What Hank Greenberg’s friendship with Jackie Robinson can teach us today
Who would have imagined that some 70 years after the Greenberg-Robinson exchange, it would be an African-American athlete who would call out his own community on prejudice against Jews?
From left: Jackie Robinson, Hank Greenberg, Zach Banner and DeSean Jackson(photo credit: CARMEN MANDATO/HULTON ARCHIVE/KATHARINE LOTZE/GETTY IMAGES/JTA)ByRABBI ELLIOT COSGROVE/JTA