Being Black and Jewish in America: Brandeis Symposium Explores a

Forward, April, 1994 by Susan Miron

Susan Miron Forward 04-22-1994 Being Black and Jewish in America: Brandeis Symposium Explores a Double. Identity `I usually introduce myself as `Robin Washington, I'm black and a Jew.' I want to put my identity in your face; I want you to deal immediately with who I am," grinned the 37-year-old independent film-maker and managing editor of Boston's African-American weekly Bay State Banner.

Mr. Washington, who proudly displayed "the first kente cloth kippah," just sewn by his wife, was the first of three speakers at a symposium "On Being Both Black and Jewish" held at Brandeis University last week. "We're who America's becoming," said Mr. Washington, who estimates that there are 200,000 black Jews in America today, up from 50,000 in the '50s. "I think we offer...

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