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David Matz, Professor of Conflict Resolution, to speak at Temple Kol Tikvah, Sharon

David Matz will speak at Temple Kol Tikvah, Sharon on “Mediating the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: What’s the US Plan.” The event is sponsored by J Street Boston. Matz, who received his J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1963, has been a professor of conflict resolution since 1973 and served as Director of the Graduate Programs in Conflict Resolution at UMass Boston from 1986 to 2010. In 1989-90, Matz served as Fulbright Professor of Law at the Tel Aviv University. In Israel, he worked for the High Court of Justice and the Justice Ministry, helping them develop mediation techniques for the courts. He has also worked with Neve Shalom/Wahat al-Salaam, an Arab-Jewish village, and has written widely about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Matz is a founding partner of The Mediation Group in Brookline.

J Street – with over 180,000 supporters nationwide and a Rabbinic Cabinet of over 650 – is the political home for pro-Israel, pro-peace Americans to advocate for vigorous U.S. leadership to achieve a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and to broaden debate around Israel and the Middle East in national politics and the American Jewish community.

J Street Boston, one of the largest and most active of the almost 40 local J Street communities across the country, has a growing list of over 12,000 supporters and a Rabbinic Cabinet of some 40 rabbis, cantors, and rabbinical students. J Street Boston activists are involved in home district congressional advocacy, media work, synagogue and community outreach, educational engagement, and more.

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