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“Hope,
Healing, and the Struggle for Justice in Israel and Palestine” Topic of
Community Brown Bag Lunch at Viterbo May 7

LA CROSSE, Wis. – Mark Braverman will
present “Hope, Healing, and the Struggle for Justice in Israel and Palestine”
at a community “brown bag” lunch Wednesday, May 7 at noon on the Viterbo campus
in the Reinhart Center Board Room.

Braverman
is a Jewish American with deep family roots in the Holy Land. As a young man, his
grandfather, a fifth generation Palestinian Jew, was born in Jerusalem and emigrated
to the U.S. Trained as a clinical psychologist, much of his professional career
has been dedicated to working with groups and individuals undergoing traumatic
stress. He now speaks about the crisis in the Middle East and in particular the
Israel-Palestinian issue and the spiritual and psychological issues that define
the conflict.

Audience
members attending the brown bag are welcome to
bring their own lunch or purchase a boxed lunch for $5.

During
his visit to La Crosse, Braverman is will also present a public lecture at 7
p.m. at UW-L Crosse in the Cartwright Center.

His
appearance is sponsored by the La Crosse Area Synod (ELCA); D.B. Reinhart
Institute for Ethics in Leadership, the UW-L departments of history, political
science, sociology/archaeology, philosophy and international studies, the
Islamic Center of Winona and La Crosse, the La Crosse Interfaith Justice and
Peace Network, and the UW-L Office of International Education.