Jews Uniting To End The War & Heal America: Organizing for Action November 23, 2008

Jews Uniting To End The War & Heal America: Organizing for Action
A Daylong Call to Conscience for the American Jewish Community
All Ages
The event website: http://www.circle.org/jewsuniting/
Registration form: http://www.circle.org/jewsuniting/reg_form.pdf

Sponsored by Workmen's Circle/Arbeter Ring: http://www.circle.org
Shalom Center: http://www.shalomctr.org/
Jewish Currents Magazine: http://www.jewishcurrents.org

Don't miss this historic gathering!
Join prominent policy experts and peace movement organizers, Jewish activists and community leaders from across the country to strategize and organize in the early days of the new Presidential Administration to end the war and focus on urgent domestic issues including the economy, human rights, civil liberties, sustainable energy, the climate crisis, veterans and their families and more.

List in formation; confirmations as of 7/24/08): call for details:
Rabbi Rebecca Alpert
Temple University

Jeremy Ben-Ami
J Street

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 “Flashback:
Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome, Suicide and the Costs of War”

Rabbi Marla Feldman
Reform Commission on Social Action

Amy Goodman
Democracy Now

Liz Holtzman
former Congresswoman, author and attorney

Mark Johnson
Fellowship of Reconciliation/Olive Branch Interfaith Partners for Peace

Charles Komanoff
Carbon Tax Center

Rabbi Peter Knobel
Central Conference of American Rabbis

Brad Lander
Pratt Center for Community Development

Donna Lieberman
American Civil Liberties Union

Rabbi Ellen Lippmann
Kolot Chayeinu/Voices of Our Lives

Myriam Miedzian
author “Boys Will Be Boys: Breaking the Link Between Masculinity and Violence”

Sammie Moshenberg
National Council of Jewish Women

MoveOn
(representative TBA)

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
Righteous Indignation

Rabbi David Saperstein
Religious Action Center

Dan Sieradski
Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Rabbi David Shneyer
Am Kolel

Dara Silverman
Jews for Racial & Economic Justice

Greg Speeter
National Priorities Project

Ann Toback
Workmen’s Circle/Arbeter Ring

Katrina Vanden Heuvel
The Nation (invited)

Rabbi Arthur Waskow
The Shalom Center

Rabbi Simkha Weintraub
Rabbis for Human Rights-North America

[email protected]
212-889-6800 ext. 274
Cost: $36 to $72 (sliding scale); $18 low income
No one turned away for lack of funds.

Registration Form: http://www.circle.org/jewsuniting/reg_form.pdf
Online Registration form:
https://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/602/t/7445/shop/custom.jsp?donate_page_KEY=3732

See You There!

Official Website: http://www.circle.org/jewsuniting/