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Social Action | Mid East Reflections on recent travels to Israel, the West Bank, and Lebanon: a focus on health and human rights, with Dr. Alice Rothchild
Presentation and discussion with Dr. Alice Rothchild on her most recent trip to the Middle East
Sunday, May 17 (as part of the Kumzitz series)
10:45am - 12:15pm
55 Naples Rd., Brookline
Dr. Rothchild is an Assistant Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Biology at Harvard Medical School and the author of "Broken Promises, Broken Dreams: Stories of Jewish and Palestinian Trauma and Resilience". She works with a health and human rights project, collaborating with Physicians for Human Rights-Israel and the Palestinian Medical Relief Society. In her book, she brings to life the voices of people mutually entwined in trauma and conflict, and explores individual examples of resilience and resistance.
In 1997, through her involvement in the Boston Workmen's Circle, a progressive secular Jewish organization, Dr. Rothchild turned much of her non-medical focus to understanding the Israeli/Palestinian conflict and its relationship to US foreign policy and American Jewry. She co-founded and co-chairs Visions of Peace with Justice in Israel/Palestine and co-organized the Health and Human Rights Project. In addition Dr. Rothchild continues to play a key role in Boston Workmen’s Circle as an active member; a member of the Boston Workmen’s Circle Middle East Working Group; an organizer of the annual Passover Seder, and as a singer in The Boston Workmen’s Circle Yiddish Chorus.Back
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