Rabbi Alissa Wise - Top Ten List on Faith Communities and BDS

Filmed on September 13, 2012 in Chicago, IL

"Faith Communities and Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions: What's it all About?"

Keynote Speech by Rabbi Alissa Wise

Rabbi Alissa Wise has been an activist for justice in Israel/Palestine for over a decade in New York City with Jews Against the Occupation, in the West Bank with the International Women's Peace Service, and most recently as the founding co-chair of the Jewish Voice for Peace Rabbinical Council. She is also the national chair of the "We Divest" campaign. As a rabbinical student, Alissa was the Educational Director for Jews for Racial and Economic Justice in New York City. Alissa graduated from the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College in Philadelphia in 2009.

For more information on the We Divest Campaign visit wedivest.org

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