CLICK HERE for a recording of the excellent Shared Legacies PANEL DISCUSSION featuring Rabbi Ariana Capptauber, Reverend Earl Harris, Doctor Susannah Heschel, filmmaker Dr. Shari Rogers, and moderator Jeanette Krebs.
Ariana Capptauber, rabbi at Beth El Temple in Harrisburg, PA, has been absorbed in social justice and civil rights issues since high school. Along with other Jewish and Black teenagers, she learned about the shared civil rights activism of the two communities through Operation Understanding in Washington, D.C. Later she worked at an anti-gun violence organization in Brooklyn, Save Our Streets, which was a project of the Community Mediation Center, itself founded to foster a relationship between the Black and Jewish communities in Crown Heights.
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Susannah Heschel is the Eli M. Black Distinguished Professor and chair of the Jewish Studies Program at Dartmouth College. She is a prolific and noted author, a Guggenheim Fellow among other such honors, and, as the daughter of theologian Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, she is both the custodian of his work and his representative, particularly at gatherings of Civil Rights leaders.
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Earl Harris, after graduating from Howard University, participated in the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in Mississippi in 1964. While attending law school the following year, he worked for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, filing employment discrimination complaints afforded by Title VII of the nascent Civil Rights Act of 1964. Twenty-two years as Senior Pastor at St. Paul Missionary Baptist Church in Harrisburg, Harris was the co-founder, with Rabbi Cytryn, of Beth El Temple's annual Freedom Seder.
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CLICK HERE for a recording of the excellent Shared Legacies PANEL DISCUSSION featuring Rabbi Ariana Capptauber, Reverend Earl Harris, Doctor Susannah Heschel, filmmaker Dr. Shari Rogers, and moderator Jeanette Krebs.
Ariana Capptauber, rabbi at Beth El Temple in Harrisburg, PA, has been absorbed in social justice and civil rights issues since high school. Along with other Jewish and Black teenagers, she learned about the shared civil rights activism of the two communities through Operation Understanding in Washington, D.C. Later she worked at an anti-gun violence organization in Brooklyn, Save Our Streets, which was a project of the Community Mediation Center, itself founded to foster a relationship between the Black and Jewish communities in Crown Heights.
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Susannah Heschel is the Eli M. Black Distinguished Professor and chair of the Jewish Studies Program at Dartmouth College. She is a prolific and noted author, a Guggenheim Fellow among other such honors, and, as the daughter of theologian Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, she is both the custodian of his work and his representative, particularly at gatherings of Civil Rights leaders.
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Earl Harris, after graduating from Howard University, participated in the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in Mississippi in 1964. While attending law school the following year, he worked for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, filing employment discrimination complaints afforded by Title VII of the nascent Civil Rights Act of 1964. Twenty-two years as Senior Pastor at St. Paul Missionary Baptist Church in Harrisburg, Harris was the co-founder, with Rabbi Cytryn, of Beth El Temple's annual Freedom Seder.
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