I've never felt more loved and respected than during my recent trip to Israel, where I was struck by the sense of empathy that most Israelis feel for American Blacks, whom they consider to have endured similar trials of bondage and exclusion. On the shared history of exclusion between Blacks and Jews, Rev. Martin Luther King observed: "My people were brought to America in chains. Your [Jewish] people were driven here to escape the chains fashioned for them in Europe. Our unity is born of our common struggle for centuries, not only to rid ourselves of bondage, but to make...
