Jones Day Foundation Community Series: A Place to Begin Again: An Interfaith Conversation on Conscience, Courage, and the Rising Tide of Antisemitism 

In a time when disinformation spreads faster than truth and hate too often finds a home, this evening calls us to conscience.  

Join us for A Place to Begin Again, a powerful interfaith conversation confronting the rising tide of antisemitism and the urgent need for moral clarity and civic courage in our time.  

This program brings together leading voices whose scholarship, reporting, and witness challenge complacency, deepen understanding, and actively shape the national conversation: 

Dr. Mehnaz Afridi, Muslim Holocaust scholar and Director of Manhattan University’s Holocaust, Genocide and Interfaith Education Center, whose groundbreaking work builds bridges across faiths and histories. 

Pastor Chris Harris, Sr., Senior Pastor of Bright Star and St. James Churches in Chicago and CEO of Bright Star Community Outreach and is a national leader in faith-based violence prevention and community transformation. 

Yair Rosenberg, Senior Writer at The Atlantic, acclaimed for his incisive reporting on digital disinformation, Jewish identity, and the role of faith in public life.  

Moderated by David Crary, Global Religion News Director at The Associated Press. With decades covering faith, democracy, and human rights — including years as a foreign correspondent — Crary brings a seasoned, global perspective to this essential dialogue.  

Together, we will examine how bias and hate persist in plain sight — and the cost of silence that shields them. We’ll explore how faith communities can build resilient bridges of understanding and how each of us can reclaim moral clarity and chart a courageous path forward. 

This is not an ending. This is A Place to Begin Again.  

Reservations required. Free to the public. 

Part of the Jones Day Foundation Community Series, a special series of events focused on confronting antisemitism and hatred in all its forms.