WHAT JERUSALEM MEANS TO US

<p><strong style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)><em>WHAT JERUSALEM MEANS TO US</em></strong><em style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>: </em><strong style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)><em>JEWISH PERSPECTIVES AND REFLECTIONS</em></strong></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)> </span></p><p class=ql-align-justify>Jerusalem is a distinctive city for Judaism Christianity and Islam and their adherents. It is equally special for Jews and Arabs Israelis and Palestinians having been their home for decades if not centuries and millennia.</p><p class=ql-align-justify><br></p><p class=ql-align-justify><em>What Jerusalem Means to Us: Jewish Perspectives and Reflections</em> addresses the intimate and unique connections among Jews Judaism and Jerusalem along a variety of dimensions - religious spiritual historical cultural political psychological and social. These are manifested through the perspectives and reflections of sixteen Jewish authors representing different backgrounds. The resultant essays present a rich array of personal and professional transformations extraordinary love and hope for Jerusalem as well as an honest appraisal of some of the challenges of daily living. </p><p class=ql-align-justify><em>What Jerusalem Means to Us: Jewish Perspectives and Reflections</em><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)> is published by the Jerusalem Peace Institute which </span>highlights Jerusalem as humanity's shared gift governed by two peoples and cherished by three faiths and its centrality for a just peace<span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>. It complements well the successful </span><em>What Jerusalem Means to Us: Christian Perspectives and Reflections</em><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)> (2018) and </span><em style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>What Jerusalem Means to Us: Muslim Perspectives and Reflections</em><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)> (2020) which were published by HCEF.</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><br></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Edited by:</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Dr. Saliba Sarsar</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Co-Founder/President The Jerusalem Peace Institute</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Professor of Political Science Monmouth University</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)> and</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)> Dr. Carole Monica C. Burnett</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)> Co-Chair HCEF Research & Publication Committee and</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)> Editor of the Church and Fathers of the Church Mediaeval Continuation</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)> The Catholic University of America Press</span></p><p><br></p>