Sad News
We share with sadness the death of Allan Solomonow — a long-time Kehilla member and a many-decades activist especially in regard to peace and justice in Israel/Palestine — passed away this week on January 11.
There will be a memorial service for Allan at Kehilla this Sunday at 2pm.
Rabbi David and Hazzan Shulamit will officiate.
Besides being an indefatigable peace activist, Allan was beloved as husband, friend and father. Born in Omaha, NE, and raised in Los Angeles, he attended UC Berkeley, where he was a founding member of SLATE, the student-rights group. He opposed the Vietnam War, serving one year in federal prison for destroying his draft card. An iconic image of Allan confronting military police during a 1967 protest at the Pentagon was featured in media and later the PBS documentary The Vietnam War.
In New York in 1976, he founded the Middle East Peace Project, then moved to
San Francisco to join the staff of the American Friends Service committee in 1983, where he served for 27 years on Middle East issues. He also taught peace and conflict studies classes at UC Berkeley.
He and his wife, Ofelia Alayeto were together for more than 50 years, He is survived by Ofelia and his two sons, Greg and Seth, and a grandson, Joseph.
May Ofelia, Greg and Seth and all of Allen's family, be comforted in this time of transition.
