Today we are about 20 Palestinians and Jews, and 10 "others." Many participants have come and gone from our group, taking the experience with them. (Here is a photo.)
In 2007, after 191 meetings and fifteen years, with a clear mission and vision, we continue moving from caution to integrity, from alienation to familiarity, from ignorance to understanding, from resistance to response, from confrontation to collaboration. As a result, we have:
Learned about listening, integrity, persistence, and dedication.
Written joint letters to leaders in the United States and the Middle East, including over 90 leaders and opinion formers in Washington. The final contents of these messages were hard-won after much conflict, dialogue, then agreement, before we all placed our signatures.
Attended synagogue together, and placed a ground-breaking display of Palestinian art in a local temple.
Participated in our local Palestinian Cultural Days, and presented an educational table to inform and invite new Palestinians to participate.
Given public introductory presentations for new people. Typically 50-80 attendees sit at round tables, eating home-made Palestinian and Jewish food and becoming acquainted. Several of us give talks about our personal dialogue group experiences, before the people at tables began moderated, sample dialogues of their own.
Helped the local Israeli Consulate, at their invitation, with recent Jewish-Palestinian cultural activities which they have begun to initiate.
Sent $1,300 cash and $20,000 worth of medical equipment to help two hospitals, one in Gaza, and another in western Jerusalem.
Helped launch three new "spin-off" dialogue groups here in the Bay Area.
Were interviewed on a local television talk show for 30 minutes about the history, principles, and activities of our dialogue group and about the public peace process.
Raised $10,000 for schools in need, equally, in Netanya, Israel and Ramallah, Palestine. For their part, the two faculties began meeting in their own new face-to-face dialogue process.
Co-sponsored an educational fundraising event for Neve Shalom/Wahat al-Salam (Oasis of Peace), a model village where Jews and Palestinians live and learn together. Two hundred attended.
Published editoral articles On Passover and Peace and To Build a Common Future, A Missing Step in the Peace Process, and Palestinians, Jews can unlearn old habits in major metropolitan newspapers.
Sponsored "Building A Common Future", a historic, relationship-building dinner near San Francisco for 420 Jewish and Palestinian Americans, and others, to begin changing the nature of their relationships and invigorate the public peace process. About 100 attendees signed up to continue with in-home mealsharing groups.
Recorded a radio interview for the international broadcast of "Unofficial Channels: Dialogue for Middle East Peace," by the National Radio Project.
Provided a guest panel for University of California, Santa Cruz, students' first "Jewish-Palestinian Dialogue Workshop."
Helped educate high school classes studying Palestinian-Jewish conflicts and the value of dialogue in the public peace process.
Presented a workshop on dialogue, trialogue, and conflict resolution to teen "Future Leaders of the Jewish Community." (Syllabus available upon request.)
Assisted a synagogue Friday evening dedicated to peace -- Jewish-Palestinian dinner, Shabbos services, exhibits, and panel presentation.
Helped the 1998 San Francisco Jewish Film Festival with audience development for their North American premier of "AL NAKBA: The Palestinian Catastrophe 1948."
Provided a "Lunch and Learn" program for the Montefiore Senior Center of the Jewish Community Center.
Helped YES! Magazine publish an article, "Living Room Dialogues."
Held a quilting workshop to create squares for the travelling Middle East Peace Quilt of Elizabeth Shefrin, Vancouver, Canada, a fabric artist who teaches "Stitching for Social Change."
Co-sponsored with the World Affairs Council a public presentation for 350 by M.K. Dr. Yossi Beilin and Palestinian leader Faisal al-Husseini.
Provided an interview about our Palestinian-Jewish dialogue process for Planetary Dialogues on the Internet.
Sponsored and facilitated the First All-Bay-Area Meeting of Jewish-Palestinian Living Room Dialogue Groups.
Participated as panelists in "Dialogue Is Action," a 1999 conference of Stanford University, Office of Multicultural Education.
Helped financial donors identify worthy projects that join Palestinians and Jews in dialogue, and in activities that help change enemies into partners.
Mailed dialogue guidelines and relationship-building ideas to 1,295 individuals, including 717 institutions, 501 cities, 41 states, and 34 countries.
Used the Internet to forward encouraging news about successful Palestinian-Jewish collaboration, here and in the Middle East.
Organized a Spring dinner-ceremony: "A Celebration of Freedom for All the Children of Abraham, Hagar, and Sarah."
Helped students in high schools, universities, and graduate studies, by providing printed materials and personal interviews about principles and results of citizen relationship-building.
Celebrated our Third Annual Jewish-Palestinian Dinner in May, 2000 with music and dancing from both cultures, equally.
Helped a new San Francisco Dialogue Group get launched then, after two years, co-sponsored with the Jewish Community Center an evening Reception for 100 Arabs and Jews.
Provided media interviews, during the Fall, 2000, violent outbreaks, for local newspapers, radio, and TV, for CNN, and for Canadian radio, to communicate alternative ways of thinking and responding.
Helped a new dialogue group to begin in Silicon Valley, despite Middle East violence.
Offered program development assistance for the Christian Science Sentinel - Radio Edition broadcast, "Common ground for peace-building in the Middle East."
Provided invited panelists for the Sugihara "Do the Right Thing" Essay Contest sponsored by the Anti-Defamation League for San Francisco Public High Schools.
Provided a panel for a November, 2000 "Teens-only Middle East Forum" sponsored by the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco at the request of youth to expand their views.
Spoken at "Coming Together to Bridge Racial Differences", a community forum sponsored in part by the National Education Association.
Helped host a "Palestinian-Jewish Introductory Evening" at the Arab Cultural Center of San Francisco, to help begin a new dialogue group.
Made panel presentations, "Jews and Palestinians in Dialogue" on campuses: two at Palo Alto High School's "Worldfest 2001 -- The Worlds We Come From, The Worlds We Make," at Lincoln High and Piedmont High, and at San Francisco State University.
Supported students in presenting their first Palestinian-Israeli Awareness Week at the University of the Pacific.
Been radio talk show guests on a KGO-AM call-in program about listening, dialogue, and healing relationships in the Middle East.
Helped fund and promote PROMISES , the award-winning 2001 film depicting the difficulty and possibility of Palestinian and Jewish youth meeting face-to-face around Jerusalem. This film is a must-see.
Were guests on a TV public forum and live call-in broadast on "Voices from the Village," Community Television Channel 27, Santa Cruz, California.
Used videoconference technology to communicate between dialogue participants in California and Tennessee.
Contributed to "Jews and Palestinians Begin to Talk, in America" published Januray 19, 2002, in National Journal,
a trusted Washington, DC, professional resource for Members of Congress and their senior staffs, the Executive branch, federal agency executives, government affairs professionals, corporate and association leaders , and the political news media.
Contributed to "Jews and Palestinians Begin to Talk, in America", published Januray 19, 2002, in National Journal, a trusted Washington, DC, professional resource for Members of Congress and their senior staffs, the Executive branch, federal agency executives, government affairs professionals, corporate and association leaders , and the political news media.
Provided a Palestinian and Israeli speaker, and printed Dialogue guidelines, for students of the San Francisco Community High School Havurah.
Gave 2-hour panel presentations, with printed Dialogue guidelines for each attendee, for Sonoma Congregation Shir Shalom, San Francisco Congregation Emanu-El, and for the Ramallah Club, Portola Valley Presbyterian Church, Mendocino Coastside Jewish Community, and New Leaders Project of the J.C.R.C.
Helped MSNBC with a 3-hour living room filming for their April 30, 2002 broadcast segment, Learning to Listen, on Ashleigh Benfield's "Region in Conflict." A free, 10-minute videotape of that broadcast is now available. You can also see and hear it online in streaming video.
Contributed to NPR's "All Things Considered" in May, 2002 about how Americans are responding to the Middle East conflict.
Taught about Jewish-Palestinian Dialogue for a class, The Ethical Analyst, in the Public Policy Program of Stanford University.
Conducted an international half-hour teleconference with the U.S. Ambassador to Israel, on the occasion of our Dialogue's 10th birthday and 123rd meeting, to discuss both government and public peace processes.
Taught Dialogue workshops for the 2002 annual meeting of 1,600 Jewish educators at CAJE, the Conference on Alternatives in Jewish Education, the first time Jews and Palestinians participated together there. (response)
Presented two workshops, "Hearing the Other Side: Palestinians and Jews in Dialogue," for 220 Jewish community leaders at the Israel Summer Institute all-day, at the invitation of co-sponsors Jewish Community Federation, AIPAC, AJC, and New Israel Fund. (photos) (JCRC response)
Initiated a Jewish-Palestinian Dialouge All-Day workshop near Washington, DC, with a preceding dinner, for participants from 14 states, with roots in Israel, Palestine, Canada, and the U.S.
Gave a Dialogue presentation for 80 students at Georgetown University, co-sponsored by the Jewish Student Ass'n (JSA), Muslim Students Ass'n (MSA), Young Arab Leadership Alliance (YALA), Georgetown Israel Alliance (GIA), and the Students for Middle East Peace (SMEP). (photos))
Presented an October, 2002 Palestinian-Jewish Dialogue model for 200 students at the University of California, Berkeley, where their new campus Dialogue -- Salaam Shalom -- has begun, then at U.C. Santa Cruz..
Exhibited an educational table at Palestine Day.
Modeled Dialogue for the annual 2002 Shabbaton for Jewish university students, and for students at Mercy High School, Stuart Hall High School, and at St. Ignatius College Preparatory School.
Gave the lead-off presentation on "Dialogue As Activism" for FOSTERING DIALOGUE AFTER 9/11: CHANGES, OPPORTUNITIES & LESSONS LEARNED, a workshop co-sponsored by The Coexistence Initiative (TCI) and Transforming Violence.
Helped NASA develop their list of candidates for the first joint Palestinian-Israeli student research project in space, on the Space Shuttle Columbia, January, 2003. (CNN report) (Indymedia Israel) (Jerusalem Post article)
Walked twice as Palestinians and Jews with 200,000 other Americans in San Francisco, and millions of citizens in hundreds of cities worldwide, to say "no" to preemptive Middle East violence and "yes" to Dialogue and citizen creativity. (Jan. 2003 photos) (Feb. 2003 photos)
Made Spring 2003 guest presentations at the invitation of rabbinical and cantorial students at the Academy for Jewish Religion, and the annual national meeting of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical Association.
Met with a U.S. presidential candidate in April 2003 to help further imbed the principles and activity of Dialogue into government and national awareness.
Facilitated Dialogue and shared student stories to help transform relationships in a Communication class at Notre Dame de Namur University and for 6th-9th graders in a J.C.C. summer day camp.
Supported a student-initiated Arab-Jewish "Day of Mutual Recognition" in May, 2003 at the University of California, Berkeley.
Continued offering Introductory Presentations on Dialogue for newly interested people in public places and in living rooms.
Helped social entrepeneurial university students get media exposure and gather local Palestinians and Jews to obtain support for their creation -- Jazoor Microfinance -- to help lessen Middle East hopelessness and violence, and improve the people's economic future.
Convened Dialogue in Summer 2003 film festival atmospheres during the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival, featuring Galoot, and the Wine Country Film Festival featuring "The Olive Harvest."
Helped plan and discover participants for the September 2003 first Oseh Shalom~Sanea al-Salam Jewish-Palestinian Family Peacemakers Camp, for 45 adult and 24 youth attendees, and 50 staff participants, in the northern California mountains near Yosemite National Park.
Hosted an October 2003 living room Dinner-Dialogue for deepening and creative thinking in a Jewish home with Palestinian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Dr. Nabil Sha'ath, a participant in writing the original 1991 Framework For A Public Peace Process.
Hosted a November 2003 living room Dinner-Dialogue for connection and understanding in a Palestinian home with Mrs. Daniela and Dr. Yossi Beilin, co-framer of the Oslo Accords, former Israeli Minister of Justice, and co-creator of the citizen-initiated Fall 2003 Geneva Accord. (text of Accord) (articles about Accord).
Initiated a November 2003 in-home Lunch-Dialogue to better bridge to the Middle East with Moshe Ma'oz, Hebrrew University Professor of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies; advisor to Israeli Prime Ministers; and a participant in writing the historic 1991 Framework For A Public Peace Process.
Wrote a collective letter to the U.S. Department of State encouraging support for, and attention to, creative, citizen-initiated initiatives -- The Geneva Accord, Nusseibeh-Ayalon Statement of Principles, and OneVoice -- all adding clarity, and congruent with the spirit of The Roadmap.
Participated with other Dialogue groups in the December 2003 first All Bay Area Palestinian-Jewish Dialogue Season of Light Gathering for 170 attendees, young and old, who signed a letter to Heads of State -- President Bush, and Prime Ministers Qurei and Sharone. (photos)
Contributed to a February 2004 comedy presentation One Arab, One Jew, Two Funny Guys! by Rabbi Bob Alper and Ahmed Ahmed, to an appreciative, thoughtful audience of Jews and Palestinians, sponsored by the Arab-Jewish Dialogue of the South Bay, in northern California's Silicon Valley. (photos)
Partnered with "Breaking the Ice," the historic Israeli-Palestinian Antarctica expedition to offer four March, 2004 presentations on relationship-building in Washington, DC.
Encouraged and advised organizers of STEAMM -- Soulful Teens Exploring the Arts thru Music & Movement - Muslim and Jewish teens bridging to one another through story and the arts two months in Spring, 2004 (story), and helped Berkeley high school students who created an "Israeli-Palestinian Relations Workshop" for their community (story).
Contributed to the First Annual Northern California Dialogue and Deliberation Conference a participation experience, "Story As Entry to Dialogue." .
Co-sponsored a World Affairs Council presentation, Israel and Palestine: the Strategic Value of bringing Compassion into the Fire, initiated by the Compassionate Listening Project. (photos)
Created a new Dialogue T-shirt to communicate "Palestinians and Jews LISTENING in Dialogue" and "An enemy is someone whose story we have not heard."
Modeled and facilitated for U.S. and allied military officers "Story As Entry to Dialogue," for the new program "Security Building in Post-Conflict Environments" of the Department of National Security Affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, Calif. (photos)
Convened in Minnesota The First Midwest Palestinian-Jewish Dialogue Weekend for participants travelling from five states, concluding with attending together "The Children of Abraham Project" -- a stunning, uplifting stage performance by Muslim, Jewish, and Christian youth from Detroit, Michigan.
Conducted a featured workshop, "Jewish-Palestinian Living Room Dialogue: A How-to of Beginning, Sustaining, and Outreach" in October 2004 for the Second National Conference on Dialogue & Deliberation, Regis University, Denver, Colorado.
Created and published in November 2004 the first-of-its-kind cookbook, Palestinian and Jewish Recipes for Peace, a beautiful, illustrated 100-page volume of recipes for the meal table and for building human relationships at home and between peoples.
Presented to university students "A How-To for Story as Entry to Dialogue on Campus" for the Israel Student Leadership Retreat 2004, for the Israel Center of San Francisco's "Shabbaton."
Responded to requests for Palestinian and Jewish media interviews, upon the death of Yasser Arafat, for the San Mateo Times, San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Examiner, KRON-TV, KCBS-Radio, and NPR's "Weekend America." (Listen to streaming audio)
Provided panelists, then in-depth student Dialogue and listening experiences, for San Francisco's Lick-Wilmerding High School students studying "The Palestinian-Israeli Conflict: Understanding the Tensions and Envisioning Solutions." (photos)
Celebrated two Season of Light Palestinian-Jewish Dialogue Evenings in December, 2004 for the (1) combined San Francisco Dialogues (photos) and (2) joined San Mateo-Silicon Valley Dialogues (photos), with ethnic food, reflection, and ceremony.
Participated in a statewide all-day exploration -- Collaborative Governance in California: A Discussion Among Practitioners and Scholars on December 13, 2004 by invitation of the sponsoring William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, Menlo Park, Califorhia.
Initiated and facilitated An Assimilation Weekend:
North American camps for the Middle East public peace process -- to discover new social intelligence from the collective experience of conveners and counselors of camps that bring together Middle East youth learning new skills of communication and leadership. (First-of-its-kind 71-page illustrated Summary Report)
Invited concert musicians of "Art to the Nations" to demonstrate for the first time in the midst of Palestinian-Jewish Sustained Living Room Dialogue the profound power of music to further unlock the humanity of both peoples increasing the desire and ability of Jews and Arabs to connect with their own depths and with one another. (photos)
Wrote and mailed letters to government representatives asking to "consider both peoples equally" and encourage an "expanded citizen face-to-face public peace process" needed to "allow a treaty to succeed." (.doc format) (.pdf format)
Helped launch with Dialogue practices the Arab-Jewish cast of BLOOD RELATIVE, the leading-edge, created-from-the-ground-up ensemble theatre drama depicting the Palestinian-Israeli human conflicts and our capacity to embrace the various narratives -- thus simultaneously healing ourselves and our political conflict. (printed program excerpts) (KQED-TV streaming video report)
Spoke about Dialogue for a 15-minute KCBX-FM public radio interview in advance of a "weekend action" trip to San Luis Obispo for presentations at the public library and for Cal Poly university students, faculty, and administrators reported in The Tribune and Cal Poly's Mustang Daily and a local citizen's Web site.
Humanized the Middle East conflict for students, with May 2005 panel presentations of stories, followed by room Dialogues, in five separate World History classes a whole school day at George Washington High School, Fremont, Calif.
Contributed an effective model to the 2005 Shalom Papers, A Journal of Theology & Public Policy, in The Role of U.S. Regional and Local Religous Bodies in Supporting Peacemaking Efforts in Other Countries, published by Churches' Center for Theology and Public Policy. (read it here) (download in .pdf)
Locally co-sponsored a historic Transnational Internet Town Meeting for Peace called "The Powerful Voices of Religion and Civil Society," with Muslim, Christian, and Jewish citizen-leaders speaking from Jerusalem and Washington, and audiences in over 50 cities including the U.S., Europe, and South America.(view the program)
Appeared on local Midpeninsula community cable TV in a half-hour program to inform our community about Sustained Dialogue and about our many educational and social outcomes, like the first-of-its-kind cookbook -- Palestinian and Jewish Recipes for Peace -- and the Palestinian-Jewish Family Peacemakers Camp. (TV studio photos)
Participated as interview guests on RAINBOW, the English-language program hosted by Michael Brand for the grassroots Palestinian-Israeli 97.2 FM and Internet radio station All for Peace.
Were invited guests on local Arab television in August 2005 in a half-hour program to invite the Arab citizens into the expanding circle of relationship building here and overseas. (TV studio photos)
Consulted about citizen diplomacy and the public peace process at the request of the International Diplomacy Council of the U.S. Department of State, by meeting with the visiting Director of the Peace Building Institute of Jakarta, Indonesia.
Helped plan and facilitate the September 2005 Third Palestinian-Jewish Family Peacemakers Camp in the California mountains -- 140 tasted the future -- and the Monday night San Francisco public report-out, "Camp Stories," hosted at beautiful St. Mary's Cathedral.
Initiated in Louisville, KY the October 2005 Second Midwest Palestinian-Jewish Dialogue Weekend.
Offered "Models of Peacemaking Success" as part of a series -- The Art of Peace: Dialogues for Change -- at Gavilan College, Gilroy, California.
Presented Dialogue exemplars, showed the 28-minute video, TALKING PEACE, and facilitated audience participation for "Palestinians and Jews in Dialogue Locally and World-wide," the closing session of a month-long Fall 2005 program, "Ramadan/Tishri: Celebrating Muslim and Jewish Holy Months" at Santa Clara University.
Helped university students from various North California campuses learn to tell personal stories, exercise a new quality of listening, and experience peer relationships at a new depth at the 17th Annual Israel Student Leadership Retreat -- their Shabbaton to strengthen leadership skills.
Celebrated the Third All Bay Area Palestinian-Jewish Dialogue Season of Light Gathering for Dialogue participants and guests, with film, music, Middle Eastern food, success stories, and composer Lorenzo Toppano describing his creative process for his upcoming Broadway musical about the Palestinian-Israeli relatinship.
Spoke with an interfaith community on the call of religion to listening and relationship building in the midst of war, for "Waging Peace," a community gathering in Celebration of World Religion Day, January 15, 2006, held at a Catholic church, and co-sponsored by an Episcopal church and the Baha'is of Pacifica, California. ( article: Different creeds speak to same peace)
Provided living room news interviews for NBC and ABC TV, and local radio stations and newspapers, to reflect on the various meanings of the January 2006 elections in Palestine. ( NBC-TV photos ) ( ABC-TV photos ) (article) (radio news)
Supported and helped communicate stories for the February Immortal Chaplains Foundation dedicated to honoring the diverse, heroic women and men who sacrifice or risk their lives for others who are often of different religions, ethnicities and nationalities.
Videofilmed 50 high school students in May observing Dialogue participants in deep listening to one another's personal narratives, before the inspirred students themselves shared their own personal stories in dyads (pairs) with one another at Washington High School, Fremont, Calif. (photos) (article)
Hosted Voice of America radio in the living room to record portions of the May, 2006 Dialogue for VOA's global news broadcast -- Jews and Palestinians Talk Peace in a Living Room. (VOA audio broadcast and article) (photos)
Gave the 2006 Commencement Address for the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) School of Dentistry graduation ceremony, based on principles and history of Jewish-Palestinian Dialogue, and personal experience with a successful process of social change.
Provided Dialogue partners for public radio program "Friends Through the Fire" on Weekend America, during escalating Middle East violence.
Organized a July 2006 picnic for local Dialogue groups with music, food, and stories to celebrate 14 years and the 171st meeting of our oldest local Palestinian-Jewish Living Room Dialogue.
Gave in-depth, participatory workshop, "Story as Entry to Sustained Dialogue and Social Change" for the August 2006 international meeting of the National Coalition on Dialogue and Deliberation.
Provided summer 2006 interview guests for local radio and TV programs God Talk (KGO radio - 1 hour), Community Calendar (KPFA radio - 20 mins), and Bay Area Focus (KBHK-TV - 20 mins).
Helped convene the 4th Palestinian-Jewish Family Peacemakers Camp Oseh Shalom ~ Sanea al-Salam for 255 Jews and Palestinians of all ages, including 50 from 29 towns in the Holy Land, women and men equally.
Built new relationships and provided an educational exhibit at Palestine Day in San Franicsco on Sunday in October, 2006. (photos)
Advertised and supported presentations to local university students by young adult representatives of OneVoice from Palestine and Israel. (photos)
Traveled to Chico, California for three presentations: (1) "Listening from the Heart" for the Annual Dinner of the Chico Interfaith Council, (2) "Dialogue: A New Way to Communicate" workshop for Chico students and other citizens, and (3) "Camp Tawonga Peacemakers Week" Shabbat morning stories for Congregation Beth Israel. (news article)
Hosted the Third Season of Light Gathering at San Francisco's beautiful St. Mary's Cathedral for 100 Muslims, Jews and Christians -- including Palestinians from Gaza and the West Bank, and Jews and Palestinians from Israel and the United States. (photos)
Welcomed into a living room Palestinian and Jewish Israeli women of Beyond Words in December, 2006,to launch their two-week deepening experinece together in California. (photos)
Provided interviews for The People Speak Radio, hosted by Basima Farhat.
Helped volunteer-facilitate Challenge Day for middle school students to explore their lives and relationships, to learn tools and make decisions to improve their quality of communication at home and on campus.
Initiated and produced two new 2007 films -- DIALOGUE AT WASHINGTON HIGH (43 min - DVD) and PEACEMAKERS: Palestinians & Jews Together at Camp (83 min - DVD), to be gifted to educators and others who help build relationships among diverse citizens, communities and nations.
Published in The Jordan Times -- "Face to Face" calling in March, 2007, for citizens to engage one another and cooperate in this "Citizens' Century," and to move beyond being only passive spectators to governments.
Gave interviews for Peace X Peace ("peace by peace"), connecting womens groups (Circles) in the U.S. with womens Circles everywhere in the world directly via the Internet for the exchange of information and personal experiences that typically result in mutually supportive actions. (audio interview)
Provided a table of Dialogue resources and personal support to engage both Jewish and Palestinian students and faculty, at an April, 2007, noon rally sponsored by the Stanford Israel Alliance.
Facilitated Dialogue among Muslims, Christians and Jews in Chicago for The Jerusalem Project of The Global Reconciliation Conference 2007.
Hosted Palestinian & Israeli Students Learning Each Other's Historical Narrative:
A NEW KIND OF SCHOOL TEXTBOOK, a May 2007 public San Franicsco educational evening for 125 educators, students, and other citizens.
Created and hosted an educational booth at the June 2007 Book Group Expo in San Jose, Calif., to engage face-to-face large numbers of citizens about social change, and to disperse the Dialogue's two new educational videos.
Partnered with and advised Six Billion Paths to Peace of the Shinnyo-en Buddhist Foundation to inspire people everywhere to focus on interconnectedness and encourage daily contributions by citizens to create a more harmonious world..
Recorded a Sky Radio Network news interview for "America's Innovators" Talk Radio Show of American Airlines. It is the world's largest carrier of over 4 million business and leisure passengers each month. (Listen)
Provided three interviewees for a one-hour public radio broadcast about the history of the Jewish-Palestinian Living Room Dialogue, and about civic engagement, communication, and the process of change in the public peace process for KOPN 89.5 FM Community Radio for mid-Missouri. (HEAR podcast)
Gave telephone interviews for a public radio broadcast in August, 2007, on Deena Kolbert's "City Watch" of WBAI-FM New York about the Dialogue's two new videos and the October 2007 Fifth Oseh-Shalom ~ Sanea al-Salam Palestinian-Jewish Peacemakers Camp for Muslim, Christian and Jewish older teens and adults. (LISTEN - 18 min.)
Hosted a 4-day educational booth for 14,000 attendees of the 2007 annual conference of the American Psychological Association. (SEE PHOTOS)
Presented a four-day educational and relationship-building booth
among 40,000 Muslims at the 44th Annual Convention of the Islamic Society of North America, who screened our DIALOGUE AT WASHINGTON HIGH at their Islamic Film Festival, in Chicago, Illinois. (SEE PHOTOS)
Helped plan and convene the 5th Palestinian-Jewish Peacemakers Camp Oseh Shalom ~ Sanea al-Salam in October, 2007, for 150 Jews and Palestinians of all ages including 45 women and men -- Muslims, Jews and Christians from 32 towns in the Holy Land.
Provided facilitators for Engaging The Other: The Power of Compassion 2nd Annual International Conference, in Dearborn, Michigan, and were part of a panel -- The Energy Of Fear in Our Relationship With The Other.
Supported Crossing The Faith Line with a participatory 90-minute workshop -- Story As Entry To Dialogue -- during the Chicago, Illinois by gathering of 550 young adults and other interfaith leaders and educators by the Interfaith Youth Core (IFYC) in October 2007. (PHOTOS)
Created a classroom educator's guide -- STORY AS ENTRY TO RELATIONSHIP: Teachers Guide -- to be downloaded by teachers and facilitators worldwide. It is a companion teaching aid for our new, 2007 video DIALOGUE AT WASHINGTON HIGH.
Provided consultants and educational materials for "Preventing Trauma and its Effects" a November, 2007, Baltimore, MD conference for 1,000 practitioners, educators and researchers of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies.
Contributed story content to NPR's "Olive Oil Season: A West Bank Kitchen Story" in cooperation with Kitchen Sisters, broadcast Thanksgiving Day, 2007.
Contributed a Palestinian and a Jewish kitchen recipe to the November, 2007, issue of Trinity News Magazine -- an interfaith dialogue on religion and violence untangling the roots of conflict.
Provided facilitators for local Muslim and Jewish students to assimilate together their experiences of the exhibition "Coexistence Through Art" and community gathering planned in partnership by the Islamic Networks Group and Jewish Community Center of Silicon Valley to model peace through religious literacy and mutual respect.
Were radio interview guests for "Living Room Diplomacy" produced by American Public Media and broadcast December 1, 2007 on National Public Radio stations.
Staffed an educational booth for the National Council on the Social Studies to engage hundreds of U.S. and international educators face-to-face while gifting instructional DVDs, a Teacher's Guide, and other curriculum materials at "Crossing Borders, Building Bridges," their 2007 87th Annual Conference in San Diego, California. (Photos)
Created a year-end "Season of Light" progressive dinner-ceremony evening beginning in a Palestinian home with Middle Eastern food, then travelling down the street to a Jewish home for ceremony to celebrate a year of deepening and public outreach. (Photos)
Appeared on local Midpeninsula cable TV channels in the half-hour program Spirit Talk to inform our community about Sustained Dialogue and about the most recent educational and social outcomes, like the 2007 Palestinian-Jewish Family Peacemakers Camp, and the free, how-to videos, Teacher's Guide, and graphics of the Process of Change we offer to peacebuilders worldwide.
Provided radio talk show guests for 90 minutes on "God Talk" for San Francisco's KGO-AM, northern California's most powerful broadcaster -- an opportunity to talk about the process of change with a new quality of face-to-face citizen communication and not simply waiting for governments alone to re-direct history.
Contributed information to the Culture of Peace News Network to help expand the power of the Internet to build relationships and share useful experiences, resources and events that build a culture of peace.
Cooperated with BBC TV World News via Webcam and Skype to help create a global TV news broadcast to report the first anniversary of Radio Salaam Shalom: Muslims and Jews talking together, the Internet radio station in Bristol, England.
Facilitated the 3-hour opening session of the 2008 Beyond War annual national conference in Portland, Oregon, with the deepening workshop experience "Story As Entry to Relationship & Change."
Planned and presented a San Francisco public educational evening of the Israel~Palestine Center for Reaearch and Information (IPCRI) featuring Hanna Siniora and Gershon Baskin, the co-directors from Jerusalem, and hosted at beautiful St. Ignatius College Preparatory high school.
Exhibited how-to materials and served as panelists for "Demystifying Dialogue" as part of "Imagining A More Civil Society" a Washington, DC, national "summit" sponsored in March by Hillel for diverse university administrators, organizers, and students. (Photos)
Provided guest interviews for World Talk Radio on their weekly broadcast, Fix Your Conflicts.