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Rebecca Abrahamson is active in cultural diplomacy, has traveled in this capacity to Istanbul and Cairo, co-hosted a conference on making the UN Resolutions for a Culture of Peace into law at the Knesset, and is editor of "Divine Diversity: an Orthodox Rabbi Engages with Muslims." She is married to Ben Abrahamson, who is also active in Muslim-Jewish dialogue and cultural diplomacy, and busy with her children and grandchildren.
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A new approach to the peace process at the Knesset.
Egyptian activist Hassan El-Shamy: "Only fifteen percent of the Egyptian Parliament consists of women. The percentage should be fifty plus one!"
"If everyone would ask himself, ‘What does God want from me?’ that would bring us together.”
"Sometimes you have to hit a wall, feel the rift, in order to build a new bridge."
Besides our Orthodox Jewish community, there is another community that faces exactly the same issues: The thriving and varied American Muslim community.
Controversial and compelling. the discussion touched on essential issues concerning the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, RESPECTFULLY.
Magda's dreams is an Egypt that is cosmopolitan and tolerant, that embraces the breadth of humanity that Egypt embodied in recent memory.
The best hasbara campaign to defend Israel and Judaism will never really be enough; there is not the trust and common language needed for such efforts. The gap can be bridged not via hasbara but via joint Jewish-Islamic courts.
Egypt and Israel have a peace treaty going back 37 years, no war for 43; it’s time we turn this very cold peace into something real.
