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achel Havrelock, associate
professor at the University of
Illinois at Chicago, will speak
at Congregation Beth Shalom’s
annual Nelson Legacy event June
7-8.
Havrelock grew up in Farmington
Hills. She attended Congregation
Shaarey Tzedek and graduated from
Hillel Day School. She is the author
of River Jordan: The Mythology of a
Dividing Line (University of Chicago
Press, 2011). After writing about
how the conflicted borders of the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict formed
and congealed in Palestinian and
Israeli cultures for River Jordan, she
became invested in water sharing as
an approach to Middle East peace-
making.
Havrelock’s current book proj-
ect, Pipeline: How Oil Created the
Modern Middle East and How Water
Can Transform It, chronicles the role
of oil extraction and infrastructure
in the militarization of the Middle
East and suggests ways that regional
water management could transform
the landscape.
She conducted research in the
United Kingdom, supported by
a fellowship at the University of
Cambridge, and in the Middle East
on the College of Liberal Arts and
Sciences Dean’s Research Award.
During the 2014-15 academic
year, Havrelock was a fellow at the
University of Illinois at Chicago
Institute for the Humanities. She
received an alumni impact award
from the U.S. Department of State
Global Fellows Program in 2014.
Havrelock serves on the
International Advisory Committee
and works with the trilateral (Israeli,
Palestinian and Jordanian) organiza-
tion NGO Ecopeace to link commu-
nities supported by the same water-
shed. In 2013, she helped Ecopeace
launch the international Save the
Jordan campaign on the Jordanian
side of the Dead Sea.
Havrelock also addresses the
Great Lakes as a transborder water
system that is both abundant and
imperiled. She has been awarded
grants from the Mellon Foundation,
the McDougal Family Foundation
and the Mott Foundation to explore
the common challenges of interna-
tional transborder water systems.
The Rabbi David and Alicia
Nelson Legacy Event celebrates
Rabbi Nelson’s 50 years in the rab-
binate. The Nelson Legacy Fund pro-
vides educational and operational
support for the community, includ-
ing Beth Shalom.
The Nelson Legacy Event is co-
sponsored by Congregation Beth
Shalom, the Cohn-Haddow Center
for Judaic Studies at Wayne State
University, the Detroit Jewish News,
Fed/Ed of the Jewish Federation
of Metropolitan Detroit, Hillel Day
School and the Institute for Retired
Professionals (IRP).
Cost of the June 7 lecture, which
includes a dessert reception, is $22.
The cost of the June 8 Lunch and
Learn program is $20. Reservations
are essential for the luncheon.
Contact the Beth Shalom office at
(248) 547-7970 for details or reserva-
tions. •