-♪ Ride on, King Jesus ♪ ♪ Teach us to be ♪ ♪ Our fellow man ♪ ♪ In him in me ♪ -Chautauqua is unique because of the tradition.

150 years, it's just a little after the Civil War, right before the end of Reconstruction, of a continued, sustained engagement with the principles of democracy and its evolution into interfaith relationships, and also the ability to sit in discomfort with those who do not believe what you believe.

-You've got to be careful in the present democratic moment when there are people that want us to forget our yesterday.

-When Chautauqua first started, it always began with a worship service that would frame it, but not just simply a worship service in the simple sectarian sense, but the heart of those values.

What does it mean to be compassionate?

What does it mean to live a life of grace?

How do you focus and build your life around assisting those who have been marginalized?

-Palestine is our Shalom!

-Palestine is our Shalom!

-Settler, settler, go back home!

-Settler, settler, go back home!

-Hamas is ISIS!

Hamas is ISIS!

-There's no escaping the tensions and conflicts that arise from being in multi-religious community and convening an interfaith conversation.

Within our Abrahamic program for Young Adults, I would say that it is a present point of reflection and conversation to look at the global landscape, to look at current conflicts, and for people to share transparently with one another about what that experience looks like for them.

-Both of you, actually, both Madison and Allison, like having spent time in Israel and Palestine, you have like, this, like really visceral experience living there.

And then given what's going on, like, how are you making sense of everything?

-Exposure to people who have a different experience from me is so insightful, especially people who are living in the Holy Land.

-It's hard because it can feel very overwhelming.

When I was in Palestine, I had made friends with students that were in Bethlehem that grew up there, and with things going on, their life has gotten harder.

-When we put out the application to search for these coordinators after October 7th, I was really nervous because I knew that the Jewish and Muslim coordinator and also the Christian coordinators, they were going to have to live with one another, and I wasn't sure how that was going to be.

-One of the things that I find that I can get involved the most in is honestly, truly interfaith work and being in spaces that are uncomfortable for me at times, but also recognizing that the people in those spaces have reasonable and valuable concerns and fears and hopes that motivate them and their choices, that I won't know or understand those unless I give each of us an opportunity to understand each other.

-When I came into this place as a Jew, I felt that the community was incredibly open-hearted and receptive and really looking to engage and understand the ways that my Jewish interpretation aligned with and also did not align with their read of tradition.

Do not underestimate or downplay the threat of white nationalist violence in this country today.

Antisemitism endangers not only Jews, but all of us and the democratic order itself, because antisemitism is fundamentally a conspiracy theory.