole journey but was brought there afterward. I suppose you could ask Rabbi Limmer if he knows.Yonassan Gershomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07918610823274529036noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1653992368546779574.post-53291180087457033452018-10-20T14:56:28.116-05:002018-10-20T14:56:28.116-05:00Good day! Your article is excellent.
I wanted to p...Good day! Your article is excellent.<br />I wanted to point out that I think the picture you have with the gentlemen holding the Torah at the "Alabama State Capitol Building" is actually at the Arlington National Cemetery. That march was against the Vietnam War in Washington in February of 1968.<br />The only reason I wanted to comment was I am researching whether or not a Torah ALSO marched during Selma in 1965 and was wondering where your resource for that particular picture was.<br />Here is a link to a picture on Wiki of the Alabama State Capitol built in 1851: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alabama_State_Capitol<br />And here is the Arlington House Building/Robert E. Lee Memorial: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arlington_House,_The_Robert_E._Lee_Memorial<br />If you get a chance, could you please let me know of your resources? There's a LOT of erroneous information concerning this matter online, and I'm trying to find out the truth! Thanks again, so much. And again- great article!laurahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14661647294818155817noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1653992368546779574.post-42274412720875456572017-08-13T15:39:44.165-05:002017-08-13T15:39:44.165-05:00Could be. I think the Jewish value placed on educa...Could be. I think the Jewish value placed on education has a lot to do with it too. There is now a tendency to disparage mainstream edu as "white man"stuff. Which ends up hurting their own youth. Didn't used to be that way. Older people tell me they valued edu because they knew it was the way to success. Yonassan Gershomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07918610823274529036noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1653992368546779574.post-41864415084628906712017-07-29T00:55:45.991-05:002017-07-29T00:55:45.991-05:00Personally, I'm of the opinion, and my father ...Personally, I'm of the opinion, and my father actually agrees with me on this, is that DuVernay, like most African Americans, is bitterly resentful of the fact that most Jewish Americans are relatively comfortably wealthy and live in nice houses and other homes, whereas most African Americans, on the other hand, are actually relatively poor and thus live in the ghettos and the projects and are largely subsisting on welfare. In DuVernay's mind, she will only be happy if the black community is in the majority and the white community is in the minority.Michael Glickmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07562446123223229704noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1653992368546779574.post-67678820157584118192016-01-20T07:28:46.441-06:002016-01-20T07:28:46.441-06:00I am willing to bet this is one reason Selma got &...I am willing to bet this is one reason Selma got "snubbed" at the Oscars. Being about MLK does not automatically get Best Picture. Accuracy counts. DuVernay snubbed Heschel's legacy & her karma came back..Yonassan Gershomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07918610823274529036noreply@blogger.com