Through this summer and fall we’re inviting you on a journey to help us all navigate the fault lines between our communities. Together, we will digest a variety of books and films that will help us explore and better understand what is at stake for Muslims, for Jews, for Palestinians and for Israelis.

To give us a framework to critically evaluate and understand these stories, we’ll start with Amanda Ripley’s book “High Conflict”, which will help us identify – in ourselves, our communities, and one another’s communities – how deepening polarization and entrenched cognitive biases increase danger for all of us. These biases and blind spots, along with stark power imbalances, greatly influence discourse and policy. We need to talk about it. 

With this foundation, we will watch several films that convey specific stories and experiences that some of us may not have encountered, or rejected out of hand. Each story is limited in its perspective while it seeks, sometimes imperfectly, to share issues that need acknowledgement. To help us reduce harm to one another’s communities we need to understand these issues as well as analyze the messaging around them.

These will not be easy conversations, but they can help us to see more of the picture with greater clarity, so we may help move our communities in more constructive directions. We hope you’ll click here to learn more and consider joining us on this critical journey. 

 RSVP and see the lineup here.