The CSIS Smart Women, Smart Power Initiative, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs at Johns Hopkins SAIS, and Bridging the Gap are pleased to host the 2021 Future Strategy Forum, an initiative to connect scholars who research national security with its leading practitioners. Future Strategy Forum: National Security and Technology will feature an opening keynote speech on May 10 with Anne Neuberger, Deputy National Security Advisor for Cyber and Emerging Technology and a closing keynote discussion with Rose Gottemoeller, Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution on May 11, 2021, in addition to three panels over three days exploring national security and technology, plus a war game with the Hoover Institution’s Dr. Jacquelyn Schneider.
Black-Jewish dialogue in American needs a reset
Black-Jewish dialogue in American needs a reset
If we want our communities to truly partner again, we have to remember what made us partners in the first place not guilt, not resentment, not the color of our skin and not even oppression.
(January 20, 2021 / JNS) The Jewish community in America once had a proud history of alliance and partnership with the African-American community. Jews disproportionately engaged in and helped found significant parts of the civil-rights movement and counted African-American leaders among our proudest and most important allies in support of the State of Israel in its infancy. Increasingly over the last decades, the relationship between our communities has clearly fractured, and Jewish communal institutions have either focused somewhat obsessively on its repair or self-flagellated for the many ways in which it declared it hadn’t done enough to repair it. Either way, this broken bond has been a Jewish