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I’m only one person, and my efforts are small, person-to-person, but this is where I feel I can make a difference in a region of the world that I care deeply about. – Rabbi Andrea Cohen-Kiener, from Emissary of Peace

Rabbi hears from all sides on mission to Mideast

By Marily Silverstein, New Jersey Jewish News , May 6, 2008
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Listening – the common ground amid conflict

By Janet Tu, The Seattle Times, August 3, 2007
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Torah Thoughts – Parashat Mattot

By Rabbi Amy Eilberg, July 29, 2005

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Listening for Peace

By Rosemary Zibart, El Dorado Sun Magazine, New Mexico, November 2004

The technique Green has developed is “creating an environment conducive to peace-building through deep, empathic listening.” However, she admits, “It is no simple thing: At times we listeners must dig deep within ourselves to move beyond our own judgments and opinions.”

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Compassionate Listening Project aims to help Germans, Jews reconcile

By Eric Fingerhut, Washington Jewish Week

It may be almost 60 years since the end of World War II, but plenty of Jews still avoid Germany, whether it’s not buying German cars or refusing to travel to that country.

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The Compassionate Listening Project

By Deborah Rohan Schlueter, The World & I, February 2004

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Karma Yoga Award – Seeing Through Hostility and Fear

By Phil Catalfo, Yoga Journal, December 2003
The Compassionate Listening Project and Leah Green received the 2003 Karma Yoga Award from the Yoga Journal!

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Listening to the Other Side

By Kathryn Kingsbury, Hope Magazine, December 7, 2003

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Reconciliation and Magic

By Faye Strauss

In October 2003, on a Compassionate Listening Project trip to Germany, I lost my mind. In my case, this was a good thing.

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