It’s not quite the right day- but, in America, we seem to opt for Monday holidays. So, today, not the 15th, we are honoring Dr. Martin Luther King. It is interesting to note that his last book turns out to be a most timely concept for discussion today.
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My shul took a trip. Oh, it took more than a few trips. We re-enacted the Selma to Montgomery m
arch (after David Duke threatened our shul). We went down to Houston to help after the floods. My rabbi personally visited the Mother Emmanuel Church after the terrorist gunned down 7 praying parishioners. We joined in the funerals for those gunned down at the Tree of Life/Or l’Simcha shul in Pittsburgh.
Today is actually Martin Luther King’s birthday. (No, it’s not next Monday. That’s just the convenient choice the government makes to provide a 3 day weekend.) Had he not been murdered (and, of course, still alive), he would be 90 today.
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It’s Black History Month. And, I wrote about Freedom House (1315 Duke Street, Alexandria) a year ago. During its 33 years of operation, some 1 million slaves were sold or traded from this building. Interestingly, these actions occurred even when Alexandria was part of the District of Columbia- Alexandria rejoined the Commonwealth in 1847, after 58 years of Federal Control. (The slave house actually operated from 1828 to 1861; that operation ceased when the US government forcibly took control over the city of Alexandria at the start of the Civil War.)
