Category: Events

Please join our brothers and sisters from JVP Seattle at this upcoming event.

 

	Date:	Wednesday, Nov 8, 2017
	Time:	12:00 – 1:00 p.m.
	Location:	US District Court Plaza, Seattle 7th Ave @ Stewart St
	Information:	Facebook event Sponsor page

Event Details

Join us in action to call on the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) to end its deadly law enforcement exchanges between the U.S. and Israel.

Under the banner of “counter-terrorism,” the ADL’s police exchange programs send high-ranking U.S. law enforcement, FBI and ICE officials to train with Israeli police, military and intelligence agencies. These trainings transform Israel’s 70 years of dispossession and 50 years of Occupation into a marketing brochure for successful policing — reinforcing racist & militarized policing in Palestine/Israel and the U.S.

Our own Seattle Police participated in these programs in 2013 and 2015, and it’s time to make clear that these deadly exchanges must end. In Seattle, we need housing, services and support for targeted communities, not more militarized, racist policing. At the action, local activists will speak to these connections between the crisis of police violence here and Israeli occupation and apartheid abroad.

On the anniversary of Trump’s election, with highly visible white supremacist violence, islamophobia and antisemitism on the rise, let’s remind the ADL that it is time for everyone to choose a side — upholding the racist, violent status quo or fighting for a just future, in Seattle and in Palestine/Israel.

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Please join our brothers and sisters from Kairos Puget Sound at this advocacy workshop.

	Date:	Saturday, Nov 11, 2017
	Time:	9:00 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.
	Location:	Episcopal Diocese of Olympia 1551 10th Ave E Seattle, WA  98102
	Information:	Event website Questions
	Tickets:	$15 / $5 students (includes lunch)

Event Details

Conference will feature keynote speaker Cindy Corrie, Director of Rachel Corrie Foundation, who will discuss “Principled Advocacy” followed by Nada Elia discussing Nuts and Bolts of Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions and the current legislative efforts to stifle this initiative. Workshops will include letter writing, using social media to get the word out, and organizing a visit to your legislator.

More information here →

Please join our brothers and sisters from JVP Seattle at this upcoming event.

 

	Date:	Wednesday, Nov 8, 2017
	Time:	12:00 – 1:00 p.m.
	Location:	Downtown Seattle (specifics TBD)
	Information:	Facebook event Sponsor page

Event Details

Join us in action to call on the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) to end its deadly law enforcement exchanges between the U.S. and Israel.

Under the banner of “counter-terrorism,” the ADL’s police exchange programs send high-ranking U.S. law enforcement, FBI and ICE officials to train with Israeli police, military and intelligence agencies. These trainings transform Israel’s 70 years of dispossession and 50 years of Occupation into a marketing brochure for successful policing — reinforcing racist & militarized policing in Palestine/Israel and the U.S.

Our own Seattle Police participated in these programs in 2013 and 2015, and it’s time to make clear that these deadly exchanges must end. In Seattle, we need housing, services and support for targeted communities, not more militarized, racist policing. At the action, local activists will speak to these connections between the crisis of police violence here and Israeli occupation and apartheid abroad.

On the anniversary of Trump’s election, with highly visible white supremacist violence, islamophobia and antisemitism on the rise, let’s remind the ADL that it is time for everyone to choose a side — upholding the racist, violent status quo or fighting for a just future, in Seattle and in Palestine/Israel.

More information here →

*** THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED. ***

Announcement from Temple De Hirsh Sinai

Dear Co-Sponsors of Roots: A Local Palestinian-Israeli Initiative for Understanding,

It is with disappointment that I am writing to inform you that Roots has been postponed. Our speakers incurred unforeseen travel circumstances that prevent us from hosting the program. This also means that the 6 PM reception has been cancelled.

For those that have already sent in funds for your sponsorship we will process reimbursing you ASAP. Please be in touch with our Adult Engagement Coordinator, Rabbi Kate Speizer, kspeizer@tdhs-nw.org or (206) 693-3046 with any questions about this.

Thank you for your understanding and the partnership you provide for this important work,

— Rabbi Daniel Weiner

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Please join our brothers and sisters for Roots: A Local Palestinian-Israeli Initiative for Understanding, Nonviolence and Transformation.

	Date:	Thursday, Nov 2, 2017
	Time:	7:00 – 9:00 p.m.
	Location:	Temple De Hirsch Sinai 1511 E Pike St Seattle, WA 98122
	Information:	Event website Email questions
	Tickets:	free

Event Details

A unique dialogue between an Israeli-Jewish settler and Palestinian activist as they struggle to achieve understanding. Ali Abu Awwad is a leading Palestinian activist teaching his countrymen non-violent resistance, and reaching out to Jewish Israelis at the heart of the conflict. Ali has toured the world many times over, telling his riveting story of violent activism, imprisonment, bereavement and discovery of the path of non-violent resistance, a story of personal transformation. Hanan Schlesinger is an Orthodox rabbi and teacher, and a passionate Zionist settler who has been profoundly transformed by his friendship with Ali. Join Ali and Hanan as they tell their personal stories and of their efforts to build a better future for their peoples. They come with no ready peace plans in hand, but only with the conviction that human understanding and trust will be the prerequisites for lasting justice, freedom and peace on that tiny sliver of land that they both call home.

More information here →

Please join our brothers and sisters from Kairos Puget Sound at this advocacy workshop.

	Date:	Saturday, Nov 11, 2017
	Time:	9:00 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.
	Location:	Episcopal Diocese of Olympia 1551 10th Ave E Seattle, WA  98102
	Information:	Event website Questions
	Tickets:	$15 / $5 students (includes lunch)

Event Details

Conference will feature keynote speaker Cindy Corrie, Director of Rachel Corrie Foundation, who will discuss “Principled Advocacy” followed by Nada Elia discussing Nuts and Bolts of Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions and the current legislative efforts to stifle this initiative. Workshops will include letter writing, using social media to get the word out, and organizing a visit to your legislator.

More information here →

Please join our brothers and sisters from JVP Seattle at this upcoming event.

	Date:	Wednesday, Nov 8, 2017
	Time:	12:00 – 1:00 p.m.
	Location:	Downtown Seattle (specifics TBD)
	Information:	Facebook event Sponsor page

Event Details

Join us in action to call on the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) to end its deadly law enforcement exchanges between the U.S. and Israel.

Under the banner of “counter-terrorism,” the ADL’s police exchange programs send high-ranking U.S. law enforcement, FBI and ICE officials to train with Israeli police, military and intelligence agencies. These trainings transform Israel’s 70 years of dispossession and 50 years of Occupation into a marketing brochure for successful policing — reinforcing racist & militarized policing in Palestine/Israel and the U.S.

Our own Seattle Police participated in these programs in 2013 and 2015, and it’s time to make clear that these deadly exchanges must end. In Seattle, we need housing, services and support for targeted communities, not more militarized, racist policing. At the action, local activists will speak to these connections between the crisis of police violence here and Israeli occupation and apartheid abroad.

On the anniversary of Trump’s election, with highly visible white supremacist violence, islamophobia and antisemitism on the rise, let’s remind the ADL that it is time for everyone to choose a side — upholding the racist, violent status quo or fighting for a just future, in Seattle and in Palestine/Israel.

More information here →

Please join our brothers and sisters for Roots: A Local Palestinian-Israeli Initiative for Understanding, Nonviolence and Transformation.

	Date:	Thursday, Nov 2, 2017
	Time:	7:00 – 9:00 p.m.
	Location:	Temple De Hirsch Sinai 1511 E Pike St Seattle, WA 98122
	Information:	Event website Email questions
	Tickets:	free

Event Details

A unique dialogue between an Israeli-Jewish settler and Palestinian activist as they struggle to achieve understanding. Ali Abu Awwad is a leading Palestinian activist teaching his countrymen non-violent resistance, and reaching out to Jewish Israelis at the heart of the conflict. Ali has toured the world many times over, telling his riveting story of violent activism, imprisonment, bereavement and discovery of the path of non-violent resistance, a story of personal transformation. Hanan Schlesinger is an Orthodox rabbi and teacher, and a passionate Zionist settler who has been profoundly transformed by his friendship with Ali. Join Ali and Hanan as they tell their personal stories and of their efforts to build a better future for their peoples. They come with no ready peace plans in hand, but only with the conviction that human understanding and trust will be the prerequisites for lasting justice, freedom and peace on that tiny sliver of land that they both call home.

More information here →

Naim Ateek is a Palestinian priest in the Anglican Church and founder of the Sabeel Ecumenical Liberation Theology Center in Jerusalem.

	Date:	Thursday, Oct 12, 2017
	Time:	2:30 – 4:00 pm
	Location:	Episcopal Diocesan House 1551 10th Ave E Seattle, WA 98102
	Information:	Email questions here
	Tickets:	Free

Event Details

We are pleased to welcome the Reverend Naim Ateek, founder of Sabeel, and Tarek Abuta, Executive Director of Friends of Sabeel North America (FOSNA), to Seattle. Rev. Ateek and Mr. Abuta will be in town to mark the launch of the Bishop Edmund Lee Browning Memorial Fund, honoring the former Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church. Bishop Browning was instrumental in the founding of FOSNA and one of the strongest supporters of Sabeel.

The Fund is being created to support seminarians and seminary faculty who wish to go on witness trips to Palestine.

Bishop Rickel will host a public reception at the Diocesan House, a block north of St. Mark’s Cathedral. All are welcome!