About Us

Walter Ruby is a lifelong activist in Muslim-Jewish relations. In 2008, he became Muslim-Jewish program director at the Foundation for Ethnic Understanding, leading him to organize hundreds of “twinning events,” which brought together tens of thousands of Jews and Muslims in more than thirty countries on five continents. This included members of mosques and synagogues and Muslim and Jewish organizations. 

Walter has worked as a journalist for more than forty years, mainly for American Jewish and Israeli publications, including the Jerusalem Post, London Jewish Chronicle, Long Island Jewish World, Forward, Maariv, and New York Jewish Week. In addition, he has published articles and op-ed pieces in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, New York Daily News, Los Angeles Times, Christian Science Monitor, Dallas Morning News, and many other venues. 

Walter is also the co-author of two books: Live Another Day: How I Survived the Holocaust and Realized the American Dream with Dan Ruby, published by Ruby Brothers Media in 2020 and We Refuse To Be Enemies: How Muslims and Jews Can Make Peace, One Friendship At A Time with Muslim-American author Sabeeha Rehman, published in 2021 by Arcade Publishers. He presently serves as executive director of Jews, Muslims and Allies Acting Together (JAMAAT), a Washington area grassroots interfaith group, and lives in Washington, DC.