The Haftarah Reading That Inspired Martin Luther King Jr.’s ‘I Have a Dream’

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Click Here to Read: The Haftarah Reading That Inspired Martin Luther King Jr.’s ‘I Have a Dream’: King’s speech draws on a part of Isaiah that Jews recite after Tisha B’Av—offering a model for revitalizing his mission By Charles Kopel on the Tablet Website on January 13, 2015.

People walk past a stone marking the spot where Martin Luther King Jr. made his 1963 speech on the steps on the Lincoln Memorial. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

Click Here to Read: The Plot for America: Remembering Civil Rights Leader Joachim Prinz: The influential Newark rabbi was a confidante of Martin Luther King, but he’s been all but ignored by history By Allan Nadler on the Tablet Website on nFebruary 25, 2011,