Jewish communal leaders simply must recognize the need for us (right now!) to listen and learn, honor and engage, struggle and sit with all of these issues, narratives, experiences...for our sake collectively as a Jewish people, and specifically as American Jews.
Lindsey B. Mintz
Executive Director, Indianapolis JCRC
I appreciated the opportunity to deepen my understanding of the conflict without being told what I should think or what I should do about it. Instead, I was given a diverse community of colleagues with whom I could debrief and figure out for myself how to incorporate what I had encountered into my leadership.
Miriam Heller Stern
Director, School of Education, Jewish Institute of Religion, Hebrew Union College
It's a powerful and necessary experience.
Lindsey B. Mintz
Executive Director, Indianapolis JCRC
Essential and transformative.
Rabbi Angela Buchdahl
Senior Rabbi, Central Synagogue
Encounter gave me an opportunity that I had long been missing: to listen to the stories, perspectives, and experiences of Palestinians living in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. As a passionate supporter of Israel who yearns for peace, this experience was critical to a more complete understanding of the complexity of this land…
Rabbi Adam Raskin
Senior Rabbi, Congregation Har Shalom
