On November 14 2014, APN hosted Barbara Slavin of the Atlantic Council and al-Monitor.com, an expert on Iran, for a briefing call on the deal brewing between Teheran and the international community, as they approach the November 24 deadline for a comprehensive solution to Iran's nuclear program.
Most American Jewish tour groups are shown a historical-religious theme park version of a nominally 'united' Jerusalem - in which the Arabic-speaking, Palestinian east of the city and its grievances is simply invisible.
Imagine this is your city.
Imagine that one of its neighborhoods is Shuafat, a walled-off refugee camp with 80,000 people and no legal order or adequate city services, where zealots who recognize the rule of a Supreme Being not a Supreme Court judge, take actions that are daily heightening tensions in the city and new tenants take over the top floor of a home under the veil of darkness and proclaim that they are "Judaizing" the street of an overwhelmingly Arab neighborhood, throwing out the belongings of the family who is living there and camping on the top floor with their children, and their guns.
Welcome to Jerusalem, yes, Jerusalem.
Please join us for a briefing call with Barbara Slavin of the Atlantic Council, an expert on Iran. Ms. Slavin will share her analysis of the current negotiations with Iran on its nuclear program, and help us beter understand the state of affairs as the negotiating parties approach the November 25 deadline.
The What Would Leibel Do (WWLD)? Awards Dinner
Sunday, January 11, 2015
Named for long-time APN Board Member Leonard "Leibel" Fein, who passed away in August, the event will be
Sunday, January 11, in Boston.
Sidney Topol will receive the inaugural "Leonard Fein Justice Award," and Rabbi Toba Spitzer the "Elizabeth
Wyner Mark Peace Award."
Invitation to Come
The underlying cause of the current crisis is to be found in the inherent dysfunctionality of Israeli rule in East Jerusalem
WHAT POSSESSES hundreds, sometimes thousands of Palestinian youths to clash nightly with Israeli police? That is a
question that official Israel, and most particularly Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, has neither asked nor
answered. Why? Because doing so would challenge his axiomatic faith in “united Jerusalem” – a Jerusalem that
doesn’t exist.
By Rabbi Dr. Marc Gopin
THE PORTION OF HAYYEI SARAH: GENESIS 23-25:18
This portion of Genesis is an end of life saga, but at the same time it is a secret testimony, a message delivered across the ages, as to what it means to perpetuate life on a promised land, how one can make it an eternal life on the land. It is momentous and dramatic, focusing both on the burial of the old generation and the continuity of the next generation, with Isaac’s marriage to Rebekah. None of these changes, however, guarantee any perpetual relationship to the land. The secret to that lies in the nature of their dealings with their neighbors.
MAKING PEACE POSSIBLE: Bringing Together an American Jewish Response
Three prominent national Jewish community leaders discuss the path to Israeli-Palestinian peace and the current
challenges to Israel’s Jewish and democratic values.
December 18, 2014, 7pm
