Jewish Reconstructionist Federation

Friday April 24 and Saturday April 25 at Mishkan Shalom, 4101 Freeland Avenue, Philadelphia

Yehezkel LandauMishkan Shalom in Philadelphia invites you to a special “One Book Mishkan” weekend program: Peacebuilding in the Holy Land with Scholar-in-Residence Yehezkel Landau, Faculty Associate in Interfaith Relations at Hartford Seminary and Co-Founder of Open House Center for Jewish-Arab Coexistence.

Professor Landau will discuss the weekend's theme with particular focus on the book The Lemon Tree: An Arab, A Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East by Sandy Tolan.

Friday Evening Services: April 24 at 7:30 pm

• Program immediately after: “Healing the Holy Land: Interreligious Peacebuilding in Israel & Palestine”
• Story of The Lemon Tree with discussion and questions
• Reception to follow

Saturday Morning Services: April 25 at 10:00 am

• Study Session will be part of the services: “Biblical Resources for Peacebuilding: Lessons from Genesis"
• Reception to follow

For more information call Lillian Sigal, Chair, at 610-642-2376 or contact the synagogue office at 215-508-0226.

This program is co-sponsored by the Library & Israel Committees of Mishkan Shalom & The Reconstructionist Rabbinical College.

Yehezkel Landau coordinates an interfaith training program at Hartford Seminary for Jews, Christians and Muslims called “Building Abrahamic Partnerships.” He directed the Oz v’Shalom-Netivot Shalom religious Zionist peace movement in Israel in the 1980s, and from 1991 to 2003. Co-founder and co-director of the Open House Center for Jewish-Arab Coexistence in Ramle, Israel, he lectures internationally on Jewish-Christian-Muslim relations and Middle East peace issues. He is co-editor of the book Voices from Jerusalem: Jews & Christians Reflect on the Holy Land (1992).