The Compassionate Listening Project

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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.

Selected media coverage of The Compassionate Listening Project:

Listening - the common ground amid conflict, August 3, 2007, by Janet Tu, The Seattle Times
Torah Thoughts – Parashat Mattot, July 29, 2005 by Rabbi Amy Eilberg
The Compassionate Listening Project (download full article with photos), February 2004by Deborah Rohan Schlueter, The World & I
Listening for Peace, by Rosemary Zibart, El Dorado Sun, November 2004
Compassionate Listening Project aims to help Germans, Jews reconcile, by Eric Fingerhut, Washington Jewish Week-Online edition, October 2004
Karma Yoga Award - Seeing Through Hostility and Fear, by Phil Catalfo, Yoga Journal, December 2003
Listening To the Other Side, by Kathryn Kingsbury, Hope Magazine, Nov/Dec 2003
Reconciliation and Magic, by Faye Strauss, December 2003
Listening to the Stranger: A Sojourn in Syria, by Virginia Baron, Fellowship Magazine, July/August 2002
Compassionate Listening: A Simply Radical Approach, by Erin Geesaman, The Catalyst, July 2002
Journeys Toward Compassion, by Ann Batser, Medford Mail Tribune
Today I was a Racial Profiler, by Laura J. Nigro 'LJ', Marketing Director, Jewish Federation of Portland
Just Listen. by Leah Green, YES! magazine, November 2001
(download PDF article with photos by Beverly Duperly Boos)
An Enemy is One Whose Story We Have Not Heard, by Gene Knudsen Hoffman
Lending Her Ears to a World Conflict, The Oregonian, April 24, 2001.
Listening Key to Healing Wounds in MidEast, Leah Green, Hopedance Magazine and Santa Barbara News Press, January 2001
Compassionate Listening Journal, Interview with Dr. Eyad Sarraj, Director, Gaza Community Mental Health Clinic, Gaza City, November 16, 1999
A Better Way To Make Peace, by Rabbi Phil Bentley, October, 1999
Niki Landau's Dvar Torah, September 12, 1999
Listening With Compassion, YES! Journal of Positive Futures, Fall 1998
Listening With The Heart - A Journey For Peace, The Jewish Reporter, March 1998
Attending to Pain, an Interview With Susan Heckler, Satya, July 1998
Emissary of Peace, The Hartford Courant, April 27, 1998
Compassionate Listening Journal, Interview with Salah Ta'amari, Palestinian Legislative Council Member, Bethlehem (and former PLO fighter), November 13, 1998
Compassionate Listening Journal, Sheikh Abu Saleh, November 16, 1998