Leonard Grob - Vice President

Dr. Leonard Grob serves as Vice President of Partners for Progressive Israel (Meretz USA). Grob is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Fairleigh Dickinson University, Teaneck, New Jersey. In addition to spending considerable periods of time in Israel, he has published extensively in the areas of Israeli-Palestinian dialogue and Holocaust Studies. In 2006 he co-edited, with Dr. Mahmoud Watad, a book of interviews with thirty-four Israeli and Palestinian teenagers, entitled Teen Voices From the Holy Land: Who Am I To You? published by Prometheus Books. During the last several years Dr. Grob has presented papers and has published works on the relationship between memory of the Holocaust and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In 2008 he co-edited an anthology entitled Anguished Hope: Holocaust Scholars Confront the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict. His latest co-edited book is entitled Encountering the Stranger: A Jewish-Christian-Muslim Trialogue, to be published by the University of Washington Press in 2012.  Grob also serves as Assistant Director of the Peace Consultancy, a think-tank on Israeli-Palestinian issues headed by Dr. Jerome M. Segal of the University of Maryland.