BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Boston Workers Circle - ECPv6.17.1//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://circleboston.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Boston Workers Circle REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20220313T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20221106T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20230312T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20231105T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20240310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20241103T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20250309T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20251102T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240626T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240626T203000 DTSTAMP:20240626T204459Z CREATED:20240506T122447Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240626T204459Z UID:10001827-1719428400-1719433800@circleboston.org SUMMARY:Jewish Muslim Solidarity Committee Meeting DESCRIPTION:The Jewish Muslim Solidarity Committee (JMS) works to build and strengthen constructive\, mutually supportive relations between Jews and Muslims in Greater Boston. It is especially focused on Muslims’ and Jews’ mutual interest in continuing to learn about and engage with one another\, including on difficult issues\, all the while recognizing our common interest in opposing all manifestations of Islamophobia and antisemitism\, by standing together in the face of any form of ethnic harassment. The JMSC engages in political action\, community education\, and cooperative efforts with Boston area Muslims and Jews to foster its goal of deepening Jewish-Muslim understanding and solidarity. Our work is based on our belief that human rights are universal and human communities and individuals share the same rights and responsibilities toward one another.  \nTo find out more about the meeting and get the zoom link\, please email jms@circleboston.org URL:https://circleboston.org/event/jewish-muslim-solidarity-committee-meeting-30/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:Jewish Musilim Solidarity Committee END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240620T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240620T203000 DTSTAMP:20240620T204458Z CREATED:20240617T193311Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240620T204458Z UID:10002089-1718910000-1718915400@circleboston.org SUMMARY:The Road to Peace: A Collaborative Jewish-Muslim Discussion DESCRIPTION:The Road to Peace event is hosted by Know Your Neighbor Woburn in collaboration with the Islamic Council of New England and Boston Workers Circle. The panel will feature Jewish\, Muslim\, and Christian thought leaders in a moderated conversation. It takes place Thursday\, June 20 at 7:00pm at the Woburn Public Library and on Zoom. Click here for registration or to find out more. URL:https://circleboston.org/event/the-road-to-peace-a-collaborative-jewish-muslim-discussion/ LOCATION:Fireplace South Gallery\, Woburn Public Library\, 45 Pleasant St\, Woburn\, MA 01801\, USA & Zoom CATEGORIES:Jewish Musilim Solidarity Committee END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240522T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240522T203000 DTSTAMP:20240522T204102Z CREATED:20240506T122446Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240522T204102Z UID:10001826-1716404400-1716409800@circleboston.org SUMMARY:Jewish Muslim Solidarity Committee Meeting DESCRIPTION:The Jewish Muslim Solidarity Committee (JMS) works to build and strengthen constructive\, mutually supportive relations between Jews and Muslims in Greater Boston. It is especially focused on Muslims’ and Jews’ mutual interest in continuing to learn about and engage with one another\, including on difficult issues\, all the while recognizing our common interest in opposing all manifestations of Islamophobia and antisemitism\, by standing together in the face of any form of ethnic harassment. The JMSC engages in political action\, community education\, and cooperative efforts with Boston area Muslims and Jews to foster its goal of deepening Jewish-Muslim understanding and solidarity. Our work is based on our belief that human rights are universal and human communities and individuals share the same rights and responsibilities toward one another.  \nTo find out more about the meeting and get the zoom link\, please email jms@circleboston.org URL:https://circleboston.org/event/jewish-muslim-solidarity-committee-meeting-29/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:Jewish Musilim Solidarity Committee END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240508T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240508T210000 DTSTAMP:20240508T203640Z CREATED:20240417T154222Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240508T203640Z UID:10001790-1715196600-1715202000@circleboston.org SUMMARY:Lasting Peace: What will it take? DESCRIPTION:Register Here.It is six months since October 7th\, and our hearts are still breaking. How can the recognition of our joint humanity help move the world forward to a resolution of the tragedy taking place in Gaza and Israel? \nPlease join us for a webinar with leading thinkers and activists on the crisis in the Middle East. This event has been developed through a collaboration between the Islamic Council of New England and the Jewish Muslim Solidarity Committee of the Boston Workers Circle. \nParticipants:Opening Reflection Rabbi Aryeh Cohen\, PhD\, Professor of Rabbinic Literature\, Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies. \nModerator: Eman Khadra Ansari\, M.D.\, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics\, Harvard Medical School; PICU committee\, Palestinian Children’s Relief Fund \nPanelists:Susan M. Akram\, Clinical Professor & Director\, International Human Rights Clinic\, Boston University School of Law Leila Farsakh\, Professor of Political Science\, University of Massachusetts BostonGregory Khalil\, Co-founder & President\, Telos; Adjunct Professor\, Columbia University Graduate School of JournalismJon A. Levisohn\, Jack\, Joseph\, and Morton Mandel Assoc. Professor of Jewish Educational Thought\, Brandeis UniversityNadav Weiman\, Deputy Director\, Breaking the SilenceSpeaker Bios \nRabbi Aryeh Cohen\, PhD  \nRabbi Aryeh Cohen\, PhD is Professor of Rabbinic Literature and a former chair of the Rabbinics Department in the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies. Cohen’s research is on the border of scholarship and activism. His latest book\, Justice in the City: An Argument from the Sources of Rabbinic Judaism\, emerges from rabbinic literature and contemporary philosophy to engage concerns of the city: restorative justice\, labor\, houseleness.  \nDr. Cohen is a co-convener of the Black Jewish JusticeAlliance (BJJA) and a member of Clergy for Black Lives. With Clergy for Black Lives\, he co-organized one of the largest memorial demonstrations in Downtown Los Angeles after the murder of George Floyd. Dr. Cohen is a commissioner of the Los Angeles City Ethics Commission\, and an advisor to the Los Angeles County District Attorney as a member of the DA’s Interfaith Advisory Board. Dr. Cohen is the president of the Society of Jewish Ethics\, and past co-chair of the board of CLUE (Clergy and Laity United for Economic Justice). \nEman Khadra Ansari\, M.D. Assistant Professor of Pediatrics\, Harvard Medical School \nEman Ansari is a Palestinian-American pediatric pulmonary and critical care physician\, a practicing pediatric emergency physician at Boston Children’s Hospital (BCH)\, and an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. She is the head of the PICU committee at PCRF and has been active in the space of health and humanitarian aid to Palestine. She’s a mother of four and lives with her husband and children in Newton\, MA. \nSusan M. Akram Clinical Professor and Director\, International Human Rights Clinic\, Boston University School of Law \nProfessor Susan Akram is a graduate of the University of Michigan (BA)\, Georgetown University School of Law (JD)\, Oxford University (MsT)\, and the Institut International des Droits del’Homme (Diplome). She directs BU Law’s International Human Rights Clinic\, in which she supervises students engaged in international advocacy in domestic\, international\, regional\, and UN fora. She teaches or has taught courses in International Human Rights\, Refugee and Migration law\, US Immigration law and Palestinian Refugees under International Law. She has taught at the American University in Cairo\, Egypt\, at Al-Quds and Birzeit Universities in Palestine\, the Oxford University Refugee Studies Center and the University of Murcia in Spain. She is a double Fulbright Senior Scholar award recipient\, to Palestine (1999-2000) and Spain (2021-22). Her research and publications focus on immigration\, asylum\, refugee\, forced migration and human and civil rights issues\, with an interest in the Middle East\, the Arab\, and Muslim world. \nLeila Farsakh\, Ph.D. Professor of Political Science\, University of Massachusetts Boston \nNew Book: Rethinking Statehood in Palestine \nLatest Article: “The Refugee Problem” \nWebpage: SelectedWorks – Leila Farsakh \nLeila Farsakh is Professor of political science at the University of Massachusetts Boston. She is the editor of Rethinking Statehood in Palestine: Self-Determination and Decolonization Beyond Partition (University of California Press\, 2021)\, and author of Palestinian Labor Migration to Israel: Labour\, Land and Occupation\, (London: Routledge\, second edition\, 2012).  She has also published widely on the political economy of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and alternative to partition in Israel/Palestine in a wide range of academic journals and non-academic venues.  In 2001\, she won the Peace and Justice Award from the Cambridge Peace Commission\, in Cambridge-Massachusetts. \nGregory Khalil\, Co-Founder & President\, Telos and Adjunct Professor\, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism \nGregory Khalil is the co-founder and President of Telos\, a Washington D.C.-based non-profit that equips American leaders and their communities to better engage seemingly intractable conflict. Much of Telos’ work has centered on the role of faith leaders and culture shapers in America’s relationship to Israel/Palestine and the broader Middle East. Before founding Telos\, Greg was a legal and communications adviser to Palestinian leaders on peace negotiations with Israel. Since 2019\, Greg has also co-taught a course called “Covering Religion” at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism.  \nJon A. Levisohn\, Ph.D. Jack\, Joseph and Morton Mandel Associate Professor of Jewish Educational Thought\, Brandeis University \nJon A. Levisohn is a philosopher of education\, who focuses primarily on Jewish education. He is on the faculty at Brandeis University\, where he chairs his department (which encompasses both Jewish and Islamic studies) and directs a research center that focuses on Jewish education. Among his books and articles\, he is the editor of the forthcoming book\, The Aims of Religious Education: Catholic\, Islamic and Jewish Perspective. For about a decade\, he has been active in Encounter\, which is dedicated to bringing American and Israeli Jews to meet with Palestinians in the West Bank\, and to understand more deeply the Israeli-Palestinian reality.  \nNadav Weiman\, Deputy Director\, Breaking the Silence \nNadav Weiman was born and raised in Tel Aviv. During his army service\, he served in a sniper’s team in the special forces of the Nahal brigade\, where he attained the rank of staff sergeant. He studied Democratic Education. He worked as a high school history and literature teacher and was the legal guardian and counselor for a home for underprivileged teens in Tel Aviv. Nadav first joined Breaking the Silence as a Testifier-Activist in 2012. In 2019 Nadav became Breaking the Silence’s Deputy Director\,  \nBreaking the Silence (BtS) is an organization of former Israeli soldiers\, which collects and utilizes testimonies from soldiers who have served in the Occupied Palestinian Territories since 2000. Through testimonies\, lectures\, and direct-encounter tours\, BtS strives to increase opposition to increase opposition to the occupation among audiences in Israel and around the world. URL:https://circleboston.org/event/lasting-peace-what-will-it-take/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:Jewish Musilim Solidarity Committee END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240424T191500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240424T204500 DTSTAMP:20240424T213644Z CREATED:20240418T210547Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240424T213644Z UID:10001793-1713986100-1713991500@circleboston.org SUMMARY:Jewish Muslim Solidarity Committee Meeting DESCRIPTION:The Jewish Muslim Solidarity Committee (JMS) works to build and strengthen constructive\, mutually supportive relations between Jews and Muslims in Greater Boston. It is especially focused on Muslims’ and Jews’ mutual interest in continuing to learn about and engage with one another\, including on difficult issues\, all the while recognizing our common interest in opposing all manifestations of Islamophobia and antisemitism\, by standing together in the face of any form of ethnic harassment. The JMSC engages in political action\, community education\, and cooperative efforts with Boston area Muslims and Jews to foster its goal of deepening Jewish-Muslim understanding and solidarity. Our work is based on our belief that human rights are universal and human communities and individuals share the same rights and responsibilities toward one another.  \nTo find out more about the meeting and get the zoom link\, please email jms@circleboston.org URL:https://circleboston.org/event/jewish-muslim-solidarity-committee-meeting-4/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:Jewish Musilim Solidarity Committee END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240327T191500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240327T204500 DTSTAMP:20240327T230255Z CREATED:20240129T165346Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240327T230255Z UID:10001292-1711566900-1711572300@circleboston.org SUMMARY:Jewish Muslim Solidarity Committee Meeting DESCRIPTION:The Jewish Muslim Solidarity Committee (JMS) works to build and strengthen constructive\, mutually supportive relations between Jews and Muslims in Greater Boston. It is especially focused on Muslims’ and Jews’ mutual interest in continuing to learn about and engage with one another\, including on difficult issues\, all the while recognizing our common interest in opposing all manifestations of Islamophobia and antisemitism\, by standing together in the face of any form of ethnic harassment. The JMSC engages in political action\, community education\, and cooperative efforts with Boston area Muslims and Jews to foster its goal of deepening Jewish-Muslim understanding and solidarity. Our work is based on our belief that human rights are universal and human communities and individuals share the same rights and responsibilities toward one another.  \nTo find out more about the meeting and get the zoom link\, please email jms@circleboston.org URL:https://circleboston.org/event/jewish-muslim-solidarity-committee-meeting-3/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:Jewish Musilim Solidarity Committee END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240228T191500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240228T204500 DTSTAMP:20240228T220256Z CREATED:20240129T165345Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240228T220256Z UID:10001291-1709147700-1709153100@circleboston.org SUMMARY:Jewish Muslim Solidarity Committee Meeting DESCRIPTION:The Jewish Muslim Solidarity Committee (JMS) works to build and strengthen constructive\, mutually supportive relations between Jews and Muslims in Greater Boston. It is especially focused on Muslims’ and Jews’ mutual interest in continuing to learn about and engage with one another\, including on difficult issues\, all the while recognizing our common interest in opposing all manifestations of Islamophobia and antisemitism\, by standing together in the face of any form of ethnic harassment. The JMSC engages in political action\, community education\, and cooperative efforts with Boston area Muslims and Jews to foster its goal of deepening Jewish-Muslim understanding and solidarity. Our work is based on our belief that human rights are universal and human communities and individuals share the same rights and responsibilities toward one another.  \nTo find out more about the meeting and get the zoom link\, please email jms@circleboston.org URL:https://circleboston.org/event/jewish-muslim-solidarity-committee-meeting-2/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:Jewish Musilim Solidarity Committee END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231219T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231219T203000 DTSTAMP:20231219T204323Z CREATED:20231215T134128Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231219T204323Z UID:10001157-1703012400-1703017800@circleboston.org SUMMARY:Jewish Muslim Solidarity Committee DESCRIPTION:Join us on Zoom! URL:https://circleboston.org/event/jewish-muslim-solidarity-committee/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:Jewish Musilim Solidarity Committee END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231129T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231129T203000 DTSTAMP:20231129T205826Z CREATED:20231121T151940Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231129T205826Z UID:10001055-1701284400-1701289800@circleboston.org SUMMARY:Jewish-Muslim Solidarity Committee Meeting DESCRIPTION:Join BWC’s Jewish-Muslim Solidarity committee as we renew our configuration and gather to determine next steps in strengthening our ties with our Muslim partners.\n\n\n\n\nRegister Here URL:https://circleboston.org/event/jewish-muslim-solidarity-committee-meeting/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:Jewish Musilim Solidarity Committee END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR