An Outsize Impact — A Review of Cleveland Jews and the Making of a Midwestern Community

January 25, 2021.Reading time 13 minutes.

Martin, Sean and John J. Grabowski, eds. Cleveland Jews and the Making of a Midwestern Community. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2020. Reviewed by Avigail Oren Despite having lived in Pittsburgh for nearly a decade, I love Cleveland. This is anathema in my adopted home, though the source of animosity between the two cities […]

From Community Action to Community Policing: The Ford Foundation and the Urban Crisis, 1960-1975

July 16, 2019.Reading time 18 minutes.

By Sam Collings-Wells On July 16, 1970, McGeorge Bundy circulated a letter to various US Senators informing them of the Ford Foundation’s “major new program to help strengthen and modernize the exercise of police function in urban areas.”[i] He was referring to the establishment of the Police Foundation, an independent organization which was allocated an […]

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An Outsize Impact — A Review of Cleveland Jews and the Making of a Midwestern Community

From Community Action to Community Policing: The Ford Foundation and the Urban Crisis, 1960-1975