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Our 3 Boys of Freedom Summer 1964

Our 3 Boys of Freedom Summer Parashat Korach and the 50th Anniversary of the Freedom Summer Rabbi Jen Gubitz June 20, 2014 ~ 23 Sivan 5774 You can imagine the heat. The sun beating on backs, the sweat bea d ing on brows, the sense of justice boiling up in hearts. Equality! they fought! Integrity! was their demand. Brotherhood! was their expectation. A rebellion, really.  A rebellious hotbed of anger, violence, disenfranchisement.  A rebellious hotbed of faith, truth and hope. You can imagine the heat. Freedom Summer 1964. The sun beating on backs, sweat beading on brows of an African-American Christian and two white Jews. The sense of justice boiling up in their hearts under the politically hot sun of Mississippi as they worked to register African-Americans to vote. Freedom Summer 1964. You can imagine or maybe you remember it. A rebellion, really, of thousands of civil rights activists, many of them white college students from the North, many of th