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Dear friends, On Sunday, December 30 at 3:00 PM the Philadelphia Episcopal Cathedral will host Watch Night for Racial Justice – An Evening of Jazz at the Cathedral, a concert benefiting POWER. The line-up of jazz, gospel, and spiritual artists will include the Intermezzo Choir under director Carrie Lessene, the Philadelphia Community Mass Choir directed …

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Join us Sunday night, Dec. 16 to meet AFSC’s Palestine and Israel team and to hear about their work for peace and justice in Palestine and Israel. Please join us for this fundraising event: Dec. 16, 5 p.m.-7:30 p.m.Friends Center (1501 Cherry St. Philadelphia, PA) RSVP TODAY You’ll meet: Staff members Ali Abdel Bari and …

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From The Conversation: [Ahed Tamimi’s] story is unlikely to circulate in the same elevated spaces granted to Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani girl who survived a brutal attack on her school by the Taliban, even though both Ahed and Malala are fighting for similar rights and freedoms. Both are young women facing down brutal military repression …

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Local photographer, Joe Piette, supplies us with photos of rally for Professor Marc Lamont Hill.

To:  Christian-Jewish Allies, Re: Support for Professor Marc Lamont Hill Using our group protocol of consultation with a Quick Response Team, the following letter went out today to Patrick O’Connor, Chair of the Board of Temple University and Richard Englert, President of Temple University: We are Christians, Jews, and allies committed to peace with justice in …

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December 16th from 5:00 to 7:30 pm, The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) will be holding a fundraising event for Palestine at 1501 Cherry St. Philadelphia. RSVP to join us on December 16. Hi All,  I hope that you are well.  As I think you all know, AFSC is working with Pendle Hill to organize …

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