Rabbi Deborah Brin and the Nahalat Shalom Jewish community are involved in peace and reconciliation work in Albuquerque, N.M.

Rabbi James L. Mirel is chair of the Washington Coalition of Rabbis. He co-authored, with local Muslim and Christian leaders, a Seattle Times column urging moderate Jews, Christians and Muslims to persuade the American government to engage actively in pursuing peace between Israelis and Palestinians. He is rabbi of Temple B’nai Torah (Reform) in Bellevue, Wash.

Rabbi Herbert Bronstein is senior scholar at North Shore Congregation Israel, a metropolitan Chicago congregation where he was senior rabbi for some 25 years. He teaches at the religion department at Lake Forest College, is nationally active in the interfaith community and formerly served on the board of the Council for a Parliament of the […]

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 […]

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

Thomas Leininger is a professor of religious studies and head of the Catholic Studies Department at Regis University, a Jesuit school in Denver. He can comment on the use of Passion plays and their impact on Christian-Jewish relations.

Rabbi Michael J. Cook teaches at Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati and is author of the collection Images of Jesus in Medieval Art: Influence of the Middle Ages on Contemporary Passion Plays (The Center for Jewish-Christian Learning, 1995). He is an expert on Christian-Jewish relations. Cook prefers to correspond by email.

The Rev. Stanley L. Davis Jr. is co-executive director of the Council of Religious Leaders of Metropolitan Chicago, as well as executive director emeritus of the Chicago and Northern Illinois Region of the National Conference for Community and Justice, now named the Chicago Center for Cultural Connections.

The Rev. John Pawlikowski is a professor of social ethics at the Catholic Theological Union in Chicago. He is a veteran of Christian-Jewish dialogue and author of many books and essays on the topic.