Liliane Kshensky Baxter is director of the Lillian and A.J. Weinberg Center for Holocaust Education at the William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum in Atlanta. Baxter is a member of the executive committee of the national Jewish Peace Fellowship, and she is former national chairwoman of the Fellowship of Reconciliation/USA. She was previously director of Nonviolence Training […]

John S. Friedman is rabbi of the Judea Reform Congregation in Durham-Chapel Hill, N.C. He has received awards for his activism in peace and social justice causes. He has been president of Durham Congregations in Action and the Mid-Atlantic Association of Reform Rabbis and has chaired the Interreligious Affairs Committee of the Central Conference of […]

The Seeds of Peace summer camp first convened in Otisfield, Maine, in 1993 to bring Arab and Israeli teenagers together. Today, the camp empowers young leaders from the Middle East and other regions of conflict with leadership skills directed toward reconciliation and coexistence. Contact founding director Tim Wilson.

Jerry Kutnick is dean for academic affairs at Gratz College in Melrose Park, near Philadelphia. Kutnick is an expert on the history of Zionism in America.

Reconstructionist congregation Mishkan Shalom in the Manayunk-Roxborough section of Philadelphia draws members from all over the area for its commitment to social justice, to the survival of Israel and to the belief that Jews and Palestinians need to recognize and support each other’s right to national self-determination. Contact Rabbi Linda Holtzman.

Rabbi Gerry Serotta is a former chair of Rabbis for Human Rights – North America and works as the executive director of Clergy Beyond Borders.

Ellen Lippmann is founder and rabbi of the Kolot Chayeinu congregation in Brooklyn. The congregation identifies itself as comprising individuals of varying sexual orientations, races, family arrangements, Jewish identities and backgrounds sharing the search for meaningful expression of Judaism.

Historian and Middle East expert Mark Rosenblum directs the Michael Harrington Center at City University of New York’s Queens College. He teaches “The Middle East and America: Clash of Civilizations or Meeting of the Minds,” in which Jewish and Muslim students learn the opposing group’s history in the Middle East conflict and must support the […]

The Massachusetts Council of Churches’ website lists Jewish organizations and contacts involved in Middle East peace work.