The Open House in Ramle - a peace education center in Ramle, Israel
 

Latest Stories

  • Summer Camp 2023Summer Camp 2023

    Summary of the 2023 summer Camp by Lutfia Gnime   The Peace Camp of Open House was held between July 3rd and July 21st, 2023, the Arab-Jewish camp that has existed for many years with the aim...Read more »
  • Summer Camp 2022Summer Camp 2022

    This year's summer camp was between the 3rd to the 21st of July, 2022. The Ramle municipality provided the grounds of the YRF learning center and we could accept 80 participants to full...Read more »
  • Summer Camp 2021Summer Camp 2021

    We are delighted to share with you what was happening at our end during 2021. First of all, the Ramle Municipality offered us the YRF grounds (Youth Renewal Fund) for our Summer Camp in Ramle...Read more »
  • Summer Camp 2019Summer Camp 2019

    Now for the 27th year our summer camp this year took place between the  1st of July to the 19th for 98 Arab and Jewish children between the ages of six to thirteen. We had...Read more »
 

Books


Buy the newly released book by Yossi Klein Halevi, chairman of the board of Open House:

Muslims in the Holy Land, William Morrow, 2001

Click on a title below to buy it online.

Click here for international shipping rates at Powells.com and Amazon.com

Authors affiliated with OPEN HOUSE and its Friends

Voices From Jerusalem: Jews and Christians Reflect on the Holy Land, Paulist Press, 997 Macarthur Blvd., Mahwah, N.J. 07430.

Edited by David Burrell and Yehezkel Landau. Landau is International Relations Director of OPEN HOUSE.

Holy War, Holy Peace, How Religion Can Bring Peace to the Middle East, Oxford University Press, 2002

(view the book’s website) by Rabbi Professor Marc Gopin

Between Eden and Armageddon: The Future of Religion, Violence and Peacemaking, Oxford Press, (2000)

by Rabbi Professor Marc Gopin

Psychology and Social Responsibility: Facing Global Challenges

by Paula Green, with chapters by Sally Mack

Going Home

by Frank T. Griswold

Violence and the Value of Life in Jewish Tradition, Oz Veshalom Publications, English Language Series #2, l985.

Edited by Yehezkel Landau

Islam: A Search for Meaning, Mazda Publications, Costa Mesa, CA

by Imam Faisal Abdul Rauf

Sabbatical Reflections

by Brita Stendahl

The Bible and the Role of Women

by Krister Stendahl

Paul Among Jews and Gentiles

by Krister Stendahl

Big Book Of Jewish Humor

by Moshe Waldoks

Personal Accounts

To Be An Arab in Israel, l975.

by Fawzi al-Asmar

Selected Poems, edited and newly translated, 1986.

by Yehuda Amichai

Blood Brothers, l984.

by Elias Chacour

Caught In Between, an autobiography

by the Rt. Rev. Riah Abu El-Assal, Anglican Bishop in Jerusalem.

Walking the Red Line: Israelis in Search of Justice for Palestine, 1992.

Edited by Deena Hurwitz, Preface by (the late) Rabbi Marshall T. Meyer, with an essay by Yehezkel Landau

If Only My People….Zionism in My Life, 1986.

by Sir Immanuel Jakobovits, Chief Rabbi of the British Commonwealth

My Home, My Prison

by Raymonda Tawil

Phoenix Over the Galilee, Ka-Tzetnik, l966.

by 135633 [the late author Yechiel DeNour who, with his wife Nina De Nur, was a pioneer in organizing Jewish-Arab dialogue groups in Israel, and wrote anonymously under his concentration camp number before revealing his identity at the trial of Nazi leader Adolph Eichman]

Recommended Reading for Background

The Press and Politics in Israel, The Jerusalem Post from 1932 to the Present, 1994.

by Erwin Frenkel (former Jerusalem Post editor)

From Beirut to Jerusalem, l989.

by Thomas L. Friedman

Israel, A History, (Morrow, 1998).

by Martin Gilbert

The Yellow Wind, [prophetically published on the eve of the l967 war], 1967.

by David Grossman

Sleeping on a Wire: Conversations with Palestinians in Israel

by David Grossman

No Trumpets, No Drums: A Two-State Settlment of the Israeli- Palestinian Conflict, the Foundation for Middle East Peace,1991.

by Mark A. Heller & Sari Nusseibeh

Palestinians: The Making of a People, 1993.

by Baruch Kimmerling & Joel S. Migdal

The Israel-Arab Reader, (A Documentary History of the Conflict), l970.

by Walter Laquer

Judaism, Human Values and the Jewish State, 1992.

by Yeshayahu Leibowitz

A Land of Two Peoples, Martin Buber on Jews and Arabs, 1983.

edited with commentary by Paul R. Mendes-Flohr

Traditional Islam in the Modern World, l987.

by Seyyed Hossein Nasr

The Challenge of Shalom, The Jewish Tradition of Peace and Justice, Essays, 1994.

edited by Murray Polner and Naomi Goodman

The People of Nowhere, The Palestinian Vision of Home, which makes reference to the story behind Open House, 1991.

by Danny Rubenstein

The First Israelis, 1989.

by Tom Segev

Friendship and the Ways to Truth

by David B. Burrell

Original Peace

by David B. Burrell

The Heart of Stillness

by David Cooper

The Secular City

by Harvey Cox

On Being a Jewish Feminist

by Susannah Heschel

Women in the Sources: Feminist Readings of Classical Jewish Texts

by Susannah Heschel

Transnational Political Islam (forthcoming)

by Azza Karam

Jesus and the Theology of Israel

by John T. Pawlikowsk

Stefan Zweig: Death of A Modern Man

by John Kiser

Ethics in the Shadow of the Holocaust

by John T. Pawlikowski

The Force of Tradition

by Brita Stendahl

Energy for Life

by Krister Stendahl

Final Account

by Krister Stendahl

by Krister Stendahl