Interview/Discussion with with Richard Forer, author
A Zoom Interview and Discussion with author Richard Forer and Pilgrims of Ibillin board member Brenda Mehos and new Executive Director Essrea Cherin on Rich’s latest book.
Richard will discuss his unique understanding of the hidden factors at the heart of the Israel-Palestine tragedy, especially the factors that lead people who ordinarily believe in decency and justice to support indecency and injustice. For readers who’d like to be informed about these factors beforehand, his new book, Wake Up and Reclaim Your Humanity: Essays on the Tragedy of Israel Palestine, is available at Amazon and other venues.
With its insight into the longstanding struggle between Israel and the Palestinian people, Wake Up and Reclaim Your Humanity focuses on the psycho-spiritual roots of suffering and conflict, commonly misinterpreted historical issues, and the humanity that lies at the heart of the tragedy.
The book tells the true story of a lifelong supporter of Israel who underwent a remarkable spiritual awakening in which he realized he was as much Muslim or Christian as Jew, and as much Palestinian as Israeli or American. Existential fear and confusion, the hallmarks of separate identities, were transformed into compassion and clarity and an unequivocal vision of the roots of suffering spontaneously arose.
Sponsored by: Pilgrims of Ibillin & Richard Forer
Register: https://us0web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_FnLjbSrBSPmqw9DIWHrB9g
Recognizing that endless conflict only leads to alienation from our true selves, Wake Up encourages readers to look at the documented history of Israel-Palestine and get in touch with how they view and interpret that history. It offers readers a path that leads to freedom from false beliefs, enemy images, and the illusion of identity to equal rights for all people and a just peace between Palestinians and Israelis.
The Author:
Richard Forer grew up in the 1950s and 1960s in Trenton, NJ. His identical twin brother has been a prominent member of an Orthodox Hasidic sect since the early 1970s. Another brother is a former president of one of the largest Reform Synagogues on the East Coast. Other Orthodox members of his family live in Jewish settlements in the West Bank. Forer is a past member of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). In 1996, he was certified as a practitioner of the Meir Schneider Self-Healing Method, an exceptional system of touch, kinesthetic awareness, and mental imagery developed by an Israeli. Rich has spent time in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. His first book, Breakthrough: Transforming Fear into Compassion- A New Perspective on the Israel-Palestine Conflict, was published in 2010. Wake Up and Reclaim Your Humanity: Essays on the Tragedy of Israel-Palestine was published in 2020.