Peacebuilding with the Samaritans

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Join us for an hour with Dr. Jacob Cohen, President of the Samaritan Legends Association, to talk about the peacebuilding efforts that the Abrahamic Reunion and the Samaritans community have been engaging in lately.

In this meeting we will:

Discuss the impact of The Samaritan Conference for our peacebuilding efforts,

Learn about the Samaritan Community, one of the smallest ethno-religious groups in the world (only 850 members presently),

Hear about the similarities and differences with Judaism (they speak an ancient form of Hebrew),

Understand better their complex place in the cultural topography of the Holy Land (they live in the West Bank, are often confused with Jews, and largely consider themselves Palestinians),

Show footage and photos from the 2021 Samaritans Conference in Nablus which the Abrahamic Reunion and the Samaritan Legends Association sponsored and organized, with support from the Topol Family Foundation,

Feature discussion between Dr. Cohen and Sheikh Ghassan Manasra, and possibly other Abrahamic Reunion peacebuilders and leaders, and

Take Live Q & A.

2021 Samaritan Conference Report:

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• Text Version Click Here

Dr. Jacob Cohen

Samaritan Spokesman and Leader from Mt. Grizim, Dr. Cohen is the West Bank Founder of the Samaritan Legend Association, which facilitates workshops and lectures around the world teaching about the Samaritan community and using it as an example of coexistence and peace. He founded the Samaritan Youth Club. Jacob is the speaker on behalf of his father, The High Priest of the Samaritan community, and is considered a representative of the community outside the country. He has been featured in Forbes magazine as the manager of Har Bracha Tahini, and been a speaker at the Parliament of the World’s Religions and numerous Abrahamic Reunion peacebuilding events.

Sheikh Ghassan Manasra

Sheikh Ghassan Manasra is the Abrahamic Reunion’s International Director, and has worked in interfaith peacemaking in the Holy Land, and around the world, for more than 38 years.  He is a second-generation peacemaker following in the footsteps of his father, the scholar and Sufi Sheikh, Abdelsalam Manasra.

He is an ordained Sheikh in the Qadiri Sufi Order of Peace in the Holy Land, the founder of Anwar-Il-Salaam, the Lights of Peace Center in Nazareth, and was a founder and the Director of the Islamic Cultural Center in Nazareth.

Ghassan is able to build bridges and re-connect peoples because he feels himself to be part of every people, and family with every human being. He looks forward to the time when all human beings will share in this feeling and live in peace together, one with the other, sharing in the beauty of the diversity of this world.