In 1902, in a stuffy room on the Lower East Side, countless Jews testified to a local Indignation Committee about abuses suffered at the hands of New York City police officers. In our day, for perhaps the first time, many Americans are coming to terms with the abuses suffered by African Americans at the hands our nation's criminal justice system. Are these experiences similar? Different? What are the implications for white Jews’ particular role in the struggle for racial justice?
