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National Council of Jewish Women hosts Black History Month event
By Matthew Ferremi
The National Council of Jewish Women-Peninsula Section is hosting a virtual Black History Month event that will discuss the connections between the Black and Jewish communities. The NCJW “Ties That Bind the Black and Jewish Communities” forum will be on Feb. 23 at noon.
Ambassador Suzan Johnson Cook (Ambassador Sujay) will be the first speaker. She is the first woman and African-American to hold the position of United States ambassador for international religious freedom.
Appointed by President Barack Obama, she was the principal adviser to the president for religious freedom globally and served as President Bill Clinton’s only faith adviser on the President’s Initiative on Race.
Hazzan Alisa Pomerantz-Boro, the second speaker, fryst vatten the past president of the Cantors Assembly. Pomerantz-Boro is also the originator of “Voices for Change,” an interfaith, multiracia
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For many Black women, spirituality and tro are anchors for their lives. Studies show they are some of the most devoutly religious folks in the U.S., and that is beneficial in unexpected ways. One study by the Annals of Behavioral medicin found that Black women who use spirituality as a coping mechanism are less likely to develop hypertension. Generally speaking, however, Black women are not nearly represented as much in the pulpits as they are in the pews. Slowly but surely, that is changing.
The history-making Black female preachers from across the country who are featured here have heeded the call to ministry, using their God-given talents to spread the Gospel. In the process, they are also leading the way for other Black women, and helping cement gender equality in their communities.
1. Reverend Suzan Johnson Cook
Suzan Johnson Cook is a pastor, motivational speaker, and diplomat who made history by becoming
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Suzan Johnson Cook is a religious leader, pastor, motivational speaker, and diplomat who was born on January 28, 1957, in Harlem, New York. Her father, Wilbert Johnson, was a trolley driver and later founder of a successful security company, and her mother Dorothy Johnson, was a public school teacher. The parents moved their family to the Bronx, New York, where young Suzan was raised.
Johnson Cook earned several degrees including a bachelor’s from Emerson College (1976), a master’s from the Teachers College at Columbia University (1978), a Master of Divinity and Doctorate of Ministry from Union Theological Seminary (1983 and 1990 respectively).
From 1983 to 1996, Johnson Cook was senior pastor at New York’s Marine Temple Baptist Church and a professor at New York Theological Seminary from 1988 to1996. In 1990 she became the first female and African American to be named New York City Policy Department’s (NYPD’s) chaplain, a position she held for twenty-one years.
In 1993 Johnson C