by katie@betalef.org | Nov 28, 2011 | Greater Community
Inspired by the 10th anniversary of 9/11, thousands of people gathered online and at the Seattle Center on 9/11/2011 to launch a movement in rebuilding our relationships with love and kindness and to celebrate global unity. Rabbi Olivier BenHaim was at Memorial...
by RabbiOlivier | Nov 23, 2011 | Israel
Our Israel trip is winding down. We have one more day in Jerusalem and, after dinner tonight, we will all drive back to Ben Gurion airport to catch our Seattle-bound flights. We spent the last two days in Jerusalem already, beginning with Yad Vashem—the Holocaust...
by RabbiOlivier | Nov 20, 2011 | Israel
There is an oasis in the middle of the Judean desert called Ein Gedi. Israelis built a kibbutz there many decades ago and transformed it into an internationally recognized botanical garden where the most astonishing species of flowers, coexist alongside the richest...
by RabbiOlivier | Nov 18, 2011 | Israel
The day started in meditation. Our practice was about holding in awareness all of our sensations, emotions and thoughts with love and compassion; to open our heart to what is, to fully receive the moment without resisting it or wanting it to be any different than it...
by RabbiOlivier | Nov 15, 2011 | Israel
Tel Aviv is the contrast between the old and the new. In 1909, a group of Jews left the millennia old town of Jaffa where they had resettled decades earlier after leaving their native Europe, in order to build a new city on what, at the time, were only sand dunes by...
