Tuesday, January 30, 7:00 PM EDT - online and in person at Falmouth Public Library - Hermann Room, 300 Main St., Falmouth, MA
FORUM ON GAZA: CURRENT EVENTS AND BACKGROUND
Do you wonder what is really going on in Gaza and wish for reliable information, comprehensive and unfiltered? Do you Seek an understanding as to how the situation came about: why it has become a seemingly endless and irreconcilable conflict fraught with violence? Then this educational forum is for you.
FEATURED SPEAKERS: Alice Rothchild, M.D is the author of Broken Promises, Broken Dreams; Stories of Jewish and Palestinian Trauma and Resilience and on ion and in 2017, Dr. Rothchild wrote and published Condithe Brink: Israel and Palestine on the Eve of the 2014 Gaza Invastion Critical: Life and Death in Israel/Palestine. Dr. Rothchild directed and released the award winning documentary film, “Voices Across the Divide”. She has traveled and worked extensively in the occupied Territories, Gaza and the West Bank, where Palestinians live under Israeli control. She is a retired obstetrician-gynecologist who taught at Harvard Medical School, treated patients in the Boston area and continues to teach and write about the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians and the humanitarian conditions facing Palestinians living under military occupation. She was most recently in Gaza in August of 2023.
Rabbi Brian Walt was ordained as a rabbi in 1984. He has worked as a congregational rabbi, a human-rights activist and an outspoken advocate in the American Jewish community for justice, equality and peace for all in Israel/Palestine. Born in South Africa, he was active as a student in the anti-apartheid struggle. From 1984-88, he served as the rabbi of Congregation Beth Israel. He was one of the founders of Rabbis for Human Rights – North America (currently, T’ruah), and served as its first executive director from
2003-2008. In response to “Operation Cast Lead” in 2008-09, he co-founded with Rabbi Brant Rosen Taanit Tzedek–Jewish Fast for Gaza. In 2012, Rabbi Walt led the Dorothy Cotton Institute Civil and Human Rights delegation to the West Bank. The delegation included veterans of the American civil-rights movement who met with leaders of the Palestinian nonviolent resistance movement and their Israeli allies. Drawing on his own life experience and faith, Rabbi Walt speaks and writes about the struggle against racism and apartheid in South Africa, Israel and America. He is a member of the Jewish Voice for Peace rabbinical Council and Rabbi’s for a Ceasefire.
Q&A after speakers’ presentations. Light refreshments served.
In-person and on Zoom if you pre-register at Webinar Registration - Zoom Simulcast available on the Falmouth for a Ceasefire Now FB page, send a request to join group.