Please register for the Zoom link here! Please join us for an exclusive opportunity to hear from former Shin Bet Director Admiral Ami Ayalon in advance of the release of his upcoming memoir, FRIENDLY FIRE: How Israel Became Its Own Worst Enemy and the Hope for Its Future. Ayalon organized and was featured in the Academy Award-nominated documentary, The […]
Rabbi Lerner will deliver an illustrated introduction to Israeli ultra-Orthodoxy. How did ultra-Orthodoxy arise as a power in Israel? What are its goals? Who leads its groups? Why is ultra-Orthodoxy a threat to the Israel we know and love? In explaining ultra-Orthodoxy, Rabbi Lerner will also share why he wrote The Mossad Messiah and briefly give us […]
How the Youth of Palestine and Lebanon wrote their vision of the Future on Their Walls David Miller will discuss a project he organized several years ago training the youth of both Southern Lebanon and Palestine to do large murals on the external walls of schools and government buildings. He brought 8 people from Precita […]
Disturbing the Peace is an award-winning film about Combatants for Peace, an organization made up of former Israeli and Palestinian combatants working together to end the conflict through non-violent actions. Two members of Combatants for Peace recently visited Davis on their West Coast tour. This film gives a deeper picture of their organization and activism. Co-sponsored by J Street Davis and J Street […]
Gisha — Legal Center for Freedom of Movement is an Israeli human rights organization, which works to protect the right to freedom of movement, especially for Palestinian residents of the Gaza Strip, through individual legal assistance and principled legal and public advocacy. Tania Hary, Executive Director of Gisha, will discuss Gisha’s individual legal assistance has […]
Two former combatants, one Palestinian and one Israeli, will share their personal stories of transformation from violence to cooperation for peace. Excerpts from the award-winning film, “Disturbing The Peace,” will be screened. For over a decade, Combatants For Peace have embodied and served as a model for humanistic values of freedom, democracy, security and dignity […]
Israel Peace Alternatives presents J Street U Summer Trip to Israel, with Ethan Wallerstein, a second-year philosophy and economics student at UC Davis. Ethan attended J Street U’s “Let Our People Know” summer trip to Israel in 2019. The trip was structured to provide a nuanced understanding of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, including the Israeli occupation […]
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