Abrahamic Reunion

Religious Perspectives on Death and Dying: Panel and Text Study
2017-11-14 19:00 - 21:00 UTC
Dear Friends,
Please join the AR for an evening of peace-building, conversation, sharing, and contemplation of “Religious Perspectives on Death & Dying” in the Abrahamic faiths.
7-9pm at Unity of Sarasota
3023 Proctor Road, Sarasota FL, 34231
Please invite friends, and bring them for this panel and discussion. We’re looking forward to being together again as an Abrahamic family, celebrating the connection.
We will also have updates about the work of the Abrahamic Reunion to make peace in the Holy Land.
Peace, Salaam, Shalom

PS: The AR will bring a group of international peace-builders to support a week of peace events called “Healing the Heart of the Holy Land” this coming April 2018 – dates TBA soon. Please inquire for information.

Interfaith Iftar Peace Dinner - Sarasota, FL
2017-06-15 18:00 - 21:00 UTC
Every year the Abrahamic Reunion gathers religious, community, and political leaders, peacemakers, and laypeople from across Israel and Palestine for a Ramadan Iftar dinner dedicated to celebrating human oneness.
In support of our brothers and sisters gathering for peace during Ramadan in the Holy Land, we are organizing an interfaith Iftar Dinner in Sarasota, at Rising Tide International!
Join Sheikh Ghassan Manasra, Rev. Chris Miller, and the Abrahamic Reunion for a beautiful feast of delicious food, friendship, and interfaith connection.
This year, Interfaith Iftar Dinners will also be celebrated in Florida (Sarasota, Palm Beach County), and hopefully other locations.
If you’d like to make a donation to support the Iftar Dinner, please click here, or send a check made to “Abrahamic Reunion” to 2364 Arden Drive, Sarasota, FL, 34232.
Details TBA
Date: June 15th, 2017
Location: Rising Tide International, 5102 Swift Rd, Sarasota FL 34231
Host: Sheikh Ghassan Manasra, ghassan@abrahamicreunion.org
Contact & RSVP: Rev. Chris Miller, chris@abrahamicreunion.org
Suggested Donation: $10-25 (nobody turned away – all funds support Interfaith Iftar in the Holy Land)

Interfaith Iftar Peace Dinner - Sarasota, FL
2017-06-15 18:00 - 21:00 UTC
Every year the Abrahamic Reunion gathers religious, community, and political leaders, peacemakers, and laypeople from across Israel and Palestine for a Ramadan Iftar dinner dedicated to celebrating human oneness.
In support of our brothers and sisters gathering for peace during Ramadan in the Holy Land, we are organizing an interfaith Iftar Dinner in Sarasota, at Rising Tide International!
Join Sheikh Ghassan Manasra, Rev. Chris Miller, and the Abrahamic Reunion for a beautiful feast of delicious food, friendship, and interfaith connection.
This year, Interfaith Iftar Dinners will also be celebrated in Florida (Sarasota, Palm Beach County), and hopefully other locations.
If you’d like to make a donation to support the Iftar Dinner, please click here, or send a check made to “Abrahamic Reunion” to 2372 Arden Drive, Sarasota, FL, 34232.
Details TBA
Date: June 15th, 2017
Location: Rising Tide International, 5102 Swift Rd, Sarasota FL 34231
Host: Sheikh Ghassan Manasra, ghassan@abrahamicreunion.org
Contact & RSVP: Rev. Chris Miller, chris@abrahamicreunion.org
Suggested Donation: $10-25 (nobody turned away – all funds support Interfaith Iftar in the Holy Land)

Annual Interfaith Iftar Dinner in The Holy Land
2017-06-08 18:00 - 22:00 UTC
Every year the Abrahamic Reunion gathers religious, community, and political leaders, peacemakers, and laypeople from across Israel and Palestine for a Ramadan Iftar dinner dedicated to celebrating human oneness.
This event is by invitation only – for media and press inquiries, please contact info@abrahamicreunion.org
This year, Interfaith Iftar Dinners will also be celebrated in Florida (Sarasota, Palm Beach County), and hopefully other locations.
If you’d like to make a donation to support the Iftar Dinner, please click here, or send a check made to “Abrahamic Reunion” to 2372 Arden Drive, Sarasota, FL, 34232.
Details TBA
Date: June 8th, 2017
Location: Ilut, Israel
Host & RSVP: Sheikh Khalid Abu Ras, khalid@abrahamicreunion.org
Contact: Rodef Shalom Eliyahu McLean, eliyahu@abrahamicreunion.org

Garden of Spirit - A Benefit Concert for the AR (UK)
2017-05-20 19:00 - 21:00 UTC

Benefit Seminar for the AR - "Preparing the Soul For Death" with Shahabuddin David Less
2017-05-20 11:00 - 17:00 UTC
Abrahamic Reunion Co-Founder and Board Chairman Shahabuddin David Less will offer a 1-day retreat in London to benefit the Abrahamic Reunion -£60 per person.

Seminar Bookings:

To reserve your place (subject to availability) please return this form, completed, with your cheque, made out to “Abrahamic Reunion” to: Abrahamic Reunion, 3 Drummond Drive, Stanmore, Middx., HA7 3PF.
Or pay by bank transfer to: Lloyds Bank A/c No: 47911460, Sort Code 30-98-97, Name: Abrahamic Reunion (England)
Please quote your name and AR/1 as reference and email your details to england@abrahamicreunion.org to confirm.

Queries and info: Tel. 07970 521 787; 07970 000 895; england@abrahamicreunion.org
Cheque enclosed ( ) BACS payment ( ) tick as appropriate
The Abrahamic Reunion is 501c3 nonprofit registered in the USA and The Abrahamic Reunion (England) is a nonprofit association supporting their work. All donations are tax deductible.

(Livestream) Solar Eclipse Peace Prayer Across the World
2017-02-26 18:30 UTC
Join the Abrahamic Reunion Peacemakers and the AR Board Group that is in the Holy Land for a Peace Prayer to Circle the Earth (Literally) as we join in healing prayer for the planet with the Grandmothers of the Sacred We as they travel with a group through New Zealand.

Join your prayers across the planet for peace! Please type in the comments in the Livestream Feed where you are praying from, and any prayers to share.

Contact: Chris@AbrahamicReunion.org

Livestream Link: https://livestream.com/accounts/3116574/events/4361388

Abrahamic Reunion Website: www.abrahamicreunion.org

Grandmothers of the Sacred We Website: https://rainbowofbeing.wordpress.com/

The prayers are synchronized to the height of the Solar Eclipse happening Feb 26/27 over the southern hemisphere, an especially powerful time to add our prayers together, connecting two places nearly opposite on the globe, New Zealand and the Holy Land.

The Grandmothers of the Sacred We
Joined by Maori Tohunga and Spiritual Elder Rangimarie Pere, Sufi Murshida Devi Tide, Maori Great-Grandmother Moetu Taiha, Ojibwe Great-Grandmother Mary Lyons, the grandmothers and their group will share prayers and songs for the healing of the planet with the peacemakers over Livestream.

The Abrahamic Reunion: Religion As A Force For Peace

The Abrahamic Reunion with many friends in Jericho will join and add peace prayers from the different Abrahamic religious traditions of the Holy Land: Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Druze, and Baha’i, with Eliyahu McLean Ibtisam Mahameed Jiries Mansour Ghassan Manasra Anna Less Mohamad Jamous Dani Aqleh Raanan Mallek David Less and many others.

Peace – Salaam – Shalom – Please join

Interfaith Text Study & Peace Prayer - Lake Worth, FL
2017-02-07 19:00 - 21:00 UTC

Abrahamic Reunion Interfaith Peace Concert with ELAHI from Israel
2017-01-10 19:00 - 21:00 UTC
Abrahamic Reunion Interfaith Peace Concert
**ELAHI from Nazareth, Israel – Classic Middle Eastern Music**
**Kalimba & Friends – Upbeat & Bright Local Christian Band – Sing-A-Long**
**Noam Brown – Jewish Songs & Guitar w/ Marijah of REGGAE ALL-STARS drumming**

Join us for a night of beauty, music, friendship, and interfaith peace. We’ll enjoy a Jewish musical offering from Noam Brown, Christian music that’s fun to sing along with by Kalimba & Friends, and an hour-long set by Elahi, a Middle East Musical Ensemble led by Sheikh Abedelsalam and Isra Manasra, Son and Daughter-in-law of Sheikh Ghassan Manasra, AR International Executive Director.
Sheikh Ghassan Manasra will also provide interfaith inspirational messages about the work of the Abrahamic Reunion, a group of Religions & Spiritual Peacemakers (Muslim, Christian, Jewish, and Druze) dedicated to bridging the divides in Israel & Palestine.
Free to all! Suggested donation of $10-20 supports the interfaith peacemaking of the Abrahamic Reunion.

For this night especially we pray deeply for peace around the world – in Israel & Palestine, in Syria, across Africa, Asia, Russia, Europe, North and South America, through the oceans, Antartica, Australia, Pacifica, and everywhere in the world, we pray this night for peace together, and may there be peace in every heart, and for every being.
Abed and Isra have opened for Alicia Keys and played all around Israel and Palestine at various venues, festivals, conferences, interfaith gatherings, and peacemaking events, and are classically trained Middle Eastern Musicians. Abed especially has taken the Sufi music passed down through his family and the Qadiri Sufi School in the Holy Land and added to it more instruments. He and his family play these compositions and will take you on an inner journey through the music, chanting, singing, celebrating, and remembrance of the divine essence within each of us.

Abed and Isra Manasra (Son and Daughter-in-law of Sheikh Ghassan Manasra) are visiting Sarasota for December and part of January. They are professional musicians and have opened for Alicia Keys and played all across Israel in many venues, peacemaking events, interfaith conferences, and more.
Musical Instrumentation: Oud (Abed), Vocals (Isra, Ghassan), Kanoun (Hashem), Harmony Vocals (Zainab and Zuhaira), Percussion (Majdi). Classically trained in Middle Eastern and Sufi Music since they were children, Abed and Isra pursued further musical training with the great Kamil Shajrawi of the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance, one of the famous Middle Eastern Musicians in the Holy Land.

Celebration of Peace - Music & Middle Eastern Food for the Abrahamic Reunion
2017-01-07 19:00 - 21:00 UTC
**ELAHI from Nazareth, Israel – Classic Middle Eastern Music**
A night to remember the connection and shared ideals of the Abrahamic faiths: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam – and how their uniting in peace is a force that transforms the world and offers a hope to the world for a better world of harmonious coexistence free of violence and war.
*Hosted by Sheikh Ghassan Manasra, AR International Executive Director
*Musical Performance by ELAHI – Middle Eastern Music Ensemble headed by Sheikh Abed Elsalam Manasra, Abrahamic Reunion Israel Coordinator
*Prayers for Peace from Rabbi Michael Werbow (Temple Beth-Sholom), Father Joe Clifford (St. Thomas More Catholic Church), Rev. Elizabeth Thompson (Unity of Sarasota), and other religious leaders.
The Abrahamic Reunion hosts interfaith text study sessions in Sarasota, Palm Beach County, the UK, Germany, Israel, and Palestine, and holds major interfaith programs in the Holy Land. All funds donated are 501c3 tax deductible donations.
Checks should be made out to The Abrahamic Reunion.
Suggested Donations: $10 – $100
7-9pm
ELAHI (Abed and Isra and Ensemble) have opened for Alicia Keys and played all around Israel and Palestine at various venues, festivals, conferences, interfaith gatherings, and peacemaking events, and are classically trained Middle Eastern Musicians. Abed especially has taken the Sufi music passed down through his family and the Qadiri Sufi School in the Holy Land and added to it more instruments. He and his family play these compositions and will take you on an inner journey through the music, chanting, singing, celebrating, and remembrance of the divine essence within each of us.

Abed and Isra Manasra (Son and Daughter-in-law of Sheikh Ghassan Manasra) are visiting Sarasota for December and part of January. They are professional musicians and have opened for Alicia Keys and played all across Israel in many venues, peacemaking events, interfaith conferences, and more.
Musical Instrumentation: Oud (Abed), Vocals (Isra, Ghassan), Kanoun (Hashem), Harmony Vocals (Zainab and Zuhaira), Percussion (Majdi). Classically trained in Middle Eastern and Sufi Music since they were children, Abed and Isra pursued further musical training with the great Kamil Shajrawi of the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance, one of the famous Middle Eastern Musicians in the Holy Land.

Peacemakers In Germany - November 2016
2016-11-06 08:00 - 2016-11-16 17:00 UTC
Dear friends of the Abrahamic Reunion,
We look forward to you can finally announce the dates for the tour of Germany Abrahamic Reunion.
The international coordinators of the Abrahamic Reunion, Dr. Anna Less and Sheikh Ghassan Manasra and Eliyahu McLean (director of AR in Israel), Imam Khalil Albaz and his wife Sana Albaz (co-founder of the AR) and the Palestinian coordinator of AR Daniel Aqleh be personally their work report. There will be enough time and space for personal exchanges!
Read Anna Less’ Speaking Tour Blog Here

Public Events Schedule
Catholic Academy
Herrengraben 4, 20459 Hamburg, Germany Neue Wege zum Frieden im Heiligen Land – New ways for peace in the Holy Land
NOVEMBER 8:
14:30 reception at City Hall, Prinzipalmarkt 10, 48143 Münster, Germany
17:00 Universal Peace Celebration, Dominican Church, Salzstraße 10, 48143 Münster, Germany
20:00 Information session, Reading Public Library, Alter Steinweg 11, 48143 Münster, Germany
NOVEMBER 9:
14:30 – Workshop
18:00 University, castle, room S, Schlossplatz 2 Tibet Kailash House, Wallstraße 8, 79098 Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
Interreligioese Friedensarbeit im Heiligen Land – Interfaith peacework in the Holy Land
Yavuz Sultan Selim Mosque, Luisenring 28, Mannheim, Germany
“Interreligiöse Friedensarbeit der Abrahamic Reunion im Heiligen” (Click for German (auf Deutsch) / Facebook event) – Interfaith Peacemaking of the Abrahamic Reunion in the Holy Land

With Guest Presenters Talat Kamran, Head of the Mannheim Institute for integration and interfaith dialog, and Turkish Sufi musicians: Mehmet and Ali Ungan
Of course, the visit of such a large group of Peace Makers is associated with corresponding costs. For every donation to enable this visit, we are deeply grateful !!!
THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT !!!

With best regards, peace
Moni Cornish (for Global Hope Fund eV)
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www.globalhopefund.de www.abrahamicreunion.org
info@globalhopefund.de germany@abrahamicreunion.org

Healing Ourselves, Healing the World
2016-10-18 18:30 - 21:30 UTC
Discover How to Make Peace in Your Life from Peacemakers from the Holy Land

The Abrahamic Reunion is a group of peacemakers from diverse spiritual traditions who work to heal the effects of trauma and fear resulting from religious violence. Though living in seemingly hopeless circumstances, these peacemakers have transformed themselves and others.
This short, interactive workshop will teach us how to bring people of different cultures and belief systems together to:

explore common spiritual values
rebuild trust through dialogue and understanding
heal past traumas through the development of compassion and empathic solidarity for one another.

Come away with tools for creating your own individual inner peace as well learning simple techniques for working with groups.

Anna Less PhD is a doctor of Chinese Medicine, and the Co-founder of the Abrahamic Reunion. She is the President of Rising Tide International, a world wide spiritual center, and the Founder of the Universal Retreat Center in Florida, USA. She is also a founder of The Hope Project India – a nonprofit that provides education and medical services to India’s poorest and most vulnerable populations

Ghassan Manasra
International Executive Director of the Abrahamic Reunion, Fulbright scholar, International Dialogue leader and lecturer, @ MIT, Yale, Harvard, Oxford, Hebrew University, Bar Elan University and expert consultant for the following governments: Israel, Turkey, USA, Bosnia, & Albania, Ghassan is a Muslim from Nazareth, Israel
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Earlybird standard £12.00 GBPEarlybird concessions £8.00 GBP

Tuesday October 18th 6:30 – 9:30pm
Registration from 6.15pm
Price: £15 (£10 concessions)
Early Bird Price: £12 if booked before October 10th (£8 concessions)
All proceeds will go to the Abrahamic Reunion, a non-profit USA charity.

Interfaith Sukkot Celebration, London UK
2016-10-16 16:00 - 21:00 UTC
October 16th, 4 – 9pm – Informal talk/Interfaith celebration of the Jewish festival, Sukkot, to be held at the home of Leonora and Jonathan Samuels, London NW4; open to friends and those of all religions.
Please email us if you’re intending to come at amanda@kenton.gb.com for further details.
‘On Sukkot, it’s customary to read Chapter 14 from the prophet Zechariah”…who “hoped Sukkot could be an opportunity for shared healing after regional war. “The survivors of every nation,” he wrote, “will ascend to Jerusalem year after year, to worship the God beyond all armies, and to celebrate the holiday of Sukkot” (Zechariah 14:16). Camping together, making music, cooking food, sharing customs and creating new ones at an annual week-long interfaith festival: that was Zechariah’s visionary plan for regional healing. We don’t begin with political dialogue, theological comparison, or even shared stories of hurt and joy. Instead, we simply practice together in joy, one week a year.’ (http://www.myjewishlearning.com/rabbis-without-borders/sukkot-our-interfaith-hippie-re-visioning-festival/)

Promoting Peace at the London Interfaith Center
2016-10-09 16:00 - 17:30 UTC
The Abrahamic Reunion

WHEN: October 9, 2016 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm

WHERE:
London Inter Faith Centre
St Annes & St Andrews Church
125 Salusbury Rd, London NW6 6RG
UK

COST: Free

CONTACT:

Laurence Hillel
07801286819
Email

Abrahamic Reunion
‘ Promoting Peace through Interfaith Dialogue in Israel and the West Bank’
Dr. Anna Less, PhD, a peacemaker, speaker, and presenter, is the co-founder and International Co-Director of the Abrahamic Reunion. As a young woman, Anna realized her life’s work lay with healing, and bringing harmony and balance to both individuals and communities. Anna is a Minister of the Universal Worship, a service that celebrates the spiritual wisdom of all religions equally at a single altar. Anna has led workshops throughout the world that have helped both clergy and laypeople find ways of rising above their distinctions and differences.
Sheikh Ghassan Manasra, Director, Islamic Cultural Center in Nazareth, and International Co-Director of The Abrahamic Reunion, was born in Nazareth in 1968. A peacemaker from the Holy Land, he believes that all people around the world from all religions are equal and must continue as partners and colleagues together to build a world of peace, harmony, and humanity. For the last 20 years, he has taught at conferences and events in the Holy Land, and travelled internationally lecturing on Islam, Peacemaking, Interfaith, and Multifaith.
David Less is a global teacher of meditation, conflict resolution and inter-faith dialog of over forty years. For over a decade he has been the Global Dean of the Universal Worship, an organization in over thirty countries, that honours the commonality in all religions and appreciates and respects the differences, celebrating of all of the faiths of humanity without cultural or religious bias. 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.
Light Refreshments available from 3.30pm
For more information please contact wifasec@aol.com or laurence.hillel@londoninterfaith.org.uk

Abrahamic Reunion Livestream Peace Meditation from Jerusalem
2016-09-19 08:00 - 17:00 UTC
Join David Less, Ghassan Manasra, Eliyahu McLean, and the Abrahamic Reunion for a Livestream Peace Meditation in the Old City of Jerusalem. Join us as we invoke, experience, and spread peace.
September 21st is the International Day Of Peace – please join with us wherever you are, or watch the meditation later (it will be saved online).
Livestream Link: https://livestream.com/accounts/3116574
Contact Info: chris@abrahamicreunion.org

Interfaith Ramadan Iftar in Sarasota
2016-07-03 20:00 - 22:00 UTC
at the ISSB hosted by Imam Yousuf Memon and the Abrahamic Reunion
We will bring together people from our monthly text study group, including congregation members from Unity of Sarasota, St. Thomas More Catholic Parish, Temple Sinai, Temple Beth Sholom, and Rising Tide International.
The clergy will speak about the tradition and meaning of fasting in each of their faiths before sharing a blessed Ramadan Iftar meal.
The fast will break at 8:28pm.
This event is closed by invitation only.
Press contact: 941-993-9994, chris@abrahamicreunion.org

Multi-faith Iftar Celebration in Faradis, Israel
2016-06-28 13:00 - 22:00 (Asia/Jerusalem)
Please join us for the Abrahamic Reunion Ramadan multi-faith Iftar gathering, hosted by the Tent of Hagar and Sarah and the community of Faradis, Tuesday, June 28.
A bus of Israelis and Palestinians will join from Jerusalem.
4:00-6:30: We will spend several hours together at Hof Dor/Tantura beach. We will learn about the history of the village of Tantura before and during the 1948 war, and relax at the beach.
6:30: Go up from beach to Faradis for the Ramadan Iftar meal
7:00 PM Ramadan Iftar gatheriing: Jews and Christians will break bread with fasting Muslims for the Iftar meal, at a school overlooking Faradis and the Mediterranean Sea.
We will have opening and closing prayer circles by religious leaders, Muslim, Christian and Jewish, men and women.
8:30 Closing prayer circle, bus back to Jerusalem
To join from Jerusalem, please meet us Liberty Bell Park/Gan HaPamon at 1:00 PM.
100 Shekels suggested donation.
Please RSVP to: theabrahamicreunion@gmail.com, to reserve a place in the bus.
Please indicate if you need a kosher meal option.
For more information, call: Eliyahu at: 058-757-8522
Abed: 054-924-7795
For directions where to go in Faradis, call Ibtisam Mahamid: 054-743-3956
