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Conference Venue: Sunnyvale Presbyterian Church
       728 West Fremont Avenue | Sunnyvale, CA 94087 (map)

Alice Walker, Legendary Author, on Sabeel Conference

"What happens to the soul of the church when it remains uninformed, often by choice, of a suffering it might begin to help alleviate? That is the question that causes my endorsement, gladly, of the Sabeel Conference in Sunnyvale; I believe this compelling question also drives the hunger for justice expressed by the members of Sabeel. Many in these times are falling away from the church because it appears to lag behind them on many important issues of the Times. However, as I learned during the Civil Rights Movement in the American South, when the church is fully aroused to an injustice it can act with integrity and speed, equal to its vast resources of organization and territory. Sabeel is a special effort, a loving and pro-active one. Jesus, the Palestinian everybody knows, would have welcomed it."

Alice Walker, American Novelist and Poet

22 Rabbis and Rabbinical Students Emphatically Support Sabeel and Human Rights for Palestinians

"As rabbis and people of faith, we stand in solidarity with the work of the Sabeel Institute. Palestinian Christian liberation theologians such as Canon Naim Ateek of the Sabeel Institute challenge Jews and Christians to rethink our relationship to the Holy Land and each other on the basis of a universal standard of human rights grounded in nonviolence... Read the full statement.