Making Peace In Our World
Rabbi Miriam Berkowitz was born and raised in Montreal. She earned a BA magna cum laude in International Relations from Harvard University in 1993 and an MA and Rabbinic Ordination from the Schechter Institute in Jerusalem in 1998 as well as a D. Th. in Clinical Pastoral Counseling, Certification as a Chaplain in Israel and the USA, and an Israeli Tour Guide License. She served as Assistant Rabbi at Park Avenue Synagogue in Manhattan for three years and spent seven years in Florida as an adult educator before returning to Israel in 2008 where she co-founded and directed Kashouvot: Advancing Pastoral Care in Israel to pioneer chaplaincy/spiritual care in Israel. She has taught academic courses at several colleges and Seminaries (Hebrew College’s Palm Beach campus, GTU, AJR, HUC, and IDC), appeared on Israeli television, and taught in a myriad of scholar in residence and informal education settings. Miriam is the author of Taking the Plunge: A Practical and Spiritual Guide to the Mikveh and various other articles and publications including pieces in the Women’s Torah Commentary, Jewish Lights Spirituality Handbook, Mount Sinai Journal of Medicine and Journal of Pastoral Care. She is currently completing a book about Jewish sources related to Peace. She is on the editorial board of Masorti: The New Journal of Conservative Judaism and was a member of the Conservative Movement’s Committee on Jewish Law and Standards for ten years. Miriam guides and performs lifecycle events for visitors from all over the world and teaches online and as a scholar in residence, trying to connect people with the rich history and culture of Israel and all its cultural groups.
Lee Gordon is founder of Hand in Hand: Center for Jewish-Arab Education in Israel, an Israeli non-profit organization that has created a network of integrated public schools serving Arab and Jewish children. Starting with just 50 students in 1998, Hand in Hand now has six campuses across Israel and over 2,000 Jewish and Arab students enrolled, and is making a growing impact in Israel for Jewish-Arab partnership and shared society. Lee is Jewish and a native of the U.S. and lived for 20 years in Israel, where he received a Masters Degree in Social Work from Hebrew University and graduated from the Mandel Institute’s School for Educational Leadership. His years of involvement in the peace movement in Israel as well as Jewish-Arab and Israeli-Palestinian dialogue work, propelled him to establish Hand in Hand, and in 1999 to create American Friends of Hand in Hand, a non-profit American organization supporting the organization’s work in Israel. Lee now lives in the U.S. West Coast city of Portland, Oregon with his wife and children and continues his work raising support and awareness for Hand in Hand via the American Friends of Hand in Hand.
Stacie Stufflebeam is a the Mother of five sons, four of them are reservist lone soldiers in the IDF. She serves as Executive Director of the Michael Levin Lone Soldier Foundation and lives with her husband in the USA.
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