All is Oneone Spirit
one Humanity
one Living System

We are an American family interested in expanding our identification to include and respect all
the cultures, races, nations, religions, and species.

Foundation for Global Community
   Overview of our volunteer education endeavors for the evolution of culture
   Changing and moving beyond war
   Breakthrough: Emerging New Thinking   ("Enemies" cooperating)
   The Armenia - Azerbaijan Initiative
   Historic 1991 Israeli-Palestinian Initiative: Framework for a Public Peace Process
            Watch 1991 TV news video  (7 min)

Our Jewish-Palestinian Living Room Dialogue Group

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                                                          Who We Are -- What We Do
                                                           (our detailed progress report)

   Most recent, far-reaching steps we've supported   
            Steps Forward in Jerusalem -- Thursday, March 13, 2008 -- St. Ignatius High School, San Francisco     
            Fifth Palestinian-Jewish Peacemakers Camp -- October 5-8, 2007 -- California     
            Learning Each Other's Historical Narrative:
                 A NEW KIND OF SCHOOL TEXTBOOK -- Thurs., May 10, 2007 -- San Francisco     
            NEW, inspiring 2007 films -- DVDs for school, home, camp, community:
                 DIALOGUE AT WASHINGTON HIGH  (and Teacher's Guide)
                 PEACEMAKERS: Palestinians & Jews Together at Camp
            Third All Bay Area Palestinian-Jewish Dialogue Season of Light Gathering -- Sun., Dec. 3, 2006     
            Fourth Palestinian-Jewish Family Peacemakers Camp -- September 1-4, 2006 -- California     
            2006 National Conference on Dialogue and Deliberation -- Aug. 4-6, 2006 -- San Francisco     
            Second All Bay Area Palestinian-Jewish Dialogue Season of Light Gathering -- Sun., Dec. 4, 2005     
            Second Midwest Palestinian-Jewish Dialogue Weekend -- Oct. 1-2, 2005 -- Louisville, KY     
            Third Palestinian-Jewish Family Peacemakers Camp -- September 16-18, 2005 -- California     
            10,000 Kites ~ Talking Kites in the Middle East, San Francisco, and beyond   (May 2005)
            First leadership gathering of North American camps for the Middle East public peace process   (January 2005)
            Palestinian & Jewish Recipes for Peace     An inspiring cookbook publishing first !!      (Winter, 2004)
            First Midwest Palestinian-Jewish Dialogue Weekend -- Sept 18-19, 2004 -- Duluth, MN     
            Twelve 2004 Jewish-Palestinian camps in North America     (Summer 2004)
            "Breaking the Ice" in Washington, DC -- March 18-23, 2004     
            First All Bay Area Palestinian-Jewish Dialogue Season of Light Gathering -- Sun., Dec. 7, 2003     
            Dialogue's November 2003 letter to the U.S. Department of State     
            First Palestinian-Jewish Family Peacemakers Camp -- September 12-14, 2003 -- California     
            "Day of Mutual Recognition" at University of California, Berkeley     (Spring 2003)
            Palestinian-Jewish Dialogue increasing at Georgetown University      (Fall 2002)
            National TV news coverage of Living Room Dialogue (streaming video) (Spring 2002)

   Earlier initiatives   
   Inspiring Spring Dinner and Ceremony   (1999)
   420 Jewish and Palestinian Americans Meet To Build A Common Future   (1997)
   The Middle East Schools Project we initiated  (1996)
   Jews and Palestinians Cooperate for Peace     (1996 article describing our early activity)

   Our deceased pioneer members   
   Anne Davidson   (1915-2008)    heartsmall.gif - 911 Bytes
   Carol Kittermaster   (1931-2006)    heartsmall.gif - 911 Bytes
   Nadim Hanna Zarour   (1950-2000)    heartsmall.gif - 911 Bytes

   What Others Are Doing . . . Successfully    (over 500 encouraging stories)

   THE PUBLIC PEACE PROCESS: Resources    (links, articles, video, audio, how-to, inspiration)

   Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) About Palestinian-Jewish Dialogue

   Others' Projects Needing Your Financial Assistance

Racial Reconciliation in Our Neighborhood
   Old-fashioned Potlucks Lead to New Friendships  (article describing local action)
   Our interracial meal-sharing group  (photo)

Portraits of Dedication
   The San Mateo County Women's Hall of Fame  (honoring women and young women of excellence)

The Individual Citizen
   On Idealism: One Person Can Make A Great Difference
   Earth Community as Myth and Motive  (Flash video)
   The Wombat   (interdependence)     New
   The Hero's Journey: The Heroic Choice
   The Song of Songs    (inclusiveness)
   A Foundation of Identity
   Expanding Identification
   Responding to Crisis

Amateur Radio
   Russian Phrases for Amateur Radio
   The Saving of Oleg

About our family and genealogy
   The Oreckovsky Family: From Russia to America  (Len's family tree book)
   Rembering Duluth  (Len's Aunt Ernestine's story about early 1900s Duluth, Minnesota)
   A Complete List of Our Ancestors

Len and Libby Traubman
1448 Cedarwood Drive, San Mateo, CA 94403
Voice: (650) 574-8303 Fax: (650) 573-1217
E-mail:LTRAUBMAN@igc.org

Our family photo    Photo of the newlyweds    The next generation
Grandma Libby & Niko     Auntie Eleanor & 2-year-old Niko     Our family in Fall, 2000
Niko in the Season of Light, 2000     Aunt Ellie & Niko, 3    Our family, December 2001
Thanksgiving, November 2002     Libby on Mother's Day, May 2003
Grandparents Libby and Len with Niko, Spring 2003
Our solar electric home, Summer 2003
Raychel's nursing school graduation, November 2003
Our vegetable garden, May 2004     Our family in March, 2005    New grandson Tyler, March, 2005
Olive Tree Harvest, October, 2005     Our family in Winter 2005-2006
Family Reunion, July 2007

Daughter Eleanor's blog -- CREATIVE TIMES: For People Who Think Outside the Box
Son Adam's editorial article about Opening Day of baseball
Grandson Niko, 10, on Surfer Magazine site


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