| Spirit Holders
Rabbi Ohad Ezrahi
Rabbi Ohad Ezrahi is
the founder and the spiritual director of Hamakom Intentional
Community and Retreat Center in the Judean Desert, Israel (www.hamakom.org.il).
He was born in 1965 to a secular Israeli family and grew up
as an atheist. His spiritual journey led him from an interest
in Zen-Buddhism to the core of the ultra-Orthodox Kabbalistic
and Hasidic world in Jerusalem. After teaching Talmud, Kabbalah
and Jewish meditation in several Yeshivot (traditional Jewish
academies) he left this world to seek a new way. He studies
philosophy, literature and religion in the Hebrew University.
Ohad was ordained by Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi as a Rabbi
and a spiritual leader. In 2000 Ohad received a Rockefeller
fellowship as part of the "Science, Gender and the Sacred"
program in the University of Oregon. He is an author of several
books in contemporary Jewish mysticism and spirituality. In
the last several years he has been teaching Jewish Wisdom in
Israel, India, Europe and the U.S.
More can be found in our website at www.hamakom.org.il
In our spiritual work we need not create anything new. All we
need is to
illuminate that which is already hidden within us" - The
Rebbe of Kotsk
Rabbi Ohad Ezrahi
Hamakom Intentional Community & Retreat Center
Dead-Sea, Israel 86983
Tell: (972)-2-9947479
Cell: (972)-53-767596
Sensei Grover
Genro Gauntt
Sensei Grover Genro
Gauntt currently lives in New York City and is a Zen teacher
in the Soto tradition. He is the father of two sons, a social
activist and leads Vajra Communications, a company that provides
stress and crisis counseling and meditation training to for
profit and non-profit organizations and educational services
to emergency service providers, to youth and to the staff and
inmates of state and federal prisons. He is director of Celebrate
Diversity New York City, a program that will launch in July
2004 that will cross-fertilize congregations of different faith
traditions throughout the City and encourage them to do community
social service projects together. He leads street retreats internationally
and works with the American Indian community.
Sensei Grover Genro
Gauntt
Vajra Communications
384 E. 149th Street, # 424
Bronx, NY 10455
Ph: 718 993-1000 Fax: 718 665-1259
Email: Grovergauntt@att.net
Grover Genro Gauntt
is just trying his best to be a good human being.
No references, studies or accomplishments count.
He had some stuff and now he doesn't.
He has no questions and no answers.
And is having the time of his life.
Andrzej
Getsugen Krajewski, Hoshi
Andrzej Getsugen Krajewski, Hoshi, is Director of the Peacemaker
Community Poland and the Auschwitz-Birkenau Bearing Witness
Retreat. He began practicing Zen with Dae Soen Sa Nim in 1990
and for the past 20 years has continued his Zen practice with
Genpo Roshi. He claims to - sometimes - attain the beginner?s
mind. Andrzej has been co-organizing the Auschwitz-Birkenau
Retreats since the very beginning in 1996. He is writer.
andrzej@peacemakercircle.org
(22) 842 78 87 0 501 603 291
www.peacemakercircle.org
Malgosia
Jiho Braunek, Sensei
Malgosia Jiho Braunek, Sensei, is a Zen teacher and President
of the Kanzeon Sangha Poland, she is dharma successor of Genpo
Roshi. She has served as Buddhist clergy and advisor at the
Auschwitz-Birkenau Retreats since their inception in 1996. Sensei
Malgosia has a long and very successful career in Polish films,
and is very well known both as actress and Buddhist teacher.
She has been married to Andrzej for 30 years and together they
have raised three children.
Father Manfred
Father Manfred Deselaers
will lead the Christian services, as he has been already doing
since several years.The Catholic
priest from Aachen in Germany, Fr. Manfred is living in Auschwitz/Oswiecim
since 1990. He obtained a doctorate at the Papal Theological
Academy in Krakow, where he is lecturing the fundamental theology.
He is working at the Center for Dialog and Prayer in Oswiecim.
He is the author of ěGod and evil in respect to the life and
testimony of Rudolf Hoess, commandant of Auschwitzî. The book
is available in Polish and in German.In 2000 the Polish Counsel
of Christians and Jews honored Fr. Manfred Deselaers with title
"Person of Reconciliation".
Fleet Shinryu
Maull
Fleet Shinryu Maull is
a Zen peacemaker priest, a Dharma Holder in Roshi Bernie Glassman's
lineage, a senior student of Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, a meditation
teacher in both the Zen Peacemaker and Shambhala Buddhist Communities,
and a certified council trainer with the Ojai Foundation's Center
for Council Training. He is the founder and director of Prison
Dharma Network, National Prison Hospice Association, and the
Colorado Peacemaker Institute. At Naropa University he is the
director for contemplative end-of-life and elder care training
programs and teaches a variety of courses in socially enagaged
buddhism, engaged spirituality, and contemplative approaches
to social action, peacemaking and environmental activism. His
new book, Dharma in Hell, the Prison Writings of Fleet Maull,
will be published this year.
Barbara Wegmuller
My name is Barbara. I am 52,years old.
Married and a mother of five wonderfull children. Working in
Peacemaker Community as a Coordinator and Steward in Switzerland
where I live. Member in the Foundersgroup of ZPO Europe an Zen
Peacemakercircles. My wish and my practise is to become whole
and support others to do so.
/Barbara and her husband Roland have
already several times participated in the AB retreat, helping
in organizing it and even facilitating the morning groups.
Ginni Stern
Ginni Stern has been
a Holocaust Educator, Hospice Trainer and Psychotherapist in
Vermont for more than 20 years. She is the daughter of a Jewish
Holocaust Survivor, and the half-sister of a gentle German man.
She has been active in Dialogue Groups of desendants of the
Holocaust & the Third Reich since 1995. Because she has
no family gravestones upon which to place a stone, she has returned
each year since 1996, to Bear Witness at Auschwitz and place
a stone into the Ash Pit at Birkenau. Ginni has been actively
envisioning the creation of Bearing Witness Retreats in Rwanda
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