The North American Jewish Data Bank is a repository of social scientific studies of the Jews of North America.

Susan Hayward is associate director of the Religious Literacy and the Professions Initiative at Harvard University, teaching quarterly workshops to all incoming foreign service officers at the U.S. State Department on religious literacy for diplomacy and development. Formerly, she was the program officer of the Religion and Peacemaking program at the United States Institute of Peace, […]

David Perry is director of the Vann Center for Ethics at Davidson College in Davidson, North Carolina.. He teaches courses on ethics and warfare and on world religions in strategic context, and he writes core-course lessons on ethical reasoning and ethics of the military profession. His publications include “Why Hearts and Minds Matter: Chivalry and Humanity, […]

The American Jewish Yearbook offers information and analysis about the American Jewish community, Jewish demography, Jewish history and Jewish life worldwide from 1899 to the present. It is produced annually by the American Jewish Committee. Data from 1899-2008 is available for free online. More recent editions are available for purchase.

Andrea Bartoli holds the Drucie French Cumbie Chair of Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University in Arlington, Va. His publications include “Christianity and Peacebuilding” in Religion and Peacebuilding. He has been involved in many conflict resolution activities as a member of the Community of Sant’Egidio.

The Jewish Reconstructionist Movement, previously the Jewish Reconstructionalist Federation, contains hundreds of resources based on the values, beliefs and history of Reconstructionist Judaism. It is operated by the Reconstructionist Rabbinical Council. Email through the Reconstructionist Judaism website.

The Union of Orthodox Rabbis of the United States and Canada, or the Agudath Harabonim, is an association of Haredi rabbis. It was once a part of the Orthodox Union but split away in 1901. The association does not have a website.

J. Dudley Woodberry is professor of Islamic studies at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, Calif. He co-edited Muslim and Christian Reflections on Peace: Divine and Human Dimensions.

Gary M. Simpson is a professor of systematic theology at Luther Seminary in St. Paul, Minn., and director of the seminary’s God-in-Global-Civil-Society Project. He wrote the 2007 book War, Peace and God: Rethinking the Just-War Tradition.