by Michael Lerner and Cornel West

About the authors: Michael Lerner is editor and publisher of the liberal Jewish journal Tikkun. Cornel West is a professor of Afro-American studies and the philosophy of religion at Harvard University. Lerner and West are also coauthors of Jews and Blacks: Let the Healing Begin.

Michael Lerner: Do African-American progressives have a strategy for how to overcome the anti-Semitism that does exist and how to confront the problems being faced by inner-city Blacks"

Cornel West: As to anti-Semitism, the first step is to get our community to acknowledge that there is a problem. You have to convince people that it is a problem. Black people are facing so many difficult issues today—Blacks don’t have enough resources, and food and housing and health care and so forth...