November 9-10: Dr. Alice Rothchild in Metro-Detroit

Jewish Voice for Peace-Detroit is proud to present Dr. Alice Rothchild at several events in the Detroit area on Saturday, November 9 and Sunday, November 10, 2024, with support from Congregation T’Chiyah, First United Methodist Church of Ferndale, Birmingham Unitarian Church UUs for Justice in the Middle East and others.

Dr. Alice Rothchild has an extensive history as an advocate for social justice, women’s health, feminist empowerment, and human rights and peace, especially related to Palestine/Israel. She is active with Jewish Voice for Peace on the national level as a member of the JVP Health Advisory Council and serves on the boards of the Gaza Mental Health Foundation, Just World Educational, and We Are Not Numbers.

An author, filmmaker, poet, healthcare expert and community organizer, Rothchild has been awarded the 2024 Arab American Book Award for Old Enough to Know (Cune Press), Young Adult (YA) category. Finding Melody Sullivan won a Gold 2024 Moonbeam Children’s Book Award, also in the YA-Historical/Cultural category.

She has written three books on Israel/Palestine, contributed to numerous newspapers, magazines, webzines, anthologies and poetry journals. After years as a OBGYN physician and educator in the Boston area, she now lives in the Pacific Northwest.

Dr. Rothchild’s 2013 film Voices Across the Divide shares stories of Palestinians and Nakba survivors. She worked on the project with Jewish Voice for Peace Detroit, filming Detroit-area Nakba survivors in 2009.

Below is the schedule of appearances:

Saturday Morning, November 9
Rabbi Alana Alpert, moderator
10:30 a.m.—Bagels, Manakish, Coffee
11 a.m.—Talk, Reading, Book Signing
Congregation T’Chiyah
First United Methodist Church
(22331 Woodward Ave. Ferndale, MI 48220)

Saturday Evening, November 9
Arab American Book Awards
Ceremony Honoring Dr. Rothchild
5:30 p.m.—Reception
6:30 p.m.—Ceremony
8 p.m.—Book Signing
8:30 p.m.—Open Mic for Palestine
Arab American National Museum
(213624 Michigan Ave. Dearborn, MI 48126)
Register: arabamericanmuseum.org

Sunday, November 10
2 p.m.
—Gaza on Fire: The Health and Human Rights Consequences of the War
Dr. Nidal Jboor, moderator (Co-founder of Doctors Against Genocide)
Talk, Refreshments, Book Signing
Presented with BUC’s UUs for Justice in the Middle East
Birmingham Unitarian Church
(38651 Woodward Ave, Bloomfield Hills, MI 48304)

Register/RSVP: JewishVoicesinDetroit.eventbrite.com.

The events are free. Donations are welcome! Books will be available courtesy of Book Beat. For more information, email the Jewish Voice for Peace at jvpdetroit@gmail.com or call (313) 908-0454.


Alice Rothchild loves storytelling that pushes boundaries and engages us in unexpected conversations.

She has written three books on Israel/Palestine, contributed to anthologies and poetry journals, and directed a documentary film. She is a mentor for We Are Not Numbers, a program that supports young writers in Gaza and active in Jewish Voice for Peace. She received Boston Magazine’s Best of Boston’s Women Doctors Award, was named in Feminists Who Changed America 1963-1975, had her portrait painted for Robert Shetterly’s Americans Who Tell the Truth, and was named a Peace Pioneer by the American Jewish Peace Archive.

When she is not making good trouble, she loves hiking in the Pacific Northwest, playing with her grandchildren, tending to her boisterous garden, and stretching the boundaries of her cooking.

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