About Us
Staff, Board and Advisory Committee 
Press Praise for Our Work
The Jewish Dialogue Group is a non-partisan, grassroots organization that formed in November 2001 to foster constructive dialogue within Jewish communities about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Since 2006, we have also been offering dialogue sessions that focus on other controversial, difficult issues, such as the war in Iraq.
Our board members, volunteers, and advisors have many different political perspectives, on the conflict and on other issues. As an organization, we do not take positions on any issues, but focus solely on promoting dialogue.
We are teachers, rabbis, students, librarians, writers, film-makers, editors, mediators, community organizers, café workers, construction workers, and artists. We come from many different streams of Judaism: Conservative, Reconstructionist, Orthodox, Reform, Renewal, and Secular. We are Ashkenazi and Mizrahi; fourth generation Philadelphians, and recent immigrants from Israel and Australia.
To date, the Jewish Dialogue Group has facilitated more than 140 dialogue sessions involving approximately 1000 people. We have led dialogues at eight synagogues; Haverford College, Jewish Theological Seminary, Swarthmore College, Temple University, the University of Pennsylvania, and West Chester University; two high schools; a summer camp; in private homes, and in many other locations.