Rabbi Arthur Waskow founded (1983) and directs The Shalom Center. He had long before been a founding Fellow (1962-1977) of the Institute for Policy Studies, where he wrote The Limits of Defense, From Race Riot to Sit-in, and the original Freedom Seder, and co-authored with Marc Raskin “A Call to Resist Illegitimate Authority,” an influential outcry for resistance to the U.S. war against Vietnam. Feeling called to and by the Freedom Seder into a lifelong engagement with prophetic spirituality, he wrote Godwrestling – Round 2, Seasons of Our Joy, Torah of the Earth, The Tent of Abraham, and Dancing in God's Earthquake: The Coming Transformation of Religion, along with 20 other books.