Chicago Peace Now

presents

Ori Nir

Our Man in Ramallah
Personal Reflections from Veteran Ha’aretz journalist

June 7th, 2007
8:00 P.M.

Beth Emet The Free Synagogue

1224 Dempster
Evanston, Illinois 60202
(Dempster and Ridge)

Ori Nir recently joined Americans for Peace Now following a 24-year career in journalism, which was mainly focused on the Arab-Israeli conflict.

Nir covered Palestinian affairs for Ha’aretz Daily, Israel’s leading newspaper (1986- 1990; 1994-1996) during the first years of the Palestinian uprising (intifada) and through the troubled implementation of the first phases of the Oslo Accords. Later, he covered Israel’s Arab minority for Ha’aretz, (2000 to July 2002).

In addition to his reporting on the ground, Nir also covered the diplomatic efforts to advance Arab-Israeli peace. As the Washington correspondent of Ha’aretz (1990-1994) and of the Forward, America’s largest and most influential independent national Jewish weekly newspaper, he focused on America’s Mideast policy.

Nir was also Ha’aretz’s West Coast Correspondent (1996-2000) reporting from San Francisco. He earned a Master’s degree in journalism from the University of California, Berkeley, where he also taught journalism (1997-2000). His Bachelor’s degree in Middle Eastern history and Arabic literature is from Jerusalem’s Hebrew University. He is fluent in Hebrew and Arabic.

Nir is a coveted media personality. He has been a frequent contributor on national television news shows such as PBS’s Newshour and ABC’s Nightline, and was interviewed by CNN, ABC, and NBC. He is a frequent radio interviewee and frequently publishes opinion articles and analyses in major American newspapers. His articles have appeared in the New York Times, the Los Angles Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, Newsday, and the Baltimore Sun, among others.

Chicago Peace Now and Americans for Peace Now will be bringing prominent Palestinians and Israelis to Chicago on a regular basis this year.

Please check this space for updates.

About Ophir Pines-Paz:

Until October, Pines-Paz (45) was Minister for Science, Technology, Culture and Sport in Olmert's cabinet. In the past, he served as Israel's Interior Minister, was Chairman of the Labor Party's Knesset faction and chaired the Knesset's Judiciary Committee. He was elected three times as Outstanding Legislator of Israel's Knesset. On October 30, following Prime Minister Olmert's decision to include MK Lieberman in the cabinet, Pines-Paz announced his resignation. Lieberman advocates stripping Israeli Arab citizens of their Israeli citizenship and moving their communities to the future Palestinian entity in the West Bank. In his letter to Olmert, Pines-Paz wrote: "I cannot accept a situation where a minister who preaches racism sits in the cabinet." Upon his resignation, Pines-Paz announced that he will be running for the leadership of the Labor Party next year. Winning the race would position him to become Labor's next candidate for Prime Minister.

In his own words (Ha'aretz interview, 12 November, 2006):

• [Lieberman's] approach is ruinous. Brutal. Extremist. … It is liable to create regional crises."
• We are in the midst of the most serious leadership crisis in Israel's history. Israeli democracy is in danger…The whole of politics has become empty. There are no leaders, no ideas, no path. And this is at a time when Israel needs leaders and a path more than ever before."
• The problem with Labor is that it is not ready to pay the price of its convictions. In the end, it is willing to pay almost any price to be part of the government … If the opportunism continues, the Labor Party will cease to exist. It will simply not be."
• Kadima is the ultimate expression of the nullity of Israeli politics. … It's worthless. It's all Israbluff."
• The war [in Lebanon] was filled with mistakes, errors and blunders. I had a few arguments with the prime minister during the war. I tried to warn him in real time about what was going to happen."
• Our great advantage was achieved after three days of fighting. We could have had the whole of [UN] Resolution 1701 after three days."
• The decision to launch a massive ground operation in the last 48 hours [of the war]…had no true justification. Not political, security or deterrence for the future. It was a decision that was doomed to failure…It was impossible to see any scenario in which it could have succeeded…It is impossible to defend the decision. It came with a terrible price."
• We had a generation of founders and a generation of successors and now we have a generation of disbanders. If we do not want these people to disband everything, we have to do something."

Chicago Peace Now (CPN), the Chicago-area affiliate of Americans for Peace Now (www.peacenow.org) is the premier Jewish, Zionist organization working to enhance Israel's security through peace. Founded in 1981 to support the activities of Shalom Achshav (Peace Now), Israel's largest grassroots movement, APN believes that strong U.S. leadership is the best hope for reducing Israeli-Palestinian violence and bringing about a political process that can eventually pave the way for security and peace for Israelis and Palestinians.

Ameinu (www.ameinu.net) works for peace, social justice and pluralism in Israel and America through a variety of programs and advocacy activities. The organization reinforces Jewish continuity through support for Habonim Dror, the Labor Zionist youth movement and the Union for Progressive Zionists campus organization.

For Comments to JUF's Jewish Community Relations Council by MK Pines-Paz, click here.

Chicago Peace Now President
Gidon D. Remba

will speak on

Unilateralism: A New Way to Palestinian-Israeli Peace?
in a program on Shalom v'Shalva
at the Erev Shabbat Tisch for Peace

Jewish Reconstructionist Congregation
303 Dodge Avenue, Evanston, IL
June 2, 2006
6:00 p.m. - 9:00 pm

JRC invites the community to welcome the Shabbat with an evening devoted to peace. Music, poetry and commentary by the JRC Adult and Junior Choirs; Heavy Shtetl (JRC’s very own Klezmer house band); and JRC members and special guests.

The evening will include a dairy/vegetarian potluck dinner. RSVP to the JRC Office, (847) 328-7678, by May 26

Unilateralism: A New Way to Palestinian-Israeli Peace?
The electoral victories of the new Kadima centrist party in Israel and of Hamas in the Palestinian Authority mean that the prospects for real Palestinian-Israeli peace negotiations are virtually nonexistent. Peace talks have been superseded by a new approach: unilateralism. Unilateral steps—like Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's plan to “converge” Israeli settlements in the West Bank onto the Israeli side of the separation barrier, if pursued wisely, and Hamas’ unilateral cease-fire and focus on building a more transparent and well-ordered Palestinian regime, if followed consistently—might just succeed in moving Palestinians and Israelis closer to peace and a two-state solution. Smart unilateralism may bring progress towards peace; dumb unilateralism may be a formula for renewed conflict.

Gidon D. Remba is a political analyst, commentator and writer on the ethics and politics of the Arab-Israel conflict, and President of Chicago Peace Now, the local affiliate of Americans for Peace Now, which supports Israel's largest peace group, Shalom Achshav. He served as Senior Foreign Press Editor and Translator in the Israel Prime Minister's Office from 1977-1978 during the Egyptian-Israeli Camp David peace process. His essays have appeared in the Chicago Tribune, the New York Times, the Nation, the Jerusalem Report, Tikkun, Chicago Jewish News, The Jewish Journal of Los Angeles, JUF News, and the Pittsburgh Chronicle, where he is a columnist on Israel nationally syndicated through the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. Mr. Remba, who is currently co-editing an anthology titled From Gaza to Jerusalem: A New Road to Middle East Peace?, has appeared as a guest in various media discussing Arab-Israeli peacemaking, including The Milt Rosenberg Show/WGN Radio, WLS Radio, Chicago Public Radio programs All Things Considered and Worldview, and on WBBM TV. He has lectured widely on Israel and the Middle East at universities around the country, and in synagogues and churches in the Chicago area.

Chicago Peace Now President
Gidon D. Remba

will speak on

Bombs & Ballots: Israel's New Center and the Rise of Hamas

Congregation Or Shalom
21 Hawthorn Parkway
Vernon Hills, IL


April 30, 2006
7:00 P.M.

Gidon D. Remba is a political analyst, commentator and writer on the ethics and politics of the Arab-Israel conflict, and President of Chicago Peace Now, the local affiliate of Americans for Peace Now, which supports Israel's largest peace group, Shalom Achshav. He served as Senior Foreign Press Editor and Translator in the Israel Prime Minister's Office from 1977-1978 during the Egyptian-Israeli Camp David peace process. His essays have appeared in the Chicago Tribune, the New York Times, the Nation, the Jerusalem Report, Tikkun and other periodicals. Mr. Remba has appeared as a guest in various media discussing Arab-Israeli peacemaking, including The Milt Rosenberg Show/WGN Radio, WLS Radio, Chicago Public Radio programs All Things Considered and Worldview, and on WBBM TV. He has lectured widely on Israel and the Middle East at universities around the country, and in synagogues and churches in the Chicago area.

Announcing Columbia College Hillel’s 3rd Annual Israeli Film Festival

Screening Land of the Settlers: A Journey Log, Episode 1, directed by Chaim Yavin
Followed by a Panel Discussion with
Rabbi Michael Azose, of the Sephardic Congregation in Evanston, and
Samuel Fleischacker, Vice President and Co-Founder of Chicago Peace Now,
about the Israeli settlements in the West Bank

Wednesday, April 5, 2006
6:30 pm Appetizers, 7:00 pm Program

Film Row Cinema at Columbia College Chicago
1104 S. Wabash, 8th Floor
Chicago, Illinois 60605
*All events are free and open to the public*

Chicago Peace Now

presents

An evening with Chaim Yavin and a screening of
"Land of the Settlers A Journey Log"


The documentary will be screened in two parts, one episode per evening, each accompanied by opening remarks and Q&A with director and star Chaim Yavin

Episode 1: Did You See A Green Line?
Wednesday, October 19, 2005
7:30 P.M.
Temple Sholom
3480 N. Lake Shore Drive
Chicago, IL

Episode 2: The Market Square is Empty
Thursday, October 20, 2005
7:30 P.M.
Beth Emet The Free Synagogue
1224 Dempster Street
Evanston, IL

Chaim Yavin is the founder of Israeli television, the man who for 30 years has been the "face of Israel's television news," winner of the coveted Israel Prize.

“The breath becomes short, the heart is choked with anger. This is the only human response to ‘The Land of the Settlers.’ (Yediot Aharonot)

...Yavin…brings to the screen a boiling document from which it is hard to avert one’s gaze…The Land of the Settlers will astound you.” (Yediot Aharonot)

“A documentary about Israel's settlements in the West Bank that is pessimistic, angry and intensely personal.” (New York Times)

CPN President Gidon D. Remba
to speak at a program on
The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict:
A Spectrum of Jewish and Israeli Points of View
with

• Andy David, Deputy Consul General of Israel for the Midwest
• Rabbi Yehiel Poupko, Judaic Scholar, Jewish Federation of Chicago
• Rabbi Steven Bob, spiritual leader of Congregation Etz Chaim of Dupage County
• Steve Dishler, of the Jewish Community Relations Council of Chicago
• Chaya Gil, Vice President, American Jewish Committee-Chicago

Sunday, September 25, 2005
3:00 pm - 6:00 pm

First Presbyterian Church
715 North Carlton
Wheaton, IL

Israel On My Mind: Jewish Perspectives, Ancient and Contemporary

It is the purpose of this program to share with the membership of the First Presbyterian Church in Wheaton, IL a variety of the Jewish community’s perspectives on Israel. Christians rightfully ask, what is the relationship between the ancient biblical state and the contemporary State of Israel? This program is devoted to presenting Jewish perspectives that go to the heart of Jewish self-understanding. What is the relationship between faith and nationhood? Between Judaism and Jewish peoplehood? Between the ancient biblical narrative and the contemporary reality of Israel? How do different Jewish political and religious points of view understand the return of the Jewish people to sovereignty in the ancient homeland? What distinguishes between criticism of Israel and bias against Israel? What are the variety of points of view on the current political dilemmas in the Middle East within the Jewish community?

CPN President Gidon D. Remba

speaks on

ISRAELI DISENGAGEMENT AFTER ARAFAT:
Can It Lead To A Just Peace?

Wednesday, May 25, 2005
7:30 pm
Veterans Room
Oak Park Public Library
834 W. Lake Street
Oak Park, IL

Click here for flyer

Gidon D. Remba is a political analyst, commentator and writer on the ethics and politics of the Arab-Israel conflict, and President of Chicago Peace Now, the local affiliate of Americans for Peace Now, which supports Israel's largest peace group, Shalom Achshav. His essays have appeared in the Chicago Tribune, the New York Times, the Nation, the Jerusalem Report, Tikkun: A Bi-Monthly Critique of Jewish Politics, Culture and Society, and other periodicals. He has appeared as a guest discussing peacemaking and the Middle East on the National Public Radio programs "All Things Considered" and "Worldview". Mr. Remba served as Senior Foreign Press Editor and Translator in the Israel Prime Minister's Office from 1977-1978, during the Egyptian-Israeli Camp David peace process. He has lectured widely on Israel and the Middle East at universities around the country, and in synagogues and churches in the Chicago area.

The Jewish Community Relations Council of the
Jewish Federation of Northwest Indiana

is pleased to present:

Gidon D. Remba
President of Chicago Peace Now
Political Analyst & Author
Former Senior Foreign Press Editor and Translator for the Israel Prime Minister’s Office during the Egyptian-Israeli Camp David Peace Process

Speaking on:

Israeli Disengagement After Arafat:
Can it lead to a secure peace?

Sunday, May 15, 2005
7:00 p.m.
Jewish Federation Community Building
585 Progress Ave.
Munster, Indiana 46321

Gidon D. Remba
Gidon (Doni) Remba’s essays on the ethics and politics of the Arab-Israel conflict have appeared in the Chicago Tribune, the New York Times, the Jerusalem Report, and other periodicals. He is co-editor and contributor to “From Baghdad to Jerusalem: A New Road to Middle East Peace”.

Chicago Peace Now is the local affiliate of Americans for Peace Now, which supports Israel’s largest peace group, Shalom Achshav.

Chicago Peace Now

presents

"Israel and the New Anti-Semitism: A Debate"

featuring

Brian Klug, Samuel Fleischacker, Rachel Havrelock and Gidon D. Remba

moderated by Rabbi Andrea London

Speakers will address such questions as:

• Is the Palestinian-Israeli conflict causing an upsurge of anti-Semitism in the Arab and Muslim worlds and in Europe?
• Is anti-Semitism a cause of the Arab-Israeli conflict?
• Is anti-Zionism a form of anti-Semitism?
• Is criticism of Israel ever anti-Semitic?
• Is there a new anti-Semitism?

To read the Remba-Klug exchange "Anti-Semitism: New or Old?" please click here

Thursday, December 16, 2004
7:30 pm

Beth Emet, The Free Synagogue
1224 Dempster Street (at Ridge)
Evanston, IL

For parking or synagogue information, please call Beth Emet at
847-869-4230. For more information about the program, please
call 202-728-1893.

Click here for flyer..

Brian Klug, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Saint Xavier University, Chicago and Senior Research Fellow, St. Benet's Hall, Oxford. He is US Consulting Editor of Patterns of Prejudice, published by the Institute for Jewish Policy Research, London, and author of "The Myth of the New Anti-Semitism," The Nation and "A Time to Speak Out", Jewish Quarterly.

Samuel Fleischacker, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Illinois, Chicago, and Co-Founder/Vice-President of Chicago Peace Now. He is the author of The Ethics of Culture; A Short History of Distributive Justice; “The Way to Calamity Again,” Jerusalem Report, and “What Matters About Mahathir.”

Rachel Havrelock, Assistant Professor, Jewish Studies & Classics and Mediterranean Studies at the University of Illinois, Chicago. She is also a playwrightand has written "From Tel Aviv to Ramallah," and co-author of Women on the Biblical Road: Ruth, Naomi and the Female Journey.

Gidon D. Remba, President/Co-Founder of Chicago Peace Now and former Senior Editor and Foreign Press Translator in the Israel Prime Minister's Office, Jerusalem. He is the author of “Anti-Semitism: New or Old?—An Exchange,” The Nation; “Jewish Ethics and the Palestinian-Israeli Problem," Tikkun; “The Canard of Democratic Peace,” Jerusalem Report; “What is Zionism?", and co-editor of From Baghdad to Jerusalem: A New Road to Middle East Peace?

Speakers’ views do not necessarily represent those of Americans for Peace Now.

Chicago Peace Now

sponsored a group night to see the Chicago premiere of

"From Tel Aviv to Ramallah: A Beatbox Journey"
a boundary-breaking “hip-hop travelogue of peace”
starring “human beatbox” Yuri Lane

8:00 p.m. December 4, 2004.

Viaduct Theater
3111 N. Western Ave
Chicago, IL

Starring: Yuri Lane
Live Visual Projection by Sharif Ezzat
Written and Directed by Rachel Havrelock

Taking audiences beyond the sterile headlines and detached news reports, “From Tel Aviv to Ramallah” presents a vibrant and complex portrait of everyday life in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The first narrative drama performed in beatbox, “From Tel Aviv to Ramallah” revolves around a day in the life of Amir, a Tel Aviv dj and delivery boy, and Khalid, a Ramallah internet café owner whose parallel lives are separated by a barrier at center stage. Over the course of the day, the young Israeli and Palestinian strive to realize their visions of fame and fortune, yet encounter the distinct ways in which political conflict negates youthful dreams. Lane portrays Khalid, Amir, and their respective Westernized friends, extremist friends, mothers and cities with the precision of a seasoned solo performer and the beats of a hip-hop superstar.

“Lane's colorful depiction is so real, his characters so well developed, that you can't help but be moved. His recreation of the cities' bustling marketplaces and throbbing discos is so vivid that you can almost smell the smoke wafting from the hookah pipes and feel the moist heat emanating from the dance floor.”
     --San Francisco Examiner

“From Tel Aviv to Ramallah is a must-see for those interested in finding utopian spaces for peaceful coexistence in contemporary hip-hop culture.”
     --San Francisco Bay Guardian

“Lane is not only an accomplished mimic, he’s also an acrobat with sound. All the instrumental and percussive music in ‘Beatbox Journey’ is created on Lane’s lips, the music supplying the evocative connective thread between his main characters.”
     --The Washington Post

Chicago Peace Now Co-Sponsors the

Greater Chicago Jewish Folk Arts Festival

Sunday, June 13, 2004
11 am to 6 pm.

St. Paul Woods, Cook County Forest Preserves
located at Dempster St. and Lehigh
Morton Grove, IL

Visit our table at the organization fair.

To view their website, click here.

Chicago Peace Now,
           Brit Tzedek v'Shalom, and
                    Labor Zionist Alliance announce:

Dr. Menachem Klein

speaking on
Disengagement or Dialogue: Which Way to Security and Peace for Israel?

Wednesday, May 5, 2004
8:00 PM

Beth Emet The Free Synagogue
1224 Dempster Street (at Ridge)
Evanston, IL


Additional parking available at the Unitarian Church of Evanston, 1330 Ridge (1 block north of Dempster); lot entrance on Greenwood.


[CLICK HERE to see flyer]

Dr. Menachem Klein is a Geneva Accord Negotiator. He was an advisor on Jerusalem Affairs and Israel-PLO Final Status Talks to the Prime Minister and the Foreign Minister of Israel (1999-2001). He is a Fellow on Counter-Terrorism at the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies, Tel Aviv University, a Senior Lecturer in Political Science, Bar-Ilan University, and a Senior Research Fellow, Jerusalem Institute of Israel Studies.

For more information on the event, please call 202/728-1893 or 773/583-5747.

Chicago Peace Now and Chicago Sinai Congregation present

Yuli Tamir

speaking on
Securing Israel's Future as a Democratic Jewish State

Thursday, January 22, 2004
8:00 p.m.

Chicago Sinai Congregation
15 West Delaware
Chicago, IL

Yuli Tamir is a Labor Knesset Member, former Cabinet Minister in the Barak Government and Co-Founder of Shalom Achshav/Peace Now.

One of the principal negotiators of the Geneva Initiative, Knesset Member Tamir will speak about Israel's "separation barrier," her alternative "Gold Line" proposal and the Geneva ideas, and the demographic, political, security and economic implications of each for Israel's future.


Chicago Sinai Congregation validates parking for a reduced rate for the Potash Self-Park Garage. From the Temple, continue east on Delaware to the Stop Light, which is at Wabash Avenue. Turn right onto Wabash (going south); go one block to Chestnut. Turn right (west) on to Chestnut, and enter the Potash Self-Park garage which is on your right at the west end of the block (just east of State Street).

For more information, please contact Chicago Sinai Congregation at 312-867-7000 or Americans for Peace Now at 202-728-1893, or visit www.chicagosinai.org.

Knesset Member Tamir will also speak on social and economic rights in Israel and the Middle East at the University of Chicago Law School conference on
Constitutionalism in the Middle East: Israeli and Palestinian Perspectives
Jan. 23-25, where Palestinian moderate Sari Nusseibeh will deliver the keynote address on
When Two Rights Conflict: The Right of Return and the Right to Freedom
along with a host of Israeli, Palestinian and other legal and political scholars and jurists from around the world.
For more information, visit http://ccc.uchicago.edu/events/index.html
Chicago Peace Now does not endorse the diverse views of the many speakers at this conference, which is not a Chicago Peace Now event.

Chicago Palestinian and Jewish Leaders Unite to Support Geneva Initiative

December 3, 2003

Chicago Peace Now

is proud to present a special benefit performance of

The Arab-Israeli Comedy Hour

with Roni Geva and Hassan Arawas
Directed by Aaron Freeman

Thursday, October 30, 2003

Beth Emet The Free Synagogue
1224 Dempster Street (at Ridge)
Evanston, IL

8:00 PM

Tickets are $25 for general admission, $50 for priority seating.
To purchase tickets, please call 202-728-1893, or visit www.peacenow.org    Please indicate in the comments field that you are purchasing tickets for the Arab-Israeli Comedy Hour, and the type and number of tickets requested (general admission or priority seating).

View flier here.  Get order form here [Word doc].

Order now while tickets last!

Additional parking available at the Unitarian Church of Evanston, 1330 Ridge (1 block north of Dempster); lot entrance on Greenwood.

Don't miss this one-time Chicago-area performance of the show which has won rave reviews.

Aaron Freeman will kick off the evening with an opening act of trenchant political satire and moderate a post-Comedy Hour audience Q&A session with Roni and Hassan
Now on national tour, the Arab-Israeli Comedy Hour uses humor to offer hope for Arab-Israeli peace. Proceeds will go to benefit Americans for Peace Now and Shalom Achshav in Israel.



To learn more about "The Arab-Israeli Comedy Hour," see http://www.arabisraelicomedyhour.com. For the Chicago Jewish News cover story about the show see http://www.chicagojewishnews.org/archives_articles.jsp?id=99385.

Chicago Peace Now disagrees with the few audience members who have objected to the show claiming that it is not sufficiently pro-Israel. The show has received widespread acclaim in the Jewish community and uses humor to offer hope for Arab-Israeli peace.

Chicago Peace Now
and
Chicago Sinai Congregation
are proud to present an evening with

Yuli Tamir

Speaking on
Israelis and Palestinians: Hope Without Illusions

Thursday, October 9, 2003
8:00 PM

Chicago Sinai Congregation
15 West Delaware
Chicago, IL

and

Sukkot Services
Shabbat, October 11, 2003
9:30 AM

Beth Emet The Free Synagogue
1224 Dempster Street (at Ridge)
Evanston, IL

Yuli Tamir is a Labor Knesset Member, former Cabinet Minister in the Barak Government and Co-Founder of Shalom Achshav/Peace Now.






Chicago Sinai Congregation validates parking for a reduced rate for the Potash Self-Park Garage. From the Temple, continue east on Delaware to the Stop Light, which is at Wabash Avenue. Turn right onto Wabash (going south); go one block to Chestnut. Turn right (west) on to Chestnut, and enter the Potash Self-Park garage which is on your right at the west end of the block (just east of State Street).

For more information, please contact Chicago Sinai Congregation at 312-867-7000 or Americans for Peace Now at 202-728-1893.




Additional parking for Beth Emet is available at the Unitarian Church of Evanston, 1330 Ridge (1 block north of Dempster); lot entrance on Greenwood.

Chicago Peace Now is an official co-sponsor of

Yossi Alpher is

Samuel Fleischacker is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Illinois, Chicago, and Co-Founder of Chicago Peace Now.

Arthur Elstein is a Professor of Medical Education at the University of Illinois, Chicago.

Gidon D. Remba is president of Chicago Peace Now and a political analyst, commentator and writer on the ethics and politics of the Arab-Israel conflict.

Richard Baehr is an AIPAC National Board Member and a political analyst on Israel and the Middle East.

Samuel Fleischacker spoke on "Religion and Violence in the Middle East", sponsored by the Center for the Advanced Study of Christianity & Culture

Loyola University
Chicago, IL

The Jewish Community Relations Council of Chicago sponsored a debate on "The Zionist Dream: Visions of a Secure Israel at the 'End of Conflict", with Brad Jacobs and Gidon D. Remba

Chicago Jewish Federation
1 South Franklin St.
Chicago, IL

For over twenty years, Americans for Peace Now has worked through programs in the United States and support of the Israeli Peace Now movement (Shalom Achshav) to help Israel achieve a comprehensive political settlement of the Arab-Israeli conflict consistent with Israel’s long-term security needs and its Jewish and democratic values.

Please join us at this special Northwest Indiana program and take advantage of the opportunity to hear one of Israel’s leading peace activists discuss how Peace Now is working to achieve its goals in Israel. We will also talk about how we in Northwest Indiana can work to promote dialogue in our community and contribute to the effort to bring about a just peace in the Middle East.

For more information about the Chicago/Northwest Indiana branch of Peace Now, please email us at: nwiapn@yahoo.com or call 219-938-3885.

This presentation is co-sponsored by the Loyola University Peace Studies Program and Hillel.

Gidon Doni Remba is president of Chicago Peace Now and a political analyst, commentator and writer on the ethics and politics of the Arab-Israel conflict.

For more information, call (773) 508-8996.

Featuring: Lincolnwood Chamber Orchestra, Philip Simmons, Conductor, Racheli Galay, Cello, Tamuz Shirn, Vocalist.
A short film will be screened prior to the concert. Sponsored by: Consulate General of Israel to the Midwest; Jewish Community Relations Council of the Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago. Co Sponsors, Chicago Peace Now, Exist, Hillel at Northwestern University, BANK LEUMI USA, and AZM. In Cooperation with: American Jewish Congress Midwest Region, American Red Magen David for Israel, Anti Defamation League, Greater, Chicago/Upper Midwest Region, Chicago Board of Rabbis, Chicago Yisraelim, Community Foundation for Jewish Education, Hadassah Chicago Chapter, Hillels of Illinois, Labor Zionist Alliance, Magen David Adom- USA Region, New Israel Fund, Naíamat USA, USD-Hagshama/World Zionist Organization, Young Leadership Division-JUF, Zionist Organization of Chicago.
For more information contact Amaila at 312-297-4808