Panel explores black-Jewish relations
Two highly regarded professors of cultural studies, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., of Harvard University, and Murray Friedman of Temple University, led a public discussion Tuesday night on African American-Jewish American relations.The McCosh 50 event marked the beginning of "Black-Jewish Relations Week," a project organized by the Princeton Committee on Prejudice."I think that horizontal discrimination between minority ethnic groups is overlooked sometimes and it's important that we're calling people's attention to this issue," said Lauren Phillips '04, moderator of the discussion.The audience was a racially diverse group, primarily of non-students.Both professors spoke of the particular, peculiar relationship between blacks and Jews."Black America needs allies more than it needs absolution," said Gates, chair of the African and African-American studies department at Harvard.