Mark your calendar for the New Jewish Agenda multigenerational gathering on Memorial Day weekend. The following text was sent out by Clare Kinberg on October 15, 2015. Write her at [email protected] to receive future updates. New Jewish Agenda Reunion May 28-30 2016…
From the Knesset floor, Stav Shaffir condemns Prime Minister Netanyahu's failed policies in reaction to a spate of vigilante stabbings against Jews in Israel.
The Reconstructionist Rabbinical College revoked their ban on students with non-Jewish or intermarried partners.
Theodore Meir Bikel, z”l, human being extraordinaire, actor, singer, activist, and peace pioneer died on July 21, 2015 at the age of 91. May his memory be for a blessing. Two months before he died, on May 6, 2015, I…
A eulogy to the pioneering Middle East peace advocate I.M.A. Lederer (formerly known as Inge Lederer Gibel.)
"You can be more effective by staying behind the scenes. If you don' t need to take credit for what you do, you can accomplish five times as much."
Tom Smerling began to bring mainstream Jewish leaders into the peace movement in 1989 through his behind-the-scenes strategic leadership of Project Nishma.
Jerome Segal founded an Israel-Palestine peace lobby in 1989 that won what is today $10 million annually to support Jewish-Arab reconciliation projects.
You've likely never heard of Rosalie Riechman Pressman, whose work in the early 70s reverberates today.
[pullquote]Surprisingly, the story of this nearly 50-year-old movement has never been told, leaving the present generation without lessons that can inform today’s activists.[/pullquote]Welcome to the first blog posting from The American Jewish Peace Archive: Stores of Israel-Palestine Peace Pioneers (AJPA).…