SAVE THE DATE! SUNDAY MAY 8, 2005, Jewish Voice for Peace "Olive Branch  Awards" & Fundraising Dinner
Featuring keynote speaker Judith Butler, comedian Charlie Varon, a Klezmer band and more, at the beautiful new Jewish Community Center of San Francisco, 5:30-9:30pm.
UC Berkeley professor Judith Butler has been called "one of the most probing, challenging and influential thinkers of our time." A pioneering feminist and queer theorist, Butler also speaks eloquently about Jewish identity and Zionism, and is an articulate and heartfelt Jewish critic of an inhumane Israeli occupation. In her London Review of Books article, "No, it's not anti-semitic," she charged Harvard University President Larry Summers with using the accusation of anti-Semitism to silence dissent about Israel.
Please mark this date on your 2005 calendars--this is going to be an exciting, informative and uplifting event, an opportunity both to build community and celebrate together, as well as to honor those who are working to end the occupation.
Tickets are $75 and will be available soon; we only have room for 300 people. Please consider organizing your own table of friends, family and colleagues--you'll be a table mensch! We're also looking for event sponsors: benefits include being listed on the invitation and program, preferential seating, and a special reception with Judith Butler. For more info., call Max Cohen at JVP at 510-465-1777. | 
