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Article: Jews Warming to Sharpton? Opposition to Reverend May Be Waning
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- March 5, 1999
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Forward
03-05-1999
Jews Warming to Sharpton? Opposition to Reverend May Be Waning
NEW YORK -- The national director of the Anti-Defamation League, Abraham Foxman, shares a dais with the Rev. Al Sharpton. The city's erstwhile mayor, the Jewish Edward Koch, takes Al Sharpton to lunch and then co-sponsors a conference with him. Jewish activist Rabbi Avi Weiss says the Rev. Sharpton was "gracious" to him during a condolence call he made to the family of the unarmed Guinean immigrant shot to death last month by police officers.
Is Al Sharpton becoming kosher?
While many people in this city, including some Jewish leaders, city officials and black community activists, refuse to have any contact ...