Rabbi Dr. Ron Kronish is founding director and now senior advisor of the Interreligious Coordinating Council in Israel (ICCI) — which is now a department of Rabbis for Human Rights. He is a noted rabbi, educator, author, lecturer and speaker. This article is adapted from an essay in Coexistence and Reconciliation in Israel –Voices for Interreligious Dialogue (Paulist Press, 2015), a collection of essays by Jews, Christians and Muslims from Israel and Palestine, edited by Kronish. He blogs regularly for the Huffington Post http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ron-kronish and The Times of Israel. http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/author/ron-kronish/.