A heart-centered talk and musical encounter led by AdirChai Haberman-Browns, to help us grapple with the human experience and emotion of the Israel-Gaza war. The immense loss and destruction impacting both Israelis and Palestinians is challenging to comprehend, especially for liberal Jews in the diaspora. But this isn’t a talk about politics, policy, or history. Rather, it is an opportunity to be together in the complexity, sorrow, and challenge, expressing our grief, anger, care, guilt, shame, or other feelings that have come up during the past months.
AdirChai’s experience as a combat reservist is one that we haven’t had access to, and we look forward to hearing his voice and holding space for each other’s as well.
Reb Irwin will be on hand to help hold the space.
AdirChai Haberman-Browns is a spiritual entrepreneur, musician, founder and leader of the Kula Liba community in Jerusalem. After serving in an elite commando unit in the 2014 Gaza operation, he is now a reservist in the current Israel-Hamas war, operating in central Gaza for a month and a half and now stationed on Israel’s northern border.
AdirChai lived in Boston for 10 years as a child and has been involved with American Jewish communities for the past 9 years, leading services during the High Holidays, Shabbatot and Chaggim. As he often works to bridge the gap between Israel and the diaspora, he now sees the importance of sharing his unique perspective as both a liberal Jew and Israeli soldier in combat to help make sense of this difficult reality.