PETER GEFFEN

FOUNDER AND PRESIDENT

Peter Geffen is also founder of The Abraham Joshua Heschel School in NYC, former Director of the Israel Experience Program for the CRB Foundation and one of the most respected Israel education specialists in the world. He has been a social activist since serving as a civil rights worker for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1965-66 and has been deeply involved in Arab-Jewish co-existence work since the early 1960's. Peter served as Executive Director of The Center for Jewish History from 2003-05.  He has designed and conducted international travel programs for teenagers and adults since 1969 including the Kivunim summer teachers' programs that have served over 1500 participants between 1999 and 2015. Peter was the recipient of the Covenant Award in 2012, the highest recognition given to a Jewish educator. He lives in New York City with his wife Susie Kessler and has 6 children, Rabbi Jonah Geffen and Julia Mannes; Rabbi Daniel and LuAnne Geffen, and Nessa Geffen and Micah Bookman, and 4 grandchildren, future Kivunim students: Bina, Shula, Eva and Gabriel.

EMAIL: pgeffen@kivunim.org
CELL: 917-930-3092