If you’ve read this blog for any length of time then you know I like to spotlight important and courageous coexistence efforts in Israel/Palestine. Here’s another I recommend adding to your list of orgs to support: the Sulha Peace Project.
Founded by an Israeli, Gabriel Meyer, and a Palestinian, Elias Jabbour, Sulha sponsors a variety of [...]
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Sulha Peace Project
Posted in Coexistence, Israel, Nonviolence, Orgs You Should Support, Palestine, Peace, Religion on July 3, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Shomer Shalom – A Jewish Path of Nonviolence
Posted in Iran, Judaism, Nonviolence, Orgs You Should Support, Peace, Religion, War on May 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’m proud to say that the Founder’s Gathering of Shomer Shalom – a new organization promoting a Jewish path of nonviolence – will take place this weekend at JRC from May 15-18. This important new effort was created by Rabbi Lynn Gottlieb (above), who has been “walking the peace walk” Jewishly for decades now. Shomer [...]
Trash is Cash
Posted in Environmentalism, Global Activism, Orgs You Should Support, Poverty, Water on April 22, 2008 | 1 Comment »
If you’re looking for a meaningful way to celebrate Earth Day 2008, here’s an inspiring project worthy of your support. Taka ni Pato (”Trash is Cash”) is an income-generating, solid waste management and recycling project that removes more than 2000 tons of trash each year from a slum in Kenya.
More than 700,000 people live in [...]
Stop the Clash of Civilizations
Posted in Environmentalism, Global Activism, Human Rights, Orgs You Should Support, Peace, Politics on March 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I was so pleased to read that that brilliant “Stop the Clash of Civilizations” (above) has just won “Best Political Video” in this year’s YouTube awards. (It says a great deal that a clip about global activism can win this award during an American election year.)
“Stop the Clash” is an impressive [...]
Galilee Encounter
Posted in Coexistence, Global Activism, Interfaith, Israel, Orgs You Should Support, Palestine, Peace, Religion on February 17, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Yet another coexistence effort worth supporting is the Galilee Encounter Community – an interfaith exchange project that brings together students, educators and parents from Israeli schools in the Jewish town of Karmiel and the Arab village of Majd el-Krum.
This group started as a result of the deterioration of the relations between the two [...]
Cyclone Sidr Relief
Posted in Current Events, Global Activism, International Aid, Orgs You Should Support, Tzedakah on November 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
From today’s New York Times:
The number of people left dead after the powerful cyclone that swept through Bangladesh on Thursday rose to more than 3,100 yesterday, the government said. The United Nations estimated that a million people had been left homeless, many of them in remote areas without predictable food supplies.
The Bangladesh Red Crescent Society [...]
Global Giving
Posted in Global Activism, Orgs You Should Support, Tzedakah on November 20, 2007 | 3 Comments »
If you are in need of sources for holiday gift giving or end-of-the year tzedakah, I’m recommending GlobalGiving- a terrific resource that describes itself as the eBay of online giving. Their concept is brilliant in its simplicity: over 450 pre-screened worldwide grassroots charity projects post their causes on their website. Givers [...]
Bereaved Families for Peace
Posted in Coexistence, Israel, Nonviolence, Orgs You Should Support, Palestine, Peace on August 27, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Another important co-existence org I recommend to your support list is The Parent’s Circle – Families Forum – a consortium founded by bereaved Israelis and Palestinians who have lost loved ones to violence. I was pleased to see the Parent’s Circle featured in this recent BBC report that spotlighted their Israeli-Palestinian phone-call network, “Hello, Shalom, [...]
Open House, Open Heart
Posted in Coexistence, Interfaith, Israel, Orgs You Should Support, Palestine, Peace, Politics/Middle East, Zionism on August 13, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Our second to last day in Israel has been one of our most memorable: a visit to the Open House in Ramle and a conversation with its co-founder, Dalia Landau. (That’s me on the left, above, next to Dalia, JRC member Maxine Topper, and Open House’s Administrative Director, Khader Al-Kalak).
You may know Dalia’s story from [...]
Coexistence in Chicago
Posted in Coexistence, Interfaith, Israel, Orgs You Should Support, Peace, Religion on July 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Today marks the end of an extraordinary two weeks of coexistence, conflict resolution and peacemaking. I’m referring to Hands of Peace – a Chicago-based organization that brings Jewish-Israeli, Palestinian-Israeli, and West Bank Palestinian High School age youngsters together to engage in coexistence work with one another and with Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Americans.
The program [...]
