APN's small study tour will take place from February 5th to 12th, 2011, and will be led by Professor Mark Rosenblum, APN founder and Israel/Middle-East Expert (see bio at the end of this entry).
TOP ROW: Yossi Beilin, APN's Frank Fisher and Tzippi Livni, APN Tour Group in West Bank, Yariv Oppenheimer; MIDDLE: Letty Cottin Pogrebin & President Mahmoud Abbas, Hagit Ofran leading an APN group, APN dinner with young Peace Now activists; BOTTOM: Haim Ramon, Barrier Wall in Jerusalem, Tzali Reshef & Debra DeLee
You'll explore the "real" Israel -- the one behind the headlines which many tourists don't usually encounter.
Join us as we:
Deadline for a non-refundable deposit of $500 is October 15th. RESERVE YOUR SPOT NOW.
Go HERE to download the trip registration form.
Go HERE for a printable flyer to share with others.
For further details, contact Barbara Green, Study Tour coordinator, at 202-408-9898 or at israeltour@peacenow.org.
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PROFESSOR MARK ROSENBLUM is a historian at Queens College of the City University of New York where he directs the Center for Jewish Studies and the Center for Ethnic and Racial Tolerance. He founded Americans for Peace Now in 1981. Professor Rosenblum has been selected by the Forward Newspaper as one of the fifty most influential American Jews.
More Detailed Bio
Professor Mark Rosenblum is an award-winning historian at Queens College of the City University of New York where he is director of the Center for Jewish Studies and the Center for Ethnic and Racial Tolerance, as well as the Michael Harrington Center for Democratic Values and Social Change. An expert on the Middle East, he has combined academic research and policy analysis with direct involvement in Mid East conflict resolution since the 1980s.
Since the mid 1980s, Professor Rosenblum has been involved in numerous efforts to facilitate Israeli-Palestinian coexistence: through organizing and moderating six international conferences, hosting a roundtable discussion series televised in the U.S.," and by founding Americans for Peace Now and the Israeli-Palestinian Youth Dialogue program. Professor Rosenblum has been selected by the Forward Newspaper as one of the fifty most influential American Jews.
Rosenblum has spoken and written extensively as a Middle East political analyst, and his numerous radio and television appearances include: Larry King Live, MSNBC, CBS and NBC evening news, CNN and National Public Radio.
He has authored or edited numerous articles, papers, and highly regarded insider reports, in addition to several books, the two forthcoming being: Two Jerusalems, One Peace: Capitalizing On Reality, and From the Oslo Back Channel to the Al Aksa Intifada: The Elusive Peace.
Professor Rosenblum has designed and taught a new curriculum at Queens College, "America and the Middle East: A Clash of Civilizations or a Meeting of Minds?" This program aspires to create a "learning community" that integrates Arab, Islamic, Jewish and Christian undergraduate students with community leaders, high school teachers and outside experts from the Middle East. One of the things that differentiates Rosenblum's curriculum is that it requires each of the students to cross over the divide and "walk in the other side's shoes." This exercise is designed to examine the pains and claims of the side to which each student is least sympathetic and about which each is least knowledgeable. The program has garnered national attention and has been featured in the New York Times (article attached) and The Chronicle of Higher Education and on CBS-TV national news, National Public Radio and a host of other electronic and print media.
Rosenblum's educational project has earned him a Presidential Award for Excellence in Teaching at Queens College.
Professor Rosenblum also launched a series of cultural and educational programs, "Bridging Cultural Divides", included Islamic and Jewish music, "Common Chords;" Islamic and Jewish art, "The Art of the Possible;" Kosher and Halal cuisine, "Food for Thought;" and interfaith dialogues, "Shared Traditions."
Professor Rosenblum's public education project, "Insight on Incitement: Towards Israeli-Palestinian Coexistence" was selected by the Clinton Global Initiative as one of two initial grantees in the field of Religion, Conflict and Reconciliation.
In the fall of 2009 Professor Rosenblum became Director of the Center for Ethnic and Racial Tolerance, funded by a generous multi-year grant from the United States Department of Education.
Join us as we:
- See settlement construction activity in the West Bank with Hagit Ofran, Director of Peace Now's renowned Settlement Watch Project.
- Meet with representatives of Peace Now and other groups who demonstrate weekly against demolition of houses in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of East Jerusalem.
- Listen to people with diverse views--members of the government, academics,pollsters, politicians and pundits of all stripes who comment upon and actually shape events in Israel
- Visit Ramallah to meet representatives of the Palestinian Authority as well as hear from representatives of some groups critical of the PA
- See the separation barrier and experience its effect on Israelis and Palestinians in their everyday lives.
- Meet with activists who refuse to give up or surrender to the general malaise which says peace is not possible.
Deadline for a non-refundable deposit of $500 is October 15th. RESERVE YOUR SPOT NOW.
Go HERE to download the trip registration form.
Go HERE for a printable flyer to share with others.
For further details, contact Barbara Green, Study Tour coordinator, at 202-408-9898 or at israeltour@peacenow.org.
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PROFESSOR MARK ROSENBLUM is a historian at Queens College of the City University of New York where he directs the Center for Jewish Studies and the Center for Ethnic and Racial Tolerance. He founded Americans for Peace Now in 1981. Professor Rosenblum has been selected by the Forward Newspaper as one of the fifty most influential American Jews.
More Detailed Bio
Professor Mark Rosenblum is an award-winning historian at Queens College of the City University of New York where he is director of the Center for Jewish Studies and the Center for Ethnic and Racial Tolerance, as well as the Michael Harrington Center for Democratic Values and Social Change. An expert on the Middle East, he has combined academic research and policy analysis with direct involvement in Mid East conflict resolution since the 1980s.
Since the mid 1980s, Professor Rosenblum has been involved in numerous efforts to facilitate Israeli-Palestinian coexistence: through organizing and moderating six international conferences, hosting a roundtable discussion series televised in the U.S.," and by founding Americans for Peace Now and the Israeli-Palestinian Youth Dialogue program. Professor Rosenblum has been selected by the Forward Newspaper as one of the fifty most influential American Jews.
Rosenblum has spoken and written extensively as a Middle East political analyst, and his numerous radio and television appearances include: Larry King Live, MSNBC, CBS and NBC evening news, CNN and National Public Radio.
He has authored or edited numerous articles, papers, and highly regarded insider reports, in addition to several books, the two forthcoming being: Two Jerusalems, One Peace: Capitalizing On Reality, and From the Oslo Back Channel to the Al Aksa Intifada: The Elusive Peace.
Professor Rosenblum has designed and taught a new curriculum at Queens College, "America and the Middle East: A Clash of Civilizations or a Meeting of Minds?" This program aspires to create a "learning community" that integrates Arab, Islamic, Jewish and Christian undergraduate students with community leaders, high school teachers and outside experts from the Middle East. One of the things that differentiates Rosenblum's curriculum is that it requires each of the students to cross over the divide and "walk in the other side's shoes." This exercise is designed to examine the pains and claims of the side to which each student is least sympathetic and about which each is least knowledgeable. The program has garnered national attention and has been featured in the New York Times (article attached) and The Chronicle of Higher Education and on CBS-TV national news, National Public Radio and a host of other electronic and print media.
Rosenblum's educational project has earned him a Presidential Award for Excellence in Teaching at Queens College.
Professor Rosenblum also launched a series of cultural and educational programs, "Bridging Cultural Divides", included Islamic and Jewish music, "Common Chords;" Islamic and Jewish art, "The Art of the Possible;" Kosher and Halal cuisine, "Food for Thought;" and interfaith dialogues, "Shared Traditions."
Professor Rosenblum's public education project, "Insight on Incitement: Towards Israeli-Palestinian Coexistence" was selected by the Clinton Global Initiative as one of two initial grantees in the field of Religion, Conflict and Reconciliation.
In the fall of 2009 Professor Rosenblum became Director of the Center for Ethnic and Racial Tolerance, funded by a generous multi-year grant from the United States Department of Education.
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