{"id":169439,"date":"2022-03-23T12:43:07","date_gmt":"2022-03-23T16:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jewishexponent.com\/?p=169439"},"modified":"2022-03-23T12:43:07","modified_gmt":"2022-03-23T16:43:07","slug":"ketanji-brown-jackson-mentions-black-jewish-civil-rights-alliance-at-hearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jewishexponent.com\/ketanji-brown-jackson-mentions-black-jewish-civil-rights-alliance-at-hearing\/","title":{"rendered":"Ketanji Brown Jackson Mentions Black-Jewish Civil Rights Alliance at Hearing"},"content":{"rendered":"
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U.S. Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson testifies during her confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee in the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill on March 22. (Chip Somodevilla\/Getty Images via JTA.org)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

By Ron Kampeas<\/p>\n

WASHINGTON \u2014 Whether he meant to or not, Republican Sen. Ted Cruz gave Ketanji Brown Jackson, President Joe Biden\u2019s Supreme Court nominee, an opportunity for a breather in the middle of a contentious day of confirmation hearings on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Cruz, who spent most of his 30-minute questioning session trying to corner Jackson on issues such as critical race theory, asked what Jackson meant when she says she praises the \u201csocial justice\u201d values that are exemplified by the private school her children attend.<\/p>\n

In her response, Jackson said she was proud to serve as a board member \u2014 and opened up about the school\u2019s origins as a Jewish-Black civil rights alliance.<\/p>\n

\u201cGeorgetown Day School has a special history that I think is important to understand when you consider my service on that board,\u201d Jackson told Cruz.<\/p>\n

She went on:<\/p>\n

The school was founded in 1945 in Washington, D.C., at a time at which by law there was racial segregation in this community. Black students were not allowed in the public schools to go to school with white students. Georgetown Day School is a private school, that was created when three white families \u2014 Jewish families \u2014 got together with three Black families and said that despite the fact that the law is set up to make sure that Black children are not treated the same as everyone else, we are going to form a private school so that our children can go to school together. The idea of equality \u2014 justice \u2014 is at the core of the Georgetown Day School mission.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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