82. Working Retreat - April 2005

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Dr. Tayseer Maray of The Golan for Development (left) with Ecumenical Accompaniers Arne Essén of Norway (left) and Lydia Gall of Sweden.

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Ecumenical Accompaniers Anna Burén (left) and Lydia Gall (both from Sweden) looking on as a Torah scroll is unrolled.

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Ecumenical Accompaniers Arne Essén of Norway (left) and Rie Seifert of Denmark at the Women in Black demonstration.

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Ecumenical Accompaniers supporting Women in Black at their weekly Friday demonstration.

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Gila Svirsky of Women in Black, the Israeli Women's Coalition for Peace, and a member of the EAPPI's Local Reference Group, talked about the Israeli peace movement.

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Lydia Aisenberg spoke to the accompaniers from Kibbutz Mishmar Ha'emek.

09RetreatRabbiArikAscherman

Rabbi Arik Ascherman, director of Rabbis for Human Rights, talked about the group's work and the meaning of Shabbat.

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Rabbi Ehud Bandel, president of the Masorti Movement and the founding director of Rabbis for Human Rights.

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The accompaniers walking through the village of Majdal Shams, one of five Syrian villages still left in the Golan Heights from the 139 that existed prior to the 1967 war.

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Dr. Illan Pappe, one of Israel's "new historians," addressing the accompaniers.