Peace Work

Learning Love in Difficult Places

Written on July 4, 2010 by Dawn Cherie Ezrahi · Leave a Comment 

It’s been almost 2 weeks since I’ve come back  from Poland.  I took part in the Zen peacemakers Bearing witness retreat in Auschwitz .
We started in Krakow with a trip to Jewish quarter  kazimierz  and the area which still holds a bit of the old feel from what we imagine. Close by is Shindler’s factory where they were [...]

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Inter-religious Bearing Witness Retreat in Auschwitz

Written on June 3, 2010 by Dawn Cherie Ezrahi · Leave a Comment 

Around the ashes pond. retreat 2003
Rabbi Ohad is among the clergy officiating this year at the Zen Peacemakers  Bearing Witness retreat in Auschwitz,Poland, with Roshi Bernie Glassman, along with religious leaders from all faiths.    This will be Ohad’s 7th year  joining  this very powerful retreat to bear witness to the pain and atrocities that [...]

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Being the Peace: An Israeli-Iranian meeting!

Written on June 22, 2009 by Rabbi Ohad Ezrahi · Leave a Comment 

Being The Peace
At a Rainbow Gathering in Turkey, Israelis and Iranians bond.
Rabbi Ohad EZRAHI (TRANSLATED FROM HEBREW AND PUBLISHED BY ESSENCE OF LIFE)
One Nation
In the high mountains of Turkey, there was a gathering that some would call miraculous and unbelievable, but seemed for everyone that was there so natural, as if it couldn’t have been [...]

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