All the world’s babies are children of a single nation. They have a common language, a common past, common dreams.

The trauma of this war has wiped away compassion for the other. We need courageous voices, reaching between sides, to emerge.

More than 60 countries, with some 4 billion people, are set to stage national elections in 2024. That means roughly half the planet could go to the polls in what could be the greatest rolling spectacle of democracy in human history.

‘I think that in our souls, or our minds, or whatever you call it, there is something very complex, some ability to contain ambiguity, not to be swept with only one emotion. To be able to inhale the complexity of existing,’

One of our slogans is, "There is no movement without friction.” If we want to get things moving, obviously there will be differences of opinion about us. Standing Together is a stream of thoughts, from which we derive our actions.

We are blessed and cursed by not having a mother tongue,' said Amira Mohammed, one of the two Palestinian Israeli hosts of the new podcast Unapologetic: The Third Narrative.

'It may be nice to dream of one shared homeland, but Israelis will not give up their state. And Palestinians also need their own state, with the two strongly interconnected'…

We have all lost friends, co-workers, fellow congregants and family members because of our current fault lines and divisions… and the distance created by those acts and anthems seems unbridgeable. And maybe it is. But does it have to be?

How much do Americans really care about democracy? The disturbing answer: Less and less, especially among the young…

Faced with uncomfortable feelings, the pressure to get rid of them by doing something can make it hard to control our impulses and consider the consequences of our actions.

If we want to reverse the trend of radicalization, we cannot just talk about it. Instead of lamenting and making broad gestures toward peace and stamping out extremism, we have to provide actual alternatives...

This is the time to address Israelis in the spirit of mutual respect, hope, and truthfulness; to move beyond the dismissive, derogatory, and threatening words and deeds that define the relationship between Palestinians and Israelis, and between Arabs and Jews.

Clearly, it is difficult to talk about peace during wartime... But a peace initiative is the only way Israel’s ultimate security can succeed.

Kessler said, the last few weeks, following Hamas’s attack and Israel’s subsequent military operations, have been one of the most difficult, challenging periods of his life: 'We’re all trying to get our bearings.'…

In times such as these, characterized by heightened fear and distrust, inspiring examples of solidarity and cooperation have emerged. This has been a beacon of hope in these dark days.

I see our many human societies as living on a metaphorical sphere that is half in light and half in dark. The best goal of human striving is to live in the light and to help one’s own society and other societies to live in the light.

“We saw that there was enormous chaos and realized we must do something.”

We are broken, anguished, disheartened, enraged… but we will not be deterred from our mission of nurturing the next generation of Israeli, Palestinian, and American change-makers.

Van Gogh's last words were,

"The sadness will last forever."

He, who knew the dark. He, who nonetheless

painted stars within it.

Nearly three years after establishing diplomatic ties, representatives from a group of Arab countries and Israel met in Bahrain to brainstorm ideas about forming a regional free-trade alliance.