Chapter of jewish voice for peace. Two of the cosponsors of evenings program. Id like to first thank and honor our events primary sponsor, rights watch. As im sure many of you may know of Nathan Thrall appearances have been canceled recently. And the fact that we are here at all this evening is due the principles and quite the courage of rw and our good friends here at temple. Please, lets show some appreciation to those who made this evening possible. Were gathering together this evening. As we all know as a horrific tragedy continues to unfold in gaza and israel. Im tempted to say that when program was first scheduled, none of us could imagined the terrible circumstances in which we now find ourselves. But im not so sure thats completely true. Palestinians, their allies and numerous human organizations, including Human Rights Watch have long been sounding the alarm that israel has been subjecting palestinians for decades to a Apartheid Regime of occupation over and over, been warned
Welcome. My name is brant rosen. Im the rabbi esthetic chicago and a member of the chicago chapter of jewish voice for peace. Two of the cosponsors of evenings program. Id like to first thank and honor our events primary sponsor, rights watch. As im sure many of you may know of Nathan Thrall appearances have been canceled recently. And the fact that we are here at all this evening is due the principles and quite the courage of rw and our good friends here at temple. Please, lets show some appreciation to those who made this evening possible. Were gathering together this evening. As we all know as a horrific tragedy continues to unfold in gaza and israel. Im tempted to say that when program was first scheduled, none of us could imagined the terrible circumstances in which we now find ourselves. But im not so sure thats completely true. Palestinians, their allies and numerous human organizations, including Human Rights Watch have long been sounding the alarm that israel has been subjecti
Yeah. So, you know, the book tells the story of abid salama. Its called a day in the life of abid salama, but its actually about more than just a day its the life of abid salama and its the life of some of the other characters in this book. And one of the themes, i mean, we see in what transpires on that day, how abid learns of the accident, he rushes to the accident site, how he goes through, passes a checkpoint, get to the accident site and tries to flag down Israeli Soldiers who refuse to give him ride up to to the bus. How he arrives at scene of the accident and all of the kids have been removed. And he asks this crowd where are the kids. And hes told that some of them went to jerusalem hospitals, some of them went to the military base just a minute up the road. Some of them went to ramallah hospital, some even went to nablus. And he himself has a green west bank id, which doesnt him to go to most of the places that were named. Certainly cant go to the israeli military. Thats a min
Welcome. My name is brant rosen. Im the rabbi esthetic chicago and a member of the chicago chapter of jewish voice for peace. Two of the cosponsors of evenings program. Id like to first thank and honor our events primary sponsor, rights watch. As im sure many of you may know of Nathan Thrall appearances have been canceled recently. And the fact that we are here at all this evening is due the principles and quite the courage of rw and our good friends here at temple. Please, lets show some appreciation to those who made this evening possible. Were gathering together this evening. As we all know as a horrific tragedy continues to unfold in gaza and israel. Im tempted to say that when program was first scheduled, none of us could imagined the terrible circumstances in which we now find ourselves. But im not so sure thats completely true. Palestinians, their allies and numerous human organizations, including Human Rights Watch have long been sounding the alarm that israel has been subjecti
The transition from perilous warfare only an hour or two from their homes and a return to civilian life for a few days and then back again to the battlefront has many challenges.