Jewish writer to speak on Israel/Palestine on Monday in Grand Rapids

The local group Healing Children of Conflict is hosting an open meeting for people who are interested in hearing the perspective of a Jewish writer/activist who will talk about the Israeli/Palestinian conflict.

Mark Braverman, noted author of Fatal Embrace: Christians, Jews, and the Search for Peace in the Holy Land and co-founder of Friends of Tent of Nations North America, will be speaking this Monday at the Christian Reformed Church headquarters in Grand Rapids.

Mark Braverman is a Jewish American with deep family roots in Israel/Palestine — his grandfather, a fifth generation Palestinian Jew, was born in Jerusalem and emigrated to the U.S. as a young man. Growing up in the United States, Braverman was reared in the Jewish tradition, studying Bible, Hebrew literature, and Jewish history. Trained in clinical psychology and crisis management, Mark worked with groups and individuals undergoing traumatic stress.

He now devotes himself full time to the work for a just peace in the Holy Land. Traveling to the Holy Land in 2006, he was transformed by witnessing the occupation of Palestine and by encounters with peace activists and civil society leaders from the Muslim, Christian and Jewish communities.

He has written and spoken on the role of religious beliefs in the current discourse in the United States and has worked with Christian denominations and ecumenical bodies on education and activism for a just resolution of the Israel-Palestine conflict. Mark serves on the advisory board of Friends of Sabeel North American and on the Board of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions-USA. He is also a charter member of American Jews for a Just Peace and has recently been appointed Consultant for Evangelicals for Middle East Understanding. Find out more at www.markbraverman.org.

Monday, March 21

2:00 PM

CRC Headquarters building

2850 Kalamazoo SE, Grand Rapids