At a meeting on November 29th, 2006, at the Presbyterian Center in Louisville, KY, leaders of three major North American Jewish denominations and the Presbyterian Church affirmed their common vision and pledged to continue to work together with other Jewish, Christian, and Muslim leaders for a just peace in the Middle East.

Read the statement.

JRF’s Executive Vice President, Dr. Carl Sheingold, signed the statement—issued December 1st and due to be released today—along with the Reverend Clifton Kirkpatrick, Stated Clerk of the General Assembly, Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), Rabbi Jerome Epstein, Executive Vice President of The United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism, and Rabbi Eric Yoffie, President of the Union for Reform Judaism.