Learn how to be a legal observer of ICE activity in your community and protect our neighbors at risk! Rapid Response Volunteer Training Sunday, August 10, 4-6pm Los Altos Hills CLICK HERE TO REGISTER. Space limited. Registration required. Location information will be sent after you register. The Rapid Response Network...

Santa Clara County and San Mateo County have separate Rapid Response Networks for protecting immigrant families, responding to ICE activities, and providing accompaniment and legal support during and after detention or deportation. While these two counties work together, it is helpful to know how to reach each of them to...

Members of our MVPJ Steering Committee suggest contributions to these organizations and programs that work for justice, healing and peace in the Middle East. As noted, many of these have roots in Palestine and a history of working on the ground in Gaza. CLICK HERE for a google doc with...

On 6/13/25 from Churches for Middle East Peace: Military solutions are not the answer and will only cause more death, destruction, and harm. Such escalations not only cause civilian deaths but further destabilize the entire peace and security of the region. Use this link to go to Peace Action’s website...

Multifaith Peace Picnic & Prayers Thursday, Sept 11, 5:30-7:30pm King Plaza (in front of Palo Alto City Hall) 250 Hamilton Road, Palo Alto Join this treasured annual community gathering hosted by American Muslim Voice Foundation in partnership with MVPJ. Picnic (dinner provided) and sowing seeds of friendship will be followed...

Join MVPJ at the No Kings 2 Democracy Fair and Democracy Academy! NO KINGS! events will be held across the nation – with great opportunities right here on the Peninsula – all on Saturday, October 18. NO KINGS 2 Democracy Fair and Academy 1-4pm, Palo Alto Democracy Academy Workshop, 12:45-1:45pm...

to destroy one life is to destroy the whole world, and to save one life is to save the whole world Jewish Mishnah Sanhedrin 4:5, and Muslim Qur’an 5:32 [Statement issued by MVPJ Steering Committee in April 2024] As people of faith contemplating the horrendous violence in the Middle East,...

More than 30 Palestinian and Israeli human rights and peace organizations issued this powerful call for an immediate ceasefire and entry of humanitarian aid. Help us amplify their message!  Israel must stop the attacks and allow immediate entry of aid! CLICK HERE to join Combatants for Peace’s effort for handwritten...

Members of our MVPJ Steering Committee have visited with Stanford student hunger strikers and others who gather every evening at White Plaza for Muslim prayers and to call attention to the starving people of Gaza. On May 24, 2025, MVPJ Steering Committee sent the following letter to Stanford University’s President...

We are horrified by the murder of the young Jewish couple, Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim, outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington DC on May 21. Our prayers are with their families and friends, and with our Jewish siblings across our nation. Coming from diverse faiths and spiritual traditions,...