Most commonly, the public face even on positive Jewish-African American relations has been inscribed as largely male. Michael Lerner and Cornel West, though they mention gender, do so in booming patriarchal voices. It took years before they invited a woman to join their public conversations, and though their choice of partner—Susannah Heschel, Director of Jewish Studies at Dartmouth and daughter of Rabbi Heschel—is apt, might not the gentlemen have also included an African American woman? What about an African American Jew?