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Len and Libby TraubmanCitizen PeacemakersLibby and Len Traubman co-founded the 14-year-old Jewish-Palestinian Living Room Dialogue Group on the San Francisco Peninsula. These 30 women and men - Holocaust refugees and 20th generation Palestinians - after 178 meetings, continue learning how to change strangers into friends, "enemies" into partners. With face-to-face listening and relationship building, they initiate concrete projects that help people and invigorate the public peace process, here and overseas. Now there are six similar groups in the Bay Area, and they have helped start many dozens of others on campuses and in cities across North America and beyond.
Labor Day Week 2006, the Dialogue again partnered with Camp Tawonga, an 85-year-old Jewish community camp, for the 4th and largest-ever Palestinian-Jewish Family Peacemakers Camp in the California mountains near Yosemite National Park. It is the only cross-generational residential camp of its kind in North America, perhaps anywhere. They gathered 255 Jews and Palestinians, including 50 from 29 towns in the Holy Land, women and men equally.
Libby Traubman is a retired clinical social worker. In 1982, in response the threat of global nuclear war, Mrs. Traubman was a founding member of the Beyond War Movement. In 1992, she co-founded the Jewish-Palestinian Living Room Dialogue Group of San Mateo, California based on her earlier experience organizing the Beyond War conference for Israeli and Palestinian citizen-leaders which resulted in a historic signed document, Framework for a Public Peace Process. Libby is a Trustee of the Foundation for Global Community, and in 1994 was inducted into the San Mateo County Women's Hall of Fame.
Lionel "Len" Traubman retired after 36 years from his practice of Dentistry for Children in San Francisco. Dr. Traubman was regional alumni President of Alpha Omega Jewish dental fraternity, and received the 1998 Distinguished Alumnus Award of the University of California School of Dentistry, for whom he just gave the 2006 Commencement Address. He wrote and published THE ORECKOVSKY FAMILY: FROM RUSSIA TO AMERICA, depicting his pioneer ancestors' immigration following the first pogroms of the early 1880s. The book resides in 100 libraries in North America and Europe. For 25 years, Len has published on war and peace from personal experience with Russians and Americans, Armenians and Azerbaijanis, and Jews and Palestinians.Listen to Len and Libby Traubman's Interview
Len and Libby TraubmanCitizen PeacemakersLibby and Len Traubman co-founded the 14-year-old Jewish-Palestinian Living Room Dialogue Group on the San Francisco Peninsula. These 30 women and men - Holocaust refugees and 20th generation Palestinians - after 178 meetings, continue learning how to change strangers into friends, "enemies" into partners. With face-to-face listening and relationship building, they initiate concrete projects that help people and invigorate the public peace process, here and overseas. Now there are six similar groups in the Bay Area, and they have helped start many dozens of others on campuses and in cities across North America and beyond.Labor Day Week 2006, the Dialogue again partnered with Camp Tawonga, an 85-year-old Jewish community camp, for the 4th and largest-ever Palestinian-Jewish Family Peacemakers Camp in the California mountains near Yosemite National Park. It is the only cross-generational residential camp of its kind in North America, perhaps anywhere. They gathered 255 Jews and Palestinians, including 50 from 29 towns in the Holy Land, women and men equally.
Libby Traubman is a retired clinical social worker. In 1982, in response the threat of global nuclear war, Mrs. Traubman was a founding member of the Beyond War Movement. In 1992, she co-founded the Jewish-Palestinian Living Room Dialogue Group of San Mateo, California based on her earlier experience organizing the Beyond War conference for Israeli and Palestinian citizen-leaders which resulted in a historic signed document, Framework for a Public Peace Process. Libby is a Trustee of the Foundation for Global Community, and in 1994 was inducted into the San Mateo County Women's Hall of Fame.
Lionel "Len" Traubman retired after 36 years from his practice of Dentistry for Children in San Francisco. Dr. Traubman was regional alumni President of Alpha Omega Jewish dental fraternity, and received the 1998 Distinguished Alumnus Award of the University of California School of Dentistry, for whom he just gave the 2006 Commencement Address. He wrote and published THE ORECKOVSKY FAMILY: FROM RUSSIA TO AMERICA, depicting his pioneer ancestors' immigration following the first pogroms of the early 1880s. The book resides in 100 libraries in North America and Europe. For 25 years, Len has published on war and peace from personal experience with Russians and Americans, Armenians and Azerbaijanis, and Jews and Palestinians.Listen to Len and Libby Traubman's Interview