Tickets will be posted on JewishVoicesinDetroit.eventbrite.com

Dr. Alice Rothchild

for conversation, book signing and refreshments.

RSVP: JewishVoicesinDetroit.eventbrite.com

Topics may include: Destruction of Healthcare & Human Rights in Gaza, Physical & Psychological Trauma to Children & Families, Teaching Our Children about Palestine, Ending the Genocide, and more.

Dr. Alice Rothchild has an extensive history as a leader, advocate for social justice, women’s health and Feminist empowerment, and human rights, especially related to Palestine/Israel. She is active with Jewish Voice for Peace on the national level as a member of the JVP Health Advisory Council and serves on the boards of the Gaza Mental Health Foundation, Just World Educational, and We Are Not Numbers.

Can’t attend? The event will livestreamed on ZOOM on Sunday at 2 pm

https://zoom.us/j/95391540179?pwd=xVYY769L0GbeUoJcku60i6Z8Gqzq1B.1
Meeting ID: 953 9154 0179
Passcode: 370274
Dial-in: (305) 224 1968

SATURDAY, November 9 • 11 am

Rabbi Alana Alpert, moderator

10:30 am: Bagels, Manakish & coffee

11 am: Talk, reading & book signing

Congregation T’Chiyah at the

First United Methodist Church
22331 Woodward Ave. Ferndale, MI

Saturday, November 10 • 2 pm

Gaza on Fire: Health & Human Rights Consequences of the Genocide

Dr. Nidal Jboor, moderator, Co-founder Doctors Against Genocide

Talk, refreshments & book signing

Presented with BUC’s

UUs for Justice in the Middle East

Birmingham Unitarian Church

38651 Woodward Ave, Bloomfield Hills, MI

Also, please join JVP-Detroit

DEARBORN: Saturday evening, Nov. 9

RESERVE SPACE ON ARABAMERICANMUSEUM.ORG WEBSITE

Arab American Book Awards Ceremony Honoring Dr. Rothchild

5:30 pm–Reception 6:30 pm–Ceremony • 8 pm – Book Signing

8:30 pm – Open Mic for Palestine

Arab American National Museum

213624 Michigan Ave. Dearborn, MI

Register: arabamericanmuseum.org/event/ 2024-arab-american-book-awards-ceremony

An author, filmmaker, poet, healthcare expert and community organizer, Rothchlld has been awarded the 2024 Arab American Book Award for Old Enough to Know (Cune Press), Young Adult (YA) category. Finding Melody Sullivan won a Gold 2024 Moonbeam Children’s Book Award, also in the YA-Historical/Cultural category. She is being honored on Saturday night at the Arab American Museum (see link above to attend).

She has written three books on Israel/Palestine, contributed to numerous newspapers, magazines, webzines, anthologies and poetry journals. After years as a OBGYN physician and educator in the Boston area, she now lives in the Pacific Northwest.

Dr. Rothchild’s 2013 film Voices Across the Divide shares stories of Palestinians and Nakba survivors. She worked on the project with Jewish Voice for Peace Detroit, filming Detroit-area Nakba survivors in 2009. We highly recommend that you watch the documentary.

Thank you to Book Beat for providing Rothchild’s youth and adult books for sale.

march to Children’s Hospital to divest from genocide

Sunday NOV 10 @ 10am 📢 📍

3535 Cass Ave, Detroit

(parking and main entry back of building- driveway on Brainard)

😷masks required indoors (some provided but please bring your own if possible)

♿️ venue is wheelchair accessible with no steps, a safety team will support for the march route

Join us as we commemorate the children’s press conference at Al Shifa Hospital that took place in Gaza on November 7, 2023. We call on educators, parents, caregivers, young adults, and children of all ages to come together for this day in solidarity with the children of Palestine who resist the Zionist state’s genocide. We are responding to Palestinian poet Mosab Abu Toha’s call for children’s actions.

Organized by Kids March Detroit

co-sponsors: @uspcn @palestinianfeministcollective".

https://www.instagram.com/p/DB9MH1tNRcd/?igsh=MWZhc3F3c3R2eWYwdw==

Community Supper for Palestine

Sunday NOV 10 @ 6-8 pm

St. Peter’s Episcopal Church

1950 Trumbull, Detroit, MI 48216

RSVP/Tickets: Click here

Join St. Peter’s Episcopal Church and First Unitarian Universalist Church of Detroit for an evening of education, community-building, and fundraising for Palestinian solidarity.

A vegetarian dinner will be provided (with gluten-free and vegan options available).

Space is limited; please register ahead of time on Eventbrite here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/community-supper-for-palestine-tickets-1050675628087

All funds raised through Eventbrite sales will be sent to Christians for a Free Palestine.
We hope to see you there!

(313) 757-2985 office

www.stpetersdetroit.com

Monday, November 11 • 7 pm

Wayne State University Bernath Auditorium in the Adamany Undergraduate Library

5155 Gullen Mall, Detroit, MI 48202

Support the students at Wayne State University and JVP WSU

Register in advance here

Where Olive Trees Weep (2024), the sixth film in the Voices of Palestine Film Series, will be screened at 7 pm on Monday, November 11, in Bernath Auditorium in the Adamany Undergraduate Library on the campus of Wayne State University.

The film offers a searing window into the struggles and resilience of the Palestinian people under Israeli occupation. It explores themes of loss, trauma, and the quest for justice. The film will be followed by brief comments from discussants Dr. Layla Saatchi of Wayne State’s Reid Honors College; and Laila Balboun, RN , Jews and Allies; as well as dialogue with the audience.

This event is free and open to the public. The film series continues to be a source of connection, education, and solidarity building. The conversation and action that these films and discussions generate are crucial.