John Lewis lauded for his decades of work campaigning for civil rights ; Anti-Defamation League calls Democratic lawmaker 'our nation’s moral compass'

Some 250 families benefit from holiday effort to collect food and toys for needy as community pulls together to show unity with action

Amar’e Stoudemire, now an undergrad at Florida International University who frequents campus Hillel, sees the similarities between the suffering of African-Americans and Jews