In 1969, as the civil rights movement collided with rising racial tensions in American cities, Rabbi Harry Halpern challenged Professor Eli Ginzberg's advocacy for racial quotas in higher education admissions. Halpern's critique emerged from the complex intersection of Jewish and African American experiences with discrimination, arguing that while both communities faced barriers, their circumstances demanded different solutions. Rather than implementing preferential quotas for Black students, which Halpern contended would generate new inequities, he proposed intensive tutorial programs to enhance academic preparation for merit-based college admission. Through comparative analysis of historical discrimination patterns, Halpern examined the emergence of Black anti-Semitism in urban centers like New York, demonstrating how incidents such as the teachers' strike were misconstrued as racial conflicts rather than labor disputes. His analysis revealed patterns of specific ethnic targeting rather than general anti-white sentiment. While affirming continued Jewish support for civil rights initiatives, Halpern concluded that Jewish communities must simultaneously defend against anti-Semitic attacks while rejecting disproportionate burden for remedying historical racial inequities.