CAM and the African American Mayors Association launch new national fellowship

CAM and the African American Mayors Association launch new national fellowship

This new national fellowship will rejuvenate the historic alliance between Black and Jewish communities in the United States

African American Synagogue Brings New Traditions to DC

Rabbi Shais Rishon grapples with the question of what it means to be an African American Jew. On his mother’s side, his African American Jewish heritage dates back to the 1870s, and on his father’s, he’s second-generation. He grew up Chabad in Brooklyn (“and got better,” he jokes)—and even lived next door to Rabbi J.J. Hecht, assistant and translator of the Lubavitcher Rebbe Menachem Mendel Shneerson. Yet, his decision to become a rabbi came fro…