VFP Chapter 21 Endorsement

JEWS UNITING TO END THE WAR AND HEAL AMERICA: ORGANIZING FOR ACTION
SUNDAY NOV. 23, 9:30AM-5PM
Central Synagogue, 123 East 55th Street, between Park & Lexington Avenues, NYC

Join hundreds of domestic and international policy, human and civil rights, peace and Jewish community experts and activists from across the nation for a daylong call to conscience and strategy session focused moving the incoming Presidential Administration---whichever it will be---to end the war in Iraq, attend to pressing domestic issues and shift to a saner foreign policy.

Speakers and workshop panelists include:

Rabbi Rebecca Alpert, Temple University; Diane Balser, Brit Tzedek V’Shalom; Jan Barry, Veterans for Peace; Jeremy Ben-Ami, J Street; Lawrence Bush, Jewish Currents; Leslie Cagan,
United for Peace and Justice; Rabbi Nina Beth Cardin, Baltimore Jewish Environmental Network; Jeff Cohen, Park Center for Independent Media; Penny Coleman, author; Adrienne Cooper, Workmen's Circle/Arbeter Ring; Je!rey Dekro, founder The Shefa Fund; Liza Featherstone, journalist and contributing editor to The Nation; Rabbi Marla Feldman, Commission on Social Action of Reform Judaism; Gary Ferdman, Common Cause; Emmaia Gelman, Center for Working Families; J.J. Goldberg, The Forward; Amy Goodman, Democracy Now; Cantor Jonathan Gordon; William Hartung, New America Foundation;!Honorable Elizabeth Holtzman, former Congresswoman, author and attorney; Mark Johnson, Fellowship of Reconciliation/Olive Branch Interfaith Partners for Peace; Rokhl Kafrissen, Jewish Currents; Rabbi Rachel Kahn-Troster, Rabbis for Human Rights-North America; Esther Kaplan, The Nation Institute; Robert Kaplan, Workmen’s Circle/Arbeter Ring; Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz, scholar and poet; Rabbi Peter Knobel, Central Conference of American Rabbis; Charles Komano!, Carbon Tax Center; Steve Kretzmann, Oil Change International; Brad Lander, Pratt Center for Community"Development; Rabbi Ellen Lippmann, Kolot Chayeinu/Voices of Our Lives; Myriam Miedzian, author; Sammie Moshenberg, National Council of Jewish Women; Congressman Jerrold Nadler, (D-NY); Sue Niederer, Goldstar Families for Peace; Michael Ratner, Center for Constitutional Rights; Lilly Rivlin, Meretz USA; Rabbi Or Rose, Hebrew College; MJ Rosenberg, Israel Policy Forum; April Rosenblum, author; Rabbi David Saperstein, Religious Action Center"; Basya Schecter and “Pharaoh's Daughter”; Marty Schwartz, Workmen's Circle/
Arbeter Ring; Rabbi David Shneyer, Am Kolel; Dan Sieradski, Jewish Telegraphic Agency;
Dara Silverman, Jews for Racial & Economic Justice; Greg Speeter, National Priorities Project;
Ann"Toback, Workmen’s Circle/Arbeter Ring; Rabbi Arthur Waskow, The Shalom Center;
Rabbi Simkha Weintraub, Rabbis for Human Rights-North America.

Panel discussions and strategy workshops on:

-Building a Jewish Anti-War Activist Network
-Confronting the War in the Jewish Community: A Historic Moment of Opportunity
-Domestic Economic Consequences of the War and Peace
-Healing Veterans, Their Families and the Families of the War Dead
-Impacts of the Iraq War on Human Rights and Civil Liberties in the U.S.
-Impacts of the Iraq War on Peace and the Broader Middle East
-Oil, War and Climate Crisis
-Takhlis: Jewish Values, Texts and Organizing with Rabbis and Synagogues
-The Media and Changing Jewish Public Opinion

For further information:
jewsunitingtoendthewar@circle.org / 212-889-6800 ext. 274
Or register online at: www.circle.org/jewsuniting