Read an August 2010 study by the Maurice and Marilyn Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies at Brandeis University about how American Jews feel about Israel.

Len and Libby Traubman in San Mateo, Calif., began a living room dialogue involving Palestinians, Christians and Jews. Their Call to Dialogue invites others to do the same and offers ideas on how to begin. The Traubmans organized a Children of Abraham dialogue weekend in Duluth, Minn., in fall 2004.

Hands of Peace is a summer program in Glenview, Ill., that brings youth from all sides of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict together with American kids from Christian, Islamic and Jewish homes. The Middle Eastern teens receive year-round support to maintain connections when they return home. A trio of congregations (Jewish, Muslim and Christian) founded the camp, which […]

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 […]

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.

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 […]

Donald A. Hagner is a professor of New Testament at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, Calif., and an expert on Jewish-Christian relations and the history of the two communities.

Jim Sibley is director and co-founder of the Pasche Institute of Jewish Studies at Criswell College in Dallas. He served as National Coordinator of Jewish Ministry on the Interfaith Evangelism Team of the North American Mission Board for 10 years.  Prior to that assignment, Jim and his wife, Kathy, served as missionaries of what is now […]