FILM: “I SHALL NOT BE SILENT – RABBI JOACHIM PRINZ

For Weequahic students as a part of February Black History Month activities. Alumni invited, but arrangements with Myra Lawson, Executive Director, of the WHS Alumni Association need to be made prior to the date of the event.

Rabbi Prinz was the rabbi for many years at the majestic Temple B’nai Abraham synagogue on Clinton Avenue in Newark. He also marched with Dr. Martin Luther King in the 1960s and was the speaker at the March on Washington who spoke prior to Dr. King’s famous “I have a dream” speech. The documentary was produced and directed by Rachel Pasternak and Rachel Fischer. Pasternak’s mother, Claire Mayers Nierenberg, is a 1958 Weequahic grad.