High School Honors Dr. King's Memory, Mission

BT High School students honored the memory and mission of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on Friday, January 15th through studying a variety of topics related to his teachings, as presented by our own High School faculty. The impressive program, planned by Ms. Rachel Levitt Klein’s Leadership senior elective class, included the following topics:

• Neuroscience of Prejudice, by Mrs. Deborah Rapoport
• Heschel and King, Dr. Valerie Thaler and Mr. Phil Jacobs
• The Literature of Prejudice, Mr. Paul Bolenbaugh and Mr. Michael Bruner
• “I Have a Dream”: Dr. King’s historic speech at the March on Washington, through the lens of rabbinic thought and Tanach, by Rabbi Mordechai Soskil
• Hopes and Dreams in Israeli Songs, by Mrs. Aimee Katz
• Human Biological Variation is Not Racial, by Dr. Barbara Amann, Dr. Adam Cornish, and Mr. Brian Nogay
• The Non-Violent Direction of the Civil Rights Movement, by Mrs. Debbie Allen
• Minorities in the Workplace, by Mr. Neville Jacobs
• Modern Racial Inequality and the Existence of White Privilege, by Mr. Casey Hill
• The Israeli-Ethiopians Fight for Equality, by Mr. Haggai Lavie
• Racism and Judaism, by Rabbi Benyamin Moss
• Songs of the Civil Rights Movement and the Music it Inspired, Mr. Jason Dougherty
• Black Lives Matter, by Mrs. Halaine Steinberg and Mr. Edward Taylor
• Mr. Joel Monroe: Parallel the Trajectory of MLK and Malcolm X through the Civil Rights Movement

The day also featured an inspiring panel discussion with Reverend Richard Mosley of Road to Damascus Ministries, Reverend Dr. Bernard Keels, Director of the University Memorial Chapel at Morgan State University, and Rabbi Etan Mintz, BT Judaic studies teacher and rabbi of B’nai Israel synagogue. The three shared their personal journeys to becoming men of God and how they are personally building upon Dr. King’s legacy.