"This is a wake-up call for Speaker Pelosi and others: We aren’t going to sit idle while leaders who speak up for Palestinian rights are attacked in such a hostile way."...
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Just two years after voting to divest from companies that profit from Israel's occupation by a narrow margin, the Presbyterian Church passed a series of powerful overtures committing the Church to taking action...
Read MoreApril 18, 2016 Rev. Dr. Susan Henry General Board of Church and Society of The United Methodist Church 100 Maryland Avenue, NE Washington, DC 20002 Dear Rev. Henry: We write to you, together, as Palestinian-American Christians and Muslims and American...
Read MoreJewish Voice for Peace congratulates the United Methodist Church for taking the unprecedented step of divesting from Israeli banks that sustain Israel’s illegal occupation of Palestinian land. The Pension and Health Benefits Fund...
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This week, American Jews are participating in a series of nationally coordinated actions against Islamophobia and racism to mark the eight days of Chanukah with a rekindling of their commitment to justice....
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In Genesis we read: Jacob woke from his sleep and said, surely God is in this place, and I did not know it! It happened for me like that too. Well, maybe not...
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We join people around the world who are grieving from acts of mass violence over the past week–in Beirut, Paris, Palestine, and Raqqa. And not just there...
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“Where is peace? Wherever you let peace in! I cannot stand here before you today, without praying that the wounds of the holocaust and genocide for all people are healed, and that there...
Read MoreRabbi Lynn Gottlieb addresses the 2015 Parliament of the World's Religions in Salt Lake City....
Read MoreIn light of the current climate of rampant Islamophobia, we at Jewish Voice for Peace were disgusted to learn that anti-Muslim hate groups have called for a “Global Rally for Humanity” outside at...
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