On the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the founding of the state of Israel and of the Palestinian Nakba (Catastrophe), join with Muslims, Jews, Christians, and secularists in this inspiring and powerful call for peace and justice for both Palestinians and Israelis. PROGRAM   1:00 pm Sanctuary First United Church of Oak Park 848 Lake Street WALK   2:00 pm a one-mile route through downtown Oak Park in solidarity with the aspirations of Palestinians and Israelis for peace ADVOCACY BUFFET/POTLUCK  2:45 pm Centennial Hall First United Church of Oak Park 848 Lake Street SPECIAL GUESTS SANDY TOLAN is an award-winning journalist and author of the acclaimed book The Lemon Tree: An Arab, A Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East. The Lemon Tree relates the true story of two families—one Israeli and one Palestinian—linked by a single house. The Palestinian family flees the fighting in their home town of al-Ramla during the 1948 war; prevented from returning home, their temporary flight becomes permanent exile. A Jewish family survives terror and near death in Bulgaria; they arrive as refugees in the new Israeli state and are settled in the Palestinians’ home, abandoned only four months earlier. Twenty years later, the children of the two families, now grown, finally meet and forge over the following decades a difficult but profound bond. With them, the reader learns how one family’s security and happiness is built on another family’s devastation. The Lemon Tree illuminates a conflict that, 60 years after 1948, continues to roil the world. As a journalist, Tolan has reported from more than 30 countries. He has produced hundreds of documentaries for public radio and written for more than 40 newspapers and magazines. Tolan teaches at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California. MAZIN QUMSIYEH was born on the outskirts of Bethlehem and now splits his time between the US and Palestine. His most recent book is Sharing the Land of Canaan: Human Rights and the Israeli/Palestinian Struggle (Pluto). Qumsiyeh has served on the executive committees of numerous groups including Peace Action, the U.S. Campaign to End the Occupation, the Palestinian American Congress, and the Association for One Democratic State in Israel/Palestine. Qumsiyeh is widely known as a media activist and public educator who also regularly lectures on issues of human rights and international law. He is a former researcher and faculty member in cytogenetics at Duke and Yale Universities. RABBI LYNN GOTTLIEB is a cofounder of the Muslim Jewish Peace Walk and and currently performs Play With Borders: Palestine and Israel in narrative dialogue. Gottlieb leads delegations to the Middle East (including, most recently, Iran) through the auspices of the Fellowship of Reconciliation. Gottlieb and other Jewish religious leaders have recently established Shomer Shalom, a network whose members are committed to living a nonviolent Jewish life, participating in nonviolence organizations as Jews and in Jewish organizations as practitioners of nonviolence. Gottlieb is on the advisory board of Jewish Voice for Peace.