This week’s call to action includes the following events and activities. (All are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted.) Albright talk part of UR series Former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright will be speaking at the University of Rochester on Thursday, October 24. As a diplomat, Albright has been a senior-level […]
Palestine
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Nazareth’s Bethlehem exhibit depicts every day (occupied) life
When Bshara Nassar moved from Bethlehem to the US in 2011, he didn’t expect to end up starting a museum. He was working on a graduate degree in Conflict Transformation at Eastern Mennonite University in Harrisonburg, Virginia, and by the end of 2014, he had plans in motion to create the Museum of the Palestinian People, […]
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Witness Palestine
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has raged for nearly four decades, and the issue is just divisive today as it was at the start. I’m not for a minute going to pretend that I understand all of the intricacies involved in the conflict, but it’s clear that each side has enough evidence of wrongdoing to keep the […]
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“The Gatekeepers”
In the Oscar-nominated documentary “The Gatekeepers,” a gripping recounting of the history of the long-standing Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Israeli filmmaker Dror Moreh has achieved a remarkable feat. Not only in creating a powerful, passionate, and clear-eyed examination of an exceedingly complex subject, but in miraculously convincing all six surviving former heads of Shin Bet, Israel’s secret […]
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“Planet of Snail”
“Planet of Snail” is the final presentation in the Dryden Theatre’s “Cinema Guild” series, which has screened a wide-ranging selection of recent movies from the foreign and independent film distributor, and it’s as sweet and life-affirming a film as you could ever wish to see. The South Korean documentary, from director Yi Seung-jin, offers a […]
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