Joel Beinin is the Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History, Emeritus at Stanford University. He taught Middle East history at Stanford University in 1983-2006 and 2008-2019 and directed the Middle East Studies Program at the American University in Cairo in 2006-08. In 2001-02 he served as president of the Middle East Studies Association of North America.

Marcy Boroff has spent her career working to improve access to education and health. This work closely aligns with her work around Israel-Palestine. Marcy is a member of Mishkan Shalom (Philadelphia PA) and has served on the Board, was chair of the Membership Committee, and is currently chair of the Israel-Palestine Committee.

Julia Greenberg lives in Madison, Wisconsin where she and her family are members of Congregation Shaarei Shamayim. Over the past few years, she has greatly valued the programming offered by RECIP and is glad to be helping it continue into the future. She is an instructor in the Department of Psychology at University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Sue Lanser

Diana Ralph founded Independent Jewish Voices Canada (IJV) in 2008 and led it for 10 years. A  former board member of Or Haneshamah (Ottawa,ON), she served on the Reconstructionist Joint Israel Commission.  She is a retired Assoc. Professor of Social Work at Carleton University, an author, and an activist.  

Julia Shatz is an associate professor of history at California State University, Fresno, specializing in the history of the modern Middle East. Her research examines social welfare, childhood, gender, and colonial governance in twentieth-century Palestine. 

Rabbi Brian Walt was ordained by the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College in 1984. He is the founding rabbi and rabbi emeritus of Congregation Mishkan Shalom in Philadelphia and was the founding executive director of Rabbis for Human Rights – North America. He was a fellow of the Dorothy Cotton Institute and led a delegation of American civil rights leaders to the West Bank in 2012. He is a member of the Rabbinical Council of Jewish Voice for Peace. 

Rabbi Laurie Zimmerman has served Congregation Shaarei Shamayim in Madison, WI since 2003 and is a graduate of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College. In 2015 she published a curriculum for children and teenagers entitled “Reframing Israel: Teaching Kids to Think Critically About the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict”. She is currently writing a book on Israel-Palestine Education.