Among the honorees at the "Fighting Anti-Semitism and Racism Together” event will be renowned artist, musician and composer Wynton Marsalis, manager of New York’s Jazz at Lincoln Center program. (Erika Goldring/Getty Images, via JTA)

Blacks and Jews to Discuss Racism, Anti-Semitism and All That Jazz

A two-part series that will be webcast via YouTube and Facebook, “Fighting Anti-Semitism and Racism Together” aims to help unite the Jewish and Black communities through the power of music.

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Former Secretary of State Colin Powell (left) is shown here in 2001 with the late Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon in Jerusalem. (Getty Images/Pool photo, via JTA)

Colin Powell, Who Brokered the Middle East ‘Road Map’ to Peace, Dies at 84

The son of Jamaican immigrants who grew up in the Bronx, Powell was the first secretary of state to speak Yiddish as a second language.

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