Join the Abrahamic Reunion for an hour with courageous peacebuilders and spiritual luminaries from Palestine and Israel, who will share with us prayers, inspiration, and reflections on the theme of giving and generosity.
In response to this particularly difficult time, the Abrahamic Reunion will be drawing together—virtually—those women and men of the Holy Land who have dedicated their lives to creating peace and understanding.
Even when group prayer is virtual, people who pray together have a powerful effect. This is true not only for Israel and Palestine, but throughout the world. Communal prayer and meditation, with a focus on the common good, can create the shift in consciousness that we all seek.
At each Online Unity Prayer for the Holy Land, religious leaders and holy peacemakers in Israel and Palestine will join together on zoom and lead 45 minutes of prayer.
2021 Unity Prayer Schedule:
- March 25th – Love
- May 27th – Protection
- July 29th – Light
- September 30th – Giving
- November 18th – Forgiveness
- December 31st – New Beginning
David Less, AR Board Chairman, and Sheikh Ghassan Manasra, AR International Director, will virtually host on-site Muslim, Jewish, Christian, and Druze prayer leaders as well as one spiritual musician in the Holy Land.
Please join us. The addition of your prayer energy will help build the change we all seek.
Peace, Salaam, Shalom
Registration / RSVP
Please RSVP at the link above with your name, email, location, religious/spiritual identification.
Bios
Siham Halabi
Siham Halabi is a Druze leader and the Director of the Women’s Program and Adult Education at the Daliat Al Carmel Community Center providing courses in women’s economic empowerment, home management, drivers education, Hebrew and Arabic languages, social activism, and interfaith understanding. She is a Coordinator of the TRUST WIN, a member of the Women’s Parliament and various orgaizations for dialogue and understanding between the cultures, and for the advancement of women and social issues affecting women. She is a Druze spokeswoman representing Druze women in national forums.
Sheikha Umm Bra’a Najah Kabaha
Sheikha Najah is a leader in the Muslim community who lives in the city of Nazareth, the largest Arab city in Israel. She has worked for interfaith understanding and dialogue through the Qadiri Tariqat as-Salaam, the Lights of Peace Society, and the Abrahamic Reunion for many years. She also teaches children and early childhood.
Father Firas Diab
Palestinian Pastor of St. George’s Greek Melkite Church
Father Firas Diab is the Pastor of St. George Melkite Greek Catholic Church in Zababdeh, a Palestinian village in the northern West Bank, and is the grandson of St George’s previous pastor. He has degrees in Philosophy and Theology, and is often actively building connections either with Western Churches or for solidarity within the Palestinian nation. He is a very active peacemaker with Abrahamic Reunion and has been part of many events including as a leader in the Multifaith Peace March in Bethlehem in 2019.
Zeynab Manasra Khatib
AR Youth Leader
Zeynab is an Abrahamic Reunion Youth Leader from Nazareth, Israel. She is Muslim and grew up steeped in a culture of peacemaking, multi-faith dialogue, and bridge-building across cultures, identities, and religions, participating in the programs of her father Sheikh Ghassan Manasra and learning the art of facilitation from him from an early age. She has been part of programs through her High School, The Sulha Project, Jerusalem Peacemakers, Lights of Peace Society of Nazareth, Abrahamic Reunion, and other multifaith projects for the last ten years. She is passionate about working with other youth and young adults, and has traveled with the AR to speak at events and presentations in the UK, Germany, Israel, and the US.
Rabbi David Zaslow
Serves as Rabbi of Havurah Shir Hadash in Ashland, Oregon, where he has hosted Sheikh Ghassan Manasra of the Abrahamic Reunion. Rabbi David Zaslow was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1947. He was ordained in 1995 by Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi under the supervision and mentorship of Rabbi Aryeh Hirschfield. In the summer of 1996 he became spiritual leader of the Havurah, which was founded in June 1985. In 2003 he completed his term as a Spiritual Advisor to ALEPH, the umbrella organization of the Jewish Renewal movement. He is a longstanding interfaith advocate and leader.
Sheikh Ghassan Manasra
Abrahamic Reunion International Director
Sheikh Ghassan Manasra was one of the Abrahamic Reunion’s Co-Coordinators in the Holy Land until moving to the US in 2015, and has been an active contributing Peacemaker with the AR for more than a decade. He is an ordained Sheikh in the Qadiri Sufi Order in the Holy Land, and son of Sheikh Abdel Salaam Manasra – head of the Qadiri Sufi Order in the Holy Land. He is the founder of Anwar-Il-Salaam, the Lights of Peace Center in Nazareth, and is Director, Islamic Cultural Center in Nazareth. Ghassan is an expert and lectures in Islam, Islamic history, Sufism, and contemporary Muslim issues in the Middle East, Europe, and the USA. Ghassan@abrahamicreunion.org
David Less
Abrahamic Reunion US Board Chair
David Less is a global teacher of meditation and interfaith dialog of over forty years. For over a decade he was the Global Dean of the Universal Worship, an organization in over thirty countries,that honors the commonality in all religions and appreciates and respects the differences. He started promoting understanding rather than blame as a path to peace in the Holy Land in 2000 and was one of the founders of the Abrahamic Reunion shortly thereafter. To contact, reach out to info@abrahamicreunion.org
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