This is the first installment of a 50-year timeline of American Jewish and Israeli peace activism since 1967 from the American Jewish Peace Archive (AJPA).
Why document a movement that has failed for 50 years to achieve its objective? The director of the American Jewish Peace Archive answers a tough question.
Jessie Zel Lurie began his interview with Aliza Becker for the American Jewish Peace Archive with these words: “I am 101 years old. I still write
Last week wasn’t the only time the Jewish Defense League wounded anti-occupation Jews and Palestinians. Peter Geffen was there in 1977 when it happened.
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“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.