By Reverend Peter Ilginfritz
This past January a group from University Congregational United Church of Christ in Seattle and Temple B’nai Torah in Bellevue went on a two-week peace mission study trip to Israel/Palestine. We went as a delegation from the Compassionate Listening Project in order to hear the stories and views of peoples on all sides of the conflict in this war torn land.
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By Andrea Cohen, Seattle Post Intelligencer , September 10, 2002
By Virginia Baron
Fellowship Magazine, July/August 2002
“Syria is the best kept secret,” Angela Williams, UNRWA director in Syria, told us on the morning of our second day in the country-and we were already inclined to agree.
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By Leah Green, Director
The Compassionate Listening Project
A unique gathering took place on May 25, 2002 at Town Hall in Seattle Washington, attended by approximately 300 citizens.
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By Erin Geesaman
The Catalyst, July 2002
Suicide bombers. Motherless children. Tanks rolling through neighborhoods, crumbling homes to rubble. In the Middle East today, these types of events are typically considered newsworthy. You won’t likely read about something so boring as listening. However, the Compassionate Listening Project and its delegations in the Middle East is far from boring. It’s simply radical. Imagine asking a terrorist to speak his views, his wounds, his dreams, and how he came to feel this way. Imagine listening.
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By Anne Batzer
Medford Mail Tribune, May 15, 2002
Carol Hwoschinsky says she really didn’t fear for her own safety on her last trip to Israel. But then there was that one evening. It was the darkest hour of a gravid and dead-silent January night. She was all alone. Gunshots pierced through the cold. “The Israelis were out looking for terrorist,” Carol explains, wincing at the painful memory. “they were getting pretty close. It was just so upsetting.”
By Laura J. Nigro ‘LJ’, Marketing Director
Jewish Federation of Portland
Shortly after noon today I stepped off the bus and invaded downtown Portland. A community peace gathering was underway on this brilliant Indian Summer day. But I had not come to join the rally per se. I had come to hunt for a certain type of person it was likely to draw.
by Leah Green, with photography by Beverly Duperly Boos
Published in YES! Magazine, January 2001 issue November 2001
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By Gene Knudsen Hoffman
By Karen Forni, Editor
Mill Valley Herald, May 1-7, 2001
The images are striking: A woman leaning close to press a kiss to the Wailing Wall. An elderly married couple laughing together. The photograph of a blissful baby-and the bullet hole in the wall above it.
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