Mr. Jones spoke to a packed audience about the ongoing need for a Black/Jewish alliance. If you got to save American democracy, you first ask the question: Where did it come from?” Contemporary American democracy, Mr. Jones proposed, did not come from the framers of 1776, the American revolution or even the Civil War. “This is an extraordinary moral achievement on the part of two people, simultaneously, that make American democracy possible. To nurture an enduring Black-Jewish alliance, Mr. Jones co-founded the EXODUS Leadership Forum.