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1. 1. UAHC: Seeking Peace, Pursuing Justice: About Us: Esther Lederman

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   Published on: 1/24/2008   Last Visited: 1/24/2008

   Esther LedermanProject Director
   
   Esther Lederman (elederman@uahc.org) is Project Director for SEEKING PEACE, PURSUING JUSTICE, the Reform Movement's new campaign for peace and social justice in Israel.She is responsible for overseeing the creation and production of publications, programs, speaker tours, and other events sponsored by the project.As well, Ms. Lederman helps draft policy guidelines on the Middle East for the UAHC and works in collaboration with other Reform movement affiliates and the wider Jewish community on issues relating to Israel and the Middle East.
   
   Prior to joining the UAHC, Ms. Lederman held the position of Assistant Director of the Washington Policy Center of Israel Policy Forum (IPF), a pro-peace think tank that advocates on behalf of the peace process and supports American diplomacy to advance negotiations.
   
   From 1996-98, Esther served as the National Director of Habonim Dror North America (HDNA), a Jewish-Zionist youth movement.During her tenure, Esther helped oversee the opening of Habonim Dror's seventh summer camp in New York and served as Camp Director and Educational Director for four summers with the movement.
   
   Esther was born and raised in Canada and received her B.A. from McGill University in Montreal, Canada in Political Science and Middle Eastern studies.

2. 2. www.pjalliance.org

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   Published on: 10/1/2007   Last Visited: 6/26/2008

   Esther Lederman is a fifth-year rabbinical student who recently completed an organizing course at Hebrew Union College, the Reform seminary in New York."I came to HUC inspired to work on social action.And every week I worked to get volunteers for our soup kitchen," she recalls."Were we helping to reduce the number of poor in our city?Were we helping others get back on their own two feet?The answer was no.I felt frustrated and powerless."
   
   Lederman is now interning with the IAF to learn how to address root causes, not just symptoms."Because of organizing, I'm going to be a better rabbi, who will cultivate more leaders in our community," she says.

3. 3. JTA NEWS

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   Published on: 12/13/2002   Last Visited: 12/13/2002

   Esther Lederman, project director of UAHC's "Seeking Peace, Pursuing Justice" project, which is organizing the teach-in, said the goal is to provoke "open conversation" about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in a setting that inspires respect and civility - the synagogue.
   
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   But Lederman and others insist they are not framing the debate from the left or hoping to shape a specific response.The teach-in material reflects a broad range of opinion, and reflects their mission to provoke debate.
   
   But teach-in organizers want more than talk.First, they said the teach-in aims to educate an American Jewish community dazed by shocking television images and shouting heads.
   
   Rabbi Ammiel Hirsch, executive director of ARZA/World Union - Association of Reform Zionists of America, said there is a "deep intellectual, and even greater emotional need" among Reform's 900 congregations and 1.5 million members "to receive information and deal with and study events in Israel."
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   "This is all being done out of our deep love for Israel and our deep pain as we've watched terrible things happen in Israel over the past two years," Lederman said.
   
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