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Foundation for Global Community
Statement
Overview of our volunteer education endeavors for the evolution of culture
History of Foundation for Global Community - Celebrating 60 Years
Watch January 2011 Closing Ceremony video
1970s: Early visions in art form and understanding
Thirteen Is A Mystical Number
Bless Man
Symbols
We Are One (10"x10" graphic)
Challenge to Change
Woman to Woman, Building the Earth
1980s and beyond
ONE -- Our interdependence and inter-connectedness with all life (10 min)
Changing and moving beyond war (1982)
BEYOND WAR AWARD videos (1983-1990)
Breakthrough: Emerging New Thinking (1988 epoch book - "enemies" cooperating)
Historic 1991 Israeli-Palestinian Initiative: Framework for a Public Peace Process
Watch 1991 first public announcement of the "public peace process" (4-1/2 min)
Watch 1991 TV news video (7 min)
Watch 1991 documentary - Israelis and Palestinians Building A Common Future (56 min)
Watch 1992 PBS TV documentary - JERUSALEM: The Bridge to Peace (56 min)
The 1993 Armenia - Azerbaijan Initiative
Earlier 1984 Armenia visit
Living Beyond War: A Citizen's Guide (2009 book))
Call for Decade of Cooperation (2010-2020) (pdf) (doc)
Our Jewish-Palestinian Living Room Dialogue Group
BRIEF HISTORY: Roots and progress of the Jewish-Palestinian Living Room Dialogue (7-min video - 2011)
The Public Peace Process
English ~ Arabic ~ Hebrew
Who We Are -- What We Do
(our detailed progress report)
Most recent, far-reaching steps we've supported:
Life Beyond Taking-Sides: Growing from blame toward empathy and community -- April 6, 2019
Public Library "Living Room Dialogues" -- September 2017
STORIES OF CHANGE: Creating a Culture of Connection in The Citizens' Century
2017 Commencement Address -- Notre Dame de Namur University
CROSSING LINES IN SAN MATEO (Community Engagement Circle) -- Sunday, 29 January 2017
Pre-deciding About Violence -- August 2016
2015 Season of Light Global Video Bridge -- December 07, 2015
2015 Parliament of the World's Religions -- October 2015
2014 Season of Light Three Continent Video Bridge -- December 06, 2014
California State University -- Campus Call to Dialogue -- September, 2014
RESPONSE TO BOKO HARAM:
Three Contemporary African Models of Citizen-Driven Engagement to Transcend Protracted Conflicts -- April 2014
Dialogue Communication graphics in Arabic, Hebrew, French, Russian, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Portuguese, and English -- December 2013
Dialogue Resources in French ~ Ressources de dialogue en français -- November 2013
NEW documentary film -- 20 YEARS OF PALESTINIAN-JEWISH LIVING ROOM DIALOGUE (1992-2012)
Season of Light Evening -- Dec 2, 2012 -- San Francisco, CA
First Screening -- DIALOGUE IN NIGERIA -- Mar 20, 2012 -- Harlem, New York, NY
NEW documentary film -- DIALOGUE IN NIGERIA: Muslims & Christians Creating Their Future
CALL FOR MUSIC VIDEOS -- Palestinian-Jewish Duos or Groups -- Summer 2011
NEW 2010 documentary film for high school students -- ABRAHAM'S VISION GRADUATION DAY!
2nd International Conference on Youth and Interfaith Communication -- Oct 22-24, 2010 -- Jos, Nigeria
CROSSING CULTURAL LINES -- Wednesday, March 17, 2010 -- University of California, Berkeley
NEW, how-to 2010 documentary film -- CROSSING LINES IN FRESNO
CROSSING LINES: Story as entry to relationship & change -- Thursday, October 1, 2009 -- Fresno, CA
CROSSING LINES: Sharing stories, Creating community -- Sunday, September 20, 2009 -- San Mateo, CA
Changing Lives in the Holy Land: Stories of loss, vision, and hope -- Wed, May 27, 2009 -- San Francisco
CROSSING LINES: Story as entry to relationship & change -- Tuesday, March 24, 2009 -- Charlotte, NC
CROSSING LINES: Story as entry to relationship & change -- Thursday, March 5, 2009 -- Cleveland, OH
A CALL TO DIALOGUE for Palestinians & Jews -- Tuesday, November 18, 2008 -- Houston, TX
CROSSING LINES: Story as entry to relationship & change -- Monday, November 17, 2008 -- Houston, TX
An Evening for The Arava Institute for Environmental Studies -- Tuesday, July 15, 2008 -- San Mateo, CA
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
The new T-shirt -- Palestinians & Jews LISTENING in Dialogue (July, 2004)
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 1990s 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
Gladys Wagman (1921-2018) 
Araxi Bezdjian (1945-2016)
Neil Gandler (1973-2015)
Carl Landman (1920-2011)
Gail Weinstein (1955-2010)
Maida Kasle (1918-2010)
Anne Davidson (1915-2008)
Carol Kittermaster (1931-2006)
Nadim Hanna Zarour (1950-2000)
What Others Are Doing . . . Successfully
(over 700 encouraging human success 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 (about 1980s South African model we adopted for future Dialogues)
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
The Hero's Journey: The Heroic Choice
The Song of Songs (inclusiveness)
Relationship with Earth (videos)
The Wombat (video about interdependence)
A Foundation of Identity
Expanding Identification
Responding to Crisis
The Tree of Life (song)
With Earth & Each Other (song)
Everyone Wants to Be Loved (song)
THE JOURNEY -- Its awe. Our responsiblity. (video)
Amateur Radio
Our Ham Radio Life as W6HJK
Russian Phrases for Amateur Radio
The Saving of Oleg
About our family and genealogy
LIBBY & LEN'S STORY: Their journey of cross-cultural dialogue
Libby and Len's story as a Commencement Address (May 2017)
THE NEST: To my children in Spring (March 1988)
Len's Marriage Blessing for Libby (August 1967)
THE ORECKOVSKY FAMILY: From Russia to America (Len's family tree book)
Remembering Duluth (Len's Aunt Ernestine's story about early 1900s Duluth, Minnesota)
Bernard & Nettie Weiss Silberstein: The First Jews of Duluth 7-1/2 min video (Len's great-grandparents)
Duluth Temple Cook Book (by Aunt Elsie, 1907))
Memoirs of Alexander M. Scott (1836-1921) (Libby's great-grandfather)
Libby's Mother Loved See's Candy
The Doll House
A Complete List of Our Ancestors
A Call to Dialogue 