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Groups and Individuals Working on Jewish Issues

Hechal: Jerusalem Centre for Universal Spirituality

Hechal is a non-profit organization with the aim to anchor the concept and principles of Universal Spirituality and Right Relations in Jerusalem.The Centre provides Meditation and Psychosynthesis training for beginners and advanced students.

It works towards Right Relations on the personal and the societal level, with groups such as Israelis and Palestinians; Jews, Muslims and Christians; religious and secular people – according to the principle of Unity in Diversity.

One of the tasks of the Centre is to promote a better understanding of Jewishness, from an esoteric perspective, through meditative inquiry. Courses and study groups are offered for secular and religious Jews and also for non-Jews. Hechal holds regular Full Moon meditations and participates in various meditation initiatives locally and globally.

Tikkun (Rabbi Lerner) and the NSP (Network of Spiritual Progressives) Four basic tenets: 1. Foster a New Bottom Line of love, generosity & ecological sensitivity in our economy, education, media, & government. 2. Foster a new global consciousness and solidarity. 3. Promote awe, radical amazement, gratitude & developing an inner spiritual life. 4. Challenge the misuse of God & religion by the Religious Right and religio-phobia on the Left.

Search for Common Ground - Common Ground News Service Fills Media Void Provides Outlet for Voices of Moderation. Was created in 2000 to amplify constructive and thoughtful voices on Muslim-Western issues and the Arab-Israeli conflict. It has had nearly 7,000 reprints in 650 publications around the world, and has developed a vast network of contributing scholars, politicians and citizens across the Middle East, Europe, Asia and the United States.

The New Israel Fund The New Israel Fund is a leading organization committed to equality and democracy for all Israelis. They are a partnership of Israelis and supporters of Israel worldwide, dedicated to a vision of Israel as both the Jewish homeland and a shared society at peace with itself and its neighbors.

Young, Jewish and Proud: Jewish Voice for Peace The Young Jewish Declaration is a project created by young leaders within Jewish Voice for Peace, America’s largest Jewish grassroots peace group dedicated to reaching a just peace between Israelis and Palestinians based on the principles of equality and international human rights law.

Jerusalem Peacemakers Jerusalem Peacemakers is a network of independent interfaith peace-builders dedicated to encouraging understanding and reconciliation in the Holy Land.

The Wasatia Movement A term from the Quran which means centrism, balance, moderation, justice, temperance. Vision: A peaceful more tolerant secure world. Mission: To advocate the application of the wasatia approach and values as a critical tool for peaceful coexistence, development, and prosperity.

The Carter Center Former US president, Jimmy Carter's work for world peace, hunger, disease and building hope. Carter has been involved with Middle East peace negotiations for many years.

NION Not In Our Name. Jewish Voices Against Israel's Wars. We came together to form the Not In Our Name (NION) network in Toronto, Ontario, during the summer of 2006, in solidarity with the people of Lebanon and Palestine against Israel’s wars and in opposition to the complicity of the Canadian government with Israel’s criminal actions.

Combatants for Peace We are a group of Israeli and Palestinian individuals who were actively involved in the cycle of violence in our area. The Israelis served as combat soldiers in the Israel Defense Forces and the Palestinians were involved in acts of violence in the name of Palestinian liberation. We all used weapons against one another, and looked at each other only through weapon sights; however today we cooperate and commit ourselves to the following:

1. We no longer believe that the conflict can be resolved through violence.
2. We believe that the blood bath will not end unless we act together to terminate the occupation and stop all forms of violence.
3. We call for the establishment of a Palestinian State, alongside the State of Israel. The two states can exist in peace and security one by the other.
4. We will use only non violent means to achieve our goals and call for both societies to end violence.

Norman G. Finkelstein (from Wikipedia) ... "is an American political scientist, and author. His primary fields of research are the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the politics of the Holocaust. He is a graduate of Binghamton University and received his Ph.D in Political Science from Princeton University. He has held faculty positions at Brooklyn College, Rutgers University, Hunter College, New York University, and, most recently, DePaul University, where he was an assistant professor from 2001 to 2007."

Alan Hart has been engaged with events in the Middle East and their global consequences and terrifying implications – the possibility of a Clash of Civilisations, Judeo-Christian v Islamic, and, along the way, another great turning against the Jews – for nearly 40 years. As a correspondent for ITN’s News At Ten and the BBC’s Panorama programme (covering wars and conflicts wherever they were taking place in the world) As a researcher and author. As a participant at leadership level, working to a Security Council background briefing, in the covert diplomacy of the search for peace.

Gilad Atzmon (Born in Israel) Jewish identity is tied up with some of the most difficult and contentious issues of today. The purpose in this book (The Wandering Who?) is to open many of these issues up for discussion. Since Israel defines itself openly as the ‘Jewish State’, we should ask what the notions of ’Judaism’, ‘Jewishness’, ‘Jewish culture’ and ‘Jewish ideology’ stand for. Gilad examines the tribal aspects embedded in Jewish secular discourse, both Zionist and anti Zionist; the ‘holocaust religion’; the meaning of ‘history’ and ‘time’ within the Jewish political discourse etc.

Jews Against Zionism "True Torah Jews is a non-profit organization formed by a group of religious Orthodox Jews dedicated to informing the world and the American public and politicians in particular, that the idealogy of Zionism is in total opposition to the teachings of traditional Judaism."

"We implore and beseech our Jewish brethren to realize that the Zionists are not the saviors of the Jewish People and guarantors of their safety, but rather the instigators and original cause of Jewish suffering in the Holy Land and worldwide. The idea that Zionism and the State of “Israel” is the protector of Jews is probably the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the Jewish People. Indeed, where else since 1945 have Jews been in such physical danger as in the Zionist state?!"

Noam Chomsky [From Wikipedia] "... is an American linguist, computer scientist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, and activist. He is an Institute Professor and Professor (Emeritus) of in the Department of Linguistics & Philosophy at MIT. Chomsky has been described as the "father of modern linguistics" and a major figure of analytic philosophy. His work has influenced fields such as computer science, mathematics, and psychology." He has also written much on Israel and the Middle East from his unique perspective of being Jewish.

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