Summit for student leaders aims to promote more unity between Black, Jewish communities

(JNS) — The pro-Israel student group Maccabee Task Force organized its first three-day conference to help strengthen the relationship between Black and Jewish communities.

Roughly 100 people from historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) attended the Black Student Leaders Summit, which was held from Oct. 1-3 in Atlanta, where many of the student leaders were based.

The goal of the summit was to help re-establish an alliance that has increasingly split in the last decade as a result of politics and various social movements in the United States.

David Brog, executive director of the M...