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Accelerating Women Entrepreneurs (AWE) in the Middle East
un articulo por Eileen and Felora, AWE (abridged)

It is our distinct pleasure to announce that due to the generosity and support of our mission by our wonderful investors, AWE has just returned from another successful workshop in Israel and a first successful workshop in Beit Jala, administered by the Palestinian Authorities.



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We delivered a follow up, deeper workshop to a culturally diverse group of women at Talitha Kumi Evangelical Guest House, Beit Jala, a Palestinian Christian town in the Bethlehem Governorate of the West Bank, located outside of Bethlehem. The site is ideal as it is the home area of the West Bank Palestinian women, many of whom were already AWE participants, and the Israeli government permits Jews to travel to this zone, outside of Bethlehem. The Guest House was situation on the highest elevation in the area around Bethlehem amid multiple acres of woods, olive and apricot trees. The Guest House is attached to a school that serves Christian and Muslim Palestinian children, though all religions would be equally welcome. The school was among the first to educate girls in Palestine and the name Talitha Kumi is derived from the Bible, the translation, “Little girl, I tell you to get up”, (Mark 5/41). Since our mission includes advancing women who in turn advance their families and girls, this seemed like a very good fit, indeed.

We delivered our first workshop in Jerusalem at The American Center, a part of the American Embassy in Tel Aviv. The Center is a section of the Office of Public Affairs. The Center promotes public knowledge and awareness, aimed at the Israeli public, through information services, cultural programs, exchange programs and meetings with American experts in cooperation with local institutions. We were privileged to offer our introductory AWE/MOP Leadership Workshop to a very vibrant group of women.

We are pleased to report that both workshops were very well received by the women and both resulted in requests to return.

We also traversed the beautiful and complicated country to meet pivotal potential friends of AWE and were rewarded with new friendships, opportunities and awesome possibilities for AWE!

We accomplished our goal of returning to Israel, inviting the women we had encountered previously, offering a deeper follow up on the Matrix of Peace (MOP) Leadership Training, renewing relationships, strengthening ties, deepening women’s understanding of their own power and role in their circumstances and community.

We accomplished our goal of encouraging the women to stay in touch with one another, set up meetings, opportunities to network, help one another and showcase each other’s goods.

We accomplished our goal of a further outreach, offering new women outside of our core AWE participants an introductory MOP Leadership experience.

We accomplished our goal of forging new relationships with organizations and institutions known to mirror our goals and vision and to interact with women entrepreneurial leaders. . .

[Thank you to Janet Hudgins, the CPNN reporter for this article.]

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Len and Libby Traubman have sent in the following important addition to their year-end review of the public peace process for Palestiinian-Jewish dialogue.

NEW INITIATIVE OF PROMINENT AMERICAN RELIGIOUS LEADERS FOR MIDDLE EAST PEACE

    In December, 2003, a delegation of 33 of America's most prominent Jewish, Christian and Muslim religious leaders met in Washington, DC to announce their new, unprecedented, collaborative effort -- The National Interreligious Leadership Initiative for Peace in the Middle East.

    These citizen-leaders of their faiths, and their plans, are described at:
                       http://www.walktheroadtopeace.org

    They will continue working within their communities and together "to mobilize broad public support for active, determined and effective U.S. leadership in pursuit of peace between Israel, the Palestinians and Arab states."

    They insist on a viable, independent, democratic Palestinian state alongside the existing state of Israel with enduring peace and security for both sides, thus amplifying the voices of increasing numbers of courageous Arabs and Jews of goodwill.

    The Washington convergence was initiated by A Different Future (http://www.adifferentfuture.org), the U.S. Interreligious Committee for Peace in the Middle East
(http://www.usicpme.org), and the United Religions Initiative (http://www.uri.org) with initial financial support from the Nathan Cummings Foundation.


Este artículo ha sido publicado on line el August 1, 2014.