On
the evening of Thursday, January 12, 2006, the Embassy
of Israel, in cooperation with the Religious Action
Center of Reform Judaism, hosted a ceremony at the
Embassy commemorating the life and work of Dr. Martin
Luther King, Jr.
At the ceremony, Dr. Carolyn Goodman and Richard Womack
were presented with the 2006 Civil Rights Leadership
Awards. The keynote address was given by the Reverend
Jesse Jackson Sr. and Israel's Ambassador to the United
States Daniel Ayalon delivered remarks.
Photo: Leigh H. Mosley
During his remarks Ambassador Ayalon noted "We gather
this evening as we have for the last 20 years to pay
homage and tribute to the life and work of the Rev.
Martin Luther King Jr. Rev. King was a modern day
prophet, a veritable reincarnation of Jeremiah or
Isaiah, as well as an American patriot"
Reflecting on the common experiences of Jews and African
Americans Rev. Jackson observed, "We have both known
slavery, we've known exile, we've known the hand of God
as the key to survival."
Above: 2006 Civil Rights Leadership Award recipient
Richard Womack (Photo: Leigh H. Mosley)
Dr. Carolyn Goodman is a long-time civil rights activist
and mother of Andrew Goodman, who along with Mickey
Schwerner and James Chaney, was murdered in Mississippi
in 1964. Richard Womack is Assistant to the President of
the AFL-CIO and former Director of the AFL-CIO's Civil,
Human and Women's Rights Department.
Above:
2006 Civil Rights
Leadership Award recipient Dr. Carolyn Goodman (Photo:
Leigh H. Mosley)
Previous recipients of the Civil Rights Leadership
Awards include; Dr. Dorothy Height, Del. Eleanor Holmes
Norton, Kweisi Mfume, Ralph Neas, Raul Yzaguirre, the
Honorable William H. Gray, Albert Vorspan, Dr. Benjamin
Hooks, Hugh Price, Diana Aviv, Hilary 0. Shelton,
Theodore Bikel, and Rabbi David Saperstein.
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