My name is Nicholas Levy and I am an 18 year old senior, from Netanya, Israel, originally from Brazil. I joined JPB because I wanted to gain knowledge about my neighbors from different backgrounds, learn more about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict according to different narratives, and of course, because I wanted to make new friends! Over the last two years, I have attended two JPB Summer Institutes: Interfaith Citizenship (TX) and Leadership (VT). JPB provided me with numerous tools, such as storytelling, empathy, how to challenge my own narrative, and so many more it would take me pages to explain. JPB gifted me with many new friends who I wouldn't have gotten the chance to meet if it w
In recognition of our effective work, JPB recently won three prestigious grants for 2020 from the Episcopal Church, totaling $47,500! Sponsored by Province I (the Dioceses of New England), JPB successfully applied to the National Episcopal Church's Constable Fund for a $20,000 grant to fund interfaith religious education at each of its four residential youth programs in 2020. The World Mission Board of the Episcopal Diocese of Texas awarded $17,500 for JPB's peace and leadership education programs in 35 schools across Jerusalem and Israel. These programs are operated in cooperation with Palmer Memorial Church in Houston. The Episcopal parish of St. Michael and All Angels on Sanibel Island,
