Dr. Alice Rothchild will speak on “Broken Promises, Broken Dreams, Stories of Jewish and Palestinian Trauma and Resilience” on Tuesday, March 8, 2011, 7:30 PM at the United Church in Walpole. Alice Rothchild is a Boston based physician, activist and writer who has worked for many years on public health and human rights issues in Israel and the Occupied Territories.Having just returned from a January 2011 trip to Israel/Palestine, Dr. Rothchild will share her latest experiences and insights on the region. She will also discuss her book, “Broken Promises, Broken Dreams.” This account of seven visits to Israel is based on hundreds of taped interviews with both Israelis and Palestinians. In her book, Dr. Rothchild grapples with the reality of life in Israel, the complexity of Jewish Israeli attitudes, and the hardship of Palestinians living in the West Bank and Gaza.
Dr. Rothchild cofounded and co-chairs American Jews for a Just Peace Boston and co-organized the AJJP Health and Human Rights Project. An obstetrician-gynecologist who has worked in the health care reform and women’s movements for many years, Dr. Rothchild was a contributor to the first “Our Bodies, Ourselves.” Medical Director of the Women’s Community Health Center in Cambridge, Mass. from 1977-1979 and co-founder of Urban Woman and Child Health, Inc., Dr. Rothchild is active in a number of social justice organizations.
Rothchild’s talk is being sponsored by the Walpole Peace and Justice Group. People may park in the parking lot to the right of the church, using the driveway after the Center for Community Counseling and Education house, and enter the church by the side door (directions here).
