Retreat Schedule

Explore the early days of the Palestinian Nonviolent move­ment and its poten­tial today with Mubarak Awad, father of the Palestinian Nonviolent move­ment and Ronit Avni, who will share excerpts from the not-yet-released award-winning docu­men­tary Budrus. We“ll follow the presen­ta­tion with small group conver­sa­tions and a retreat-wide discussion.

After a deli­cious dinner, singing, and visiting, Rabbi Brent Spodek will share a taste of the Telling our Story track through a work­shop evoking our own expe­ri­ences and stories.

Rabbi Miriam Margles leads an inter­ac­tive work­shop based on the recon­cil­i­a­tion of Jacob and Esau. Come ready to use walk around and use your body!

Where is your commu­nity stuck in relating to Israel and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict? In this inter­ac­tive theatrical work­shop, facil­i­tator and soci­ol­o­gist of conflict trans­for­ma­tion Eyal Rabinovitch will draw from our collec­tive expe­ri­ence and wisdom to help us co-imagine construc­tive paths forward.

Forum Theatre is an exer­cise in which a group acts out a typical scene that embodies an entrenched social conflict; after enacting it once, they reenact it, inviting the audi­ence “spect-actors” to jump in and inter­vene until the stuck situ­a­tion plays itself out in a more liber­ating way.