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Brit Tzedek v'Shalom
Jewish Alliance for Justice and Peace
Chapter Activities
Connecticut
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Who We Are
| Chair Debbie Elkin Co-Chair Aaron Goode |
Advisory Board Rabbi Herbert Brockman Joseph Dimow Professor Steven Fraade Professor Paula Hyman Rabbi Alan Lovins Elana Ponet Professor Stephen Wizner Rhoda Zahler |
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Upcoming Events
Tuesday, June 24th
5:30 PM
Yale Center for British Art
"MIDDLE EAST PEACE THROUGH ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVISM," Panel with Israeli Environmentalist Gidon Bromberg, June 24, Yale Center for British Art, 5:30 pm
More information about the event can be found at here.
Wednesday, May 21st
7:30 PM
JCC in Woodbridge, Legion Room
“The America-Israel Relationship at 60,” a discussion with Professor David Albert
What is the nature of the US-Israel relationship and how has it changed over the years? Professor Albert will be presenting his paper on this subject at the Association for Israel Studies conference at NYU during the week of May 19. Professor Albert is also a Brit Tzedek board member and can answer questions about peace efforts in the American Jewish community, the newly formed J Street Project, National Advocacy Days, and other topics that may be of interest.
For more information please contact the New Haven Chapter.
Sunday March 23, 2008
2-4 PM, JCC in Woodbridge
Program will be held in the Woodbridge Room.
Light refreshments will be served.
Dotan Greenvald of Breaking The Silence
For more information on Breaking the Silence, please see www.shovrimshtika.org/index_e.asp or www.breakingthesilenceexhibit.org.
January 27, 2008
9:30-11:30 AM
Jewish Community Center of Greater New Haven, 360 Amity Road, Woodbridge
Talk: The Annapolis Peace Process: Why It’s Good for the Jews
Please join us to hear Rob Levy, Brit Tzedek’s Washington Representative, speak at one of the Sunday morning Taste of Honey workshops.
For more information please contact the New Haven Chapter.
January 27, 2008
12:00-1:30 PM
Jewish Community Center of Greater New Haven, 360 Amity Road, Woodbridge
Working lunch with Brit Tzedek’s Washington Representative Rob Levy
Please join us for a "working lunch" advocacy strategy session with Brit Tzedek’s Washigton Representative Rob Levy where we will talk nuts and bolts strategy about how to build and strengthen relationships with every member of the Connecticut Congressional delegation in order to spread our pro-Israel, pro-peace message.
For more information or to RSVP please contact the New Haven Chapter.
January 26, 2008
8:00-9:00 PM
Jewish Community Center of Greater New Haven, 360 Amity Road, Woodbridge
Responding to Israel in a Time of Hope: What the American Jewish community must do now to ensure the success of the Annapolis peace process
Please join us to hear Rob Levy, Brit Tzedek’s Washington Representative, speak at one of the Saturday evening Taste of Honey workshops.
For more information please contact the New Haven Chapter.
December 21, 2007
2:00-5:00 PM
Harbour Landing Condominium Complex – City Point section of New Haven
(Post-) Hanukkah Party
You are warmly invited to a (Post-) Hanukkah Party! We would love for you to join us for singing, refreshments (vegetarian potluck - please bring something for all to share!), and good company. Many thanks to chapter member Lynn Coville for being our Hanukkah party host for the second straight year!
For more information and to RSVP please contact Aaron at aaron.goode@gmail.com or 510-207-6310.
April 18, 2007, 8:00pm
An evening with Dr. Stephen P. Cohen at Yale's Slifka Center
Sponsored by Yale Hillel, Judaic Studies at Yale, the Jewish Federation of Greater New Haven, and Brit Tzedek v'Shalom;
Dr. Cohen will speak on "The Unique Responsibility of Young Educated Jews to be the Vanguard of Effective Communication with the Muslim world." We hope you can join us!
TWO screenings of the film "West Bank Story," 2006 Academy Award winner for Best Live Action Short. Discussion will follow.
* Sunday, March 25 - 10:30 am - JCC (Legion Avenue Room) - 360 Amity Rd. - Woodbridge
* Thursday, March 29 - 7 pm - JCC (Room TBA) - 360 Amity Rd. - Woodbridge
Thursday March 1, 2007, 7:30 PM
"By The Well of Hagar and Sarah" Presenation
Dwight Hall Chapel,
Yale University Campus
By The Well of Hagar and Sarah is a multimedia art installation and ritual theater by two women from Israel/Palestine-a Musilm and Jew living togehter in ONE war-torn land. More information is available here.
Tuesday, January 16, 2007
Combatants for Peace Tour
Temple Emanuel of Greater New Haven
150 Derby Avenue, Orange
Brit Tzedek's Combatants for Peace Tour will be coming to Connecticut on Tuesday, January 16, 2007. The two speakers, Elik Elhanan and Sulaiman Al Hamri, will be giving a talk at Temple Emanuel of Greater New Haven, located at 150 Derby Avenue in Orange. More details to follow. For more information on the Combatants for Peace Tour, including bios of the speakers and a description of Combatants for Peace, please click here.
January 17, 2007
Combatants for Peace Tour
Woodbridge, CT
12 noon, "Lunch and Learn," lunch provided, Jewish Community Center of Greater New Haven, 360 Amity Rd.
Sponsors: Jewish Federation of Greater New Haven and Congregation Mishkan Israel
Please RSVP if you plan to attend to Ruth Gross at the Jewish Federation (203) 387-2424 x310
January 17, 2007
Combatants for Peace Tour
Bridgeport, CT
7:30pm, Bridgeport Jewish Center for Community Services, 4200 Park Ave
Sponsor: Connecticut Chapter of Brit Tzedek v'Shalom
For more information, contact Joe Dimow by email or (203) 781-8447 or Laurie Gross at JCCS at (203) 372-6567
July 31, 2006
Discussion with Rose Weinberg
Brit Tzedek v'Shalom Connecticut will be sponsoring a discussion with Israeli peace activist and Connecticut native, Rose Weinberg. The event will take place at 7:30 PM on Monday, July 31 in the Legion Avenue Room at the JCC in Woodbridge. Tea and coffee will be available. We hope to discuss not only the present conflict but also some of the long-term issues underlying it.
As always, our prayers are with innocent Israelis, Palestinians and Lebanese. We would be pleased to hear your thoughts and feelings about the present conflict, and to discuss with you ways to become more involved in Brit Tzedek's effort to bring about sustainable solutions in the Middle East.
Open Discussion and Breakfast
Brit Tzedek v'Shalom Connecticut will be holding an open discussion and breakfast, at the Jewish Community Center of Greater New Haven in the Legion Avenue room. The discussion will run from 10:30 AM to noon and will be moderated by Connecticut chapter member Mike Krauss. The discussion topic will be entirely up to attendees. We?ll bring bagels and lox, and would be happy to take contributions toward the cost.
PLEASE RSVP for directions and so that we can plan for the breakfast! Email us. Also note: members in good standing are invited to attend a Chapter Steering Committee Meeting that will run from 9:30 AM until 10:30 AM on Sunday, before the discussion and breakfast.
April 3, 2006
America, the Israel Lobby and the Future of Israel-Palestine - Daniel Levy speaks at Yale. This event is sponsored by Yale Friends of Israel, the Council on Middle East Studies of YCIAS, and Brit Tzedek v’Shalom. Daniel Levy was the lead Israeli drafter of the Geneva Initiative and is now directing policy planning and international efforts at the Geneva Campaign Headquarters in Tel Aviv. He previously served as senior policy adviser to former Israeli Minister of Justice, Yossi Beilin, and has worked as an analyst for the International Crisis Group Middle East Program.
March 30, 2006
PALESTINIAN AND ISRAELI ELECTIONS: Elections for Peace or for Intensification of Conflict? STEPHEN P. COHEN, founder and President of the Institute for Middle East Peace and Development and a National Scholar of Israel Policy Forum, spoke at the Jewish Community Center of Greater New Haven this Thursday. Directly after the Israeli elections, this was a valuable opportunity for our larger community to come together and reflect on the implications of these changes. Sponsored by: Brit Tzedek v’Shalom, Connecticut Chapter, Israel Task Force of the Jewish Federation of Greater New Haven, Department of Jewish Education of the Jewish Federation of Greater New Haven.
May 21, 2005
Rabbi Arik Ascherman, Executive Director of Rabbis for Human Rights in Israel, was the guest speaker at Congregation Beth El-Keser Israel.
May 20, 2005
Rabbi Arik Ascherman, Executive Director of Rabbis for Human Rights in Israel, was the guest speaker at Congregation Mishkan Israel's annual Robert E. Goldburg Peace and Justice service.
April 11, 2005
An Olive on the Seder Plate is a multimedia performance exploring how progressive Jews wrestle with the Israeli military occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Sponsored by Yale Friends of Israel, co-sponsored by Brit Tzedek v'Shalom.
January 30, 2005
The Connecticut chapter membership meeting at Congregation Beth El-Keser Israel in New Haven.
January 24, 2005
Brit Tzedek v'Shalom issues and policy discussion in Woodmont.
December 18, 2004
Brit Tzedek v'Shalom post-Hannukah party in Stratford.
October 10, 2004
Naomi Chazan, former Member of Knesset, at the JCC of Greater New Haven at 1:00pm, sponsored by Brit Tzedek v'Shalom, MeretzUSA, the Israel/Overseas Taskforce of the Jewish Federation of Greater New Haven, the Social Action Committee of Congregation Mishkan Israel, and the Department of Jewish Education of the Jewish Federation. She spoke on the topic of "The Future of Israel as a Jewish and Democratic State: Prospects for Peace."
October 10, 2004
Naomi Chazan spoke at the Joseph Slifka Center for Jewish Life at Yale, 80 Wall Street in New Haven at 7:00pm. She chose the topic of "The Future of Israel as a Jewish and Democratic State: Prospects for Peace." This event was co-sponsored by Connecticut Brit Tzedek v'Shalom, MeretzUSA, the Joseph Slifka Center, and Yale Friends of Israel.
September 9, 2004
Brit Tzedek v'Shalom Issues Discussion at the Jewish Community Center of Greater New Haven.
July 18, 2004
The Connecticut chapter had a beach party and discussed the issues of concern relating to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
June 27, 2004
Diane Balser, national Vice-President of Brit Tzedek v'Shalom, spoke on "What can U.S. Jews do to support Peace between Israelis and Palestinians?" at the Jewish Community Center of Greater New Haven.
Peace Concert, featuring Yossi Chajes, David Chevan and the Afro-Semitic Experience, Cantor Shoshana Lash, Diane Orson, Dorothy Goldberg, Rick Calvert, and Janet Rosen, at Congregation Mishkan Israel, Hamden, CT. Sponsored by Brit Tzedek v'Shalom and the Social Action Committee of Congregation Mishkan Israel.
October 21, 2003
Will the security fence / separation wall make Israel more secure? A discussion led by Philip Bennett, faculty in Applied Ethics at Fairfield University; and a first-hand report by Yael Martin, co-chair of the CT Chapter of Brit Tzedek v'Shalom, just back from 3 weeks in Israel. Jewish Community Center of Greater New Haven.
September 15, 2003
Brit Tzedek v'Shalom national president, Marcia Freedman, former member of the Israeli Knesset, spoke at the Jewish Community Center of Greater New Haven
July 20, 2003
Beach party, member talks on Call to Bring the Settlers Home and Road Map, and national Brit Tzedek v'Shalom conference call with Amram Mitzna.
June 8, 2003
Yaniv Iczkovits, co-founder of Courage to Refuse, spoke at the Jewish Community Center of Greater New Haven, sponsored by Brit Tzedek v'Shalom.
February 12, 2003
Amit Mashiach, Courage to Refuse , spoke at Wesleyan University, co-sponsored by Brit Tzedek v'Shalom and the Third Path, a local Wesleyan student group dedicated to Israeli-Palestinian peace.
February 6, 2003
Ron Young, founder and director of the U.S. Interreligious Committee for Peace in the Middle East, spoke at the Slifka Center for Jewish Life at Yale University, co-sponsored by Yale Hillel and Brit Tzedek v'Shalom. Ron Young has been doing his best for 30 years to bring together Muslims, Jews and Christians from around the US to use their good offices to influence the US government to work for peace and reconciliation between Israeli Jews and Palestinian Arabs. He is author of Missed Opportunities for Peace: U.S. Middle East Policy, 1981-86.
January 12, 2003
Report from Israel and the West Bank: Rabbi Alan Lovins and Peter Nagle. Alan is a member of Brit Tzedek v'Shalom, Peter a Catholic peace activist. Together they visited a number of Israeli-Palestinian and Jewish-Christian-Muslim projects, including Seeds of Peace, the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions, one school on the West Bank, and one in Israel. They described the people they met who are working for peace and reconciliation against all odds, and the hopeful projects those people are working on. Their talk, held at the Slifka Center for Jewish Life at Yale, included photos and a discussion of what people interested in peace can do to support those who are working toward it.
November 17, 2002
Brit Tzedek v'Shalom national president, Marcia Freedman, former member of the Israeli Knesset, spoke at the Jewish Community Center of Greater New Haven at an event organized by the New Haven Area Chapter of Brit Tzedek v'Shalom.
November 2, 2002
Rabbi David Forman, founder of the Israeli Rabbis for Human Rights, spoke at Congregation Mishkan Israel. The New Haven Area Chapter of Brit Tzedek v'Shalom co-sponsored this event with the Social Action Committee of Congregation Mishkan Israel.
October 14, 2002
As part of a 14-city Brit Tzedek-sponsored tour, members of the Parents' Circle/Bereaved Families Forum (Israelis and Palestinians who have lost family members in the conflict), Amiram and Tilda Goldblum, Tamara Rabinowitz and Dr. Rihab Essawi spoke at the Jewish Community Center of Greater New Haven, co-sponsored by The New Haven Area Chapter of Brit Tzedek v'Shalom, Congregation Mishkan Israel Social Action Committee, Congregation Beth El-Keser Israel, and the Department of Jewish Education of the Jewish Federation of Greater New Haven.
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Letters to the Editor
- The New Haven Register and The Jewish Ledger May 12, 2004 and May 28, 2004
- The New Haven Register
3/23/2004
Friend' Bush has done zilch to help Israel
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- Jewish Ledger
March 3, 2004
Letter in support of Geneva Accord to Congressional Delegation
[read more]
- New York
March 1, 2004
Reaction to article on Israel and Palestine which failed to mention the Geneva Accord
[read more]
- Jewish Ledger
January 28, 2004
Reaction to a dismissal of the Geneva Accord in Jewish paper
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- New Haven Register
November 29, 2003
Story of former Israeli chiefs of security criticizing Prime Minister Sharon
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Both papers printed the following, but edited it, in different ways. However, both papers left off the first paragraph, that read:
According to tradition, when Moses first brought news to the Jews that Pharoah finally said they could go, many did not want to go. Why? Because the choice people have to make is not between slavery and freedom but between slavery and the unknown.
The two versions:
New Haven Register [read more]
Jewish Ledger [read more]
Local Press Coverage
- New Haven Register
May 24, 2007
Billboard to promote peace in West Bank
While many in the United States fire up their grills this Memorial Day weekend, billboard company owner and peace activist Bruce Barrett will be in the Israeli-occupied West Bank territory overseeing the painting of a billboard promoting nonviolence. Read More
- New Haven Register
January 17, 2007
Old Enemies Team Up With message
Elik Elhanan was a paratrooper for the Israeli Defense Forces when his sister was killed in a Jerusalem suicide bombing a decade ago; Sulaiman Al Hamri, a Palestinian reistance figher, was in Bethlehem after spending more than four years in an Israeli jail. Read More - New Haven Register
- Shalom New Haven
January, 2007
Former Israeli, Palestinian Combatants to Speak Jan 16 at Temple Emanuel, Jan. 17 at JCC
A former Israeli solider Elik Elhanan and a former Palestinian combatant and prisoner Sulaiman Al Hamri will appear together on January 16 and January 17 to advocate for non-violent alternatives for achieving a resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Read More - The Shofar
January, 2007
Save January 16th - Special "Combatants for Peace" Program
In conjunction with Brit Tzedek v'Shalom, Temple Emanuel will be hosting a program featuring members of "Combatants for Peace." Read More - Jewish Ledger
March 16, 2006
Rabbis Petition Bush to Aid Palestinians
Nearly 400 American rabbis, including ten from Connecticut, have signed a letter to President George W. Bush, urging him to maintain a ?cautious approach? to the new Palestinian government, while continuing ?indirect? financial aid to the Palestinian people.
- New Haven Advocate
November 21, 2002
There Is Another Way: A New Group Tries to Wrest the Israeli-Palestinian Debate from the Extremists.
Early last week, Yale students showed their sympathy for Palestinians by setting up a mock Israeli checkpoint and pretending to shoot a pregnant Palestinian woman... Sunday, Marcia Freedman came to the area with a different message: You can be pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian, anti-occupation and anti-terrorism.
- New Haven Register
November 18, 2002
New group urges American Jews to help advocate Mideast peace
A new national organization is asking the American-Jewish community to help advocate a two-state solution to help end the fighting in the Middle East.
January 16, 2007
Former Mideast enemies push for peace
A former Israeli soldier and a former Palestinian combatant and prisoner will discuss their advocacy of nonviolent alternatives for achieving a resolution to the Israeli Palestinian conflict. Read More
Contacting Connecticut Congressional Representatives
Senator Chris Dodd |
Third District Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro DC: Phone: (202) 225-3661 Fax: (202) 225-4890 District Office: 59 Elm Street New Haven, CT 06510 Phone: (203) 562-3718 Fax: (203) 772-2260 Durham, Middlefield and Middletown: Phone: (860) 344-1159 Stratford: Phone: (203) 378-9005 Fourth District Congressman Christopher Shays DC: Phone: (202) 225-5541 District Offices: 10 Middle Street, 11th Floor Bridgeport, CT 06604-4223 Government Center 888 Washington Boulevard Stamford, CT 06901-2927 Phone: (203) 579-5870 Fax: (203) 579-0771 Norwalk: Phone: (203) 866-6469 Stamford: Phone: (203) 357-8277 Fax: (203) 357-1050 Ridgefield: Phone: (203) 438-5953 Shelton: Phone: (203) 402-0426 Fifth District Congressman Chris Murphy DC: Phone: (202) 225-4476 Fax: (202) 225-4488 District Offices: One Grove Street New Britain, CT 06053 Phone: (860) 223-8412 Fax: (860) 827-9009 Meriden Office: 22-26 West Main Street Meriden, CT 06450 Phone: (203) 630-0815 Fax: (203) 630-1903 Danbury Office: 198 Main Street Danbury, CT 06810 Phone: (203) 798-2072 |
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