Featured Prayer Leaders:

Sheikh Muhammad Salah Isaid, Father Issa Thaljieh, Rabbi David Rosen, Rabbi Ariella Graetz Bartuv, and Sheikh Mowafaq Tareef

Hosted by David Less & Sheikh Ghassan Manasra

Wednesday May 13th, 11am EDT, 4pm London, 6pm Israel Time
+ Wednesday May 27th

 The Holy Land is no stranger to all manner of suffering. In response to this particularly difficult  time, the Abrahamic Reunion will be drawing together—virtually—those women and men who have dedicated their lives to creating peace and understanding in their homeland.

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. Many people think there will never be peace in the Holy Land, just as many believe we will never have peace throughout the world. But 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 30 minutes of prayer.

These meetings will begin at 6:00 pm in the Holy Land, which is 4 pm in London, and 11 am EDT.

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

 

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Topic: Unity Prayer for the Holy Land
Time: Apr 16, 2020 11:00 AM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
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Apr 29, 2020 11:00 AM
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Bios

Rabbi David Rosen

Rabbi David Rosen is the former Chief Rabbi of Ireland. He is International Director of Interreligious Affairs for the AJC (American Jewish Committee), and is a member of the Chief Rabbinate of Israel’s Committee for Interreligious Dialogue.

He is an International President of the World Conference on Religion and Peace (www.religionsforpeace.org), Honorary President of the International Council of Christians and Jews(www.iccj.org), and the only Jewish member of the Board of Directors of the King Abdullah International Center for Interreligious and Intercultural Dialogue (www.kaiciid.org) , established in 2012 by the King of Saudi Arabia together with the governments of Austria and Spain with the support of the Holy See.

In 2005, Rabbi Rosen received a knighthood from the Pope in recognition of his contribution to promoting Catholic-Jewish reconciliation and in 2010 he was awarded a CBE (Commander of the British Empire) by Queen Elizabeth II. In 2016 He was awarded the Archbishop of Canterbury’s Hubert Walter Award for Reconciliation and Interfaith Cooperation.

Sheikh Muhammad Salah Isaid

Sheikh Isaid is the Mufti of the Palestinian Security Forces. He holds an MA in Interpretation from the University of Khartoum, is a member of the Palestinian Higher Fatwa Council, and a member of the Supreme National Committee to Combat Violence Against Women.    He has previously participated in several Abrahamic Reunion events, including AR Palestine’s Second Annual Interfaith Iftar in Jericho (July 2019) and the Interfaith March for Peace & Justice in Bethlehem (October 2019).

Father Issa Thaljieh

Father Issa is a Prist of the Greek Orthodox Parish in Bethlehem and Vice President of the Orthodox Association in Bethlehem. He is known as a model of love, peace, and generosity in Palestine in general, and Bethlehem in particular, and has participated in multiple Abrahamic Reunion Palestine events including “Religions Under Fire” in Bethlehem last June of 2019, and both AR Palestine Interfaith Christmas Celebrations (2018, 2019 in Bethlehem).

 

Rabbi Ariella Graetz Bartuv

Rabbi Ariella Graetz Bartuv was ordained at the Hebrew Union College in Jerusalem, in the Israeli rabbinical program.

Rabbi Ariella leads the Emmet VeShalom Reform congregation in Nahariya, bringing alternative liberal Judaism to Israel’s periphery, and she is involved with other rabbinical, educational and communal projects in conjunction with her leadership – serving hundreds of families in the area each year.

Rabbi Ariella was born in Israel, she is married to Menashe and has 3 children (son 23, son 20, and daughter 15). She is the daughter of a Conservative rabbi; her parents are some of the founders of Conservative Judaism in Israel. Rabbi Ariella defines herself as an Israeli product of liberal Judaism. Rabbi Ariella strives for connections among Jews and Arabs in Israel and in the galilee in particular.

Sheikh Mowafaq Tarif

Shaykh Mowafaq Tarīf is the current spiritual leader of the Druze community in Israel. Tarif was born in 1963 in the city of Julis. Since 1753, his family has been leading the Druze community in Mandatory Palestine and then Israel. In 1993, he inherited the position of spiritual leader from his grandfather, Shaykh Amin Tarif.

 

David Less

Abrahamic Reunion US Board Chair

Sheikh Ghassan Manasra

Abrahamic Reunion International Director