[Jewish] Tomorrow (Thursday): Program on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

[Steven Nathan]

I hope to see many of you at the lecture tomorrow.  In addition, there 
will be a reception prior to the lecture beginning at 4:00.  Please feel 
free to join us for this as well.

Shalom/Salaam,

Rabbi Steve
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*Executive Director of Rabbis for Human Rights-North America,
Rabbi Brian Walt to Speak at Hampshire College March 5
5:00 pm - Main Lecture Hall FPH
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/"The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Two Narratives, Two Peoples, A 
Shared Land"/

Rabbi Brian Walt, executive director and a founder of Rabbis for Human 
Rights-North America, will speak at Hampshire College on *March 5 at 5 
p.m. in Franklin Patterson Hall*. His talk is titled "The 
Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Two Narratives, Two Peoples, A Shared Land."

Rabbi Brian Walt

His lecture at Hampshire College will address questions such as: Can one 
be a supporter of the state of Israel while disagreeing with many of its 
government's policies? Can one be pro-Israeli and also pro-Palestine?

Rabbi Walt will talk about being a lover of Israel, even when he does 
not support its government's policies. He will focus on traditional 
Jewish values and teachings regarding human rights and how they can 
affect Israel's ability to work out a lasting peace with the Palestinian 
people so that both can flourish and grow. He will present a vision that 
focuses on respecting the rights and dignity of all while seeking a 
solution to the conflict that will allow all to live in peace with 
mutual respect.

Rabbi Walt is co-author of /The Seder of the Children of Abraham/, a 
haggadah dedicated to Israeli-Palestinian reconciliation. He works to 
promote open discussion in the Jewish community of ethical issues 
related to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Rabbis for Human Rights-North American (RHR-NA) is a group of more than 
1,000 rabbis, including presidents and deans of major American 
rabbinical schools, leaders of various rabbinical associations, and many 
of the rabbis in the Pioneer Valley.

Prior to the founding of RHR-NA, Walt served as a congregational rabbi 
for 17 years. He was the founding rabbi of Congregation Mishkan Shalom 
in Philadelphia, a synagogue dedicated to the integration of spiritual 
life and social justice. Born in Cape Town, South Africa, he was an 
activist in the struggle against apartheid. He is a board member of the 
National Religious Campaign Against Torture.

The lecture is free and open to the public. It is funded by a grant from 
the Harold Grinspoon Foundation and sponsored through Hampshire 
College's Spiritual Life Office.


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Steven P. Nathan

Campus Rabbi

Interim LGBTQ Advisor

Hampshire College 
                                                           

Office of Spiritual Life -- Box SA

Amherst, MA 01002

Phone: (413) 559-5282

Fax: (413) 559-5663

snathan at hampshire.edu <mailto:snathan at hampshire.edu>


 

/"The more deeply immersed I became in the thinking of the prophets, the 
more powerfully it became clear to me what the lives of the prophets 
sought to convey: that morally speaking there is no limit to the concern 
one must feel for the suffering of human beings. It also became clear to 
me that in regard to cruelties committed in the name of a free society, 
some are guilty, all are responsible."/

/-Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel/


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