Triangle Tikkun

Triangle TIKKUN reaches out and builds respectful alliances with other groups—both religious and secular—in its effort to reach a just peace in the Middle East and to create a more caring world. To foster understanding and connections in the community, we work to:
∆ Promote dialogue and understanding between Muslims, Christians, Jews, and others of goodwill through dinners, potlucks, communologues, panel discussions, speakers, and meetings. ∆ Work with other groups to create synergy and help promote a similar message in the Triangle area. ∆ Join with other organizations to produce and place paid advertisement supporting the progressive middle path for peace. ∆ Sponsor film, book, and article discussions on topics pertinent to Triangle Tikkun’s activist and spiritual mission.	∆ Develop relationships with Triangle area representatives in Congress to promote peaceful alternatives for Israel and Palestine. Tikkun numbers have joined with like-minded individuals and groups to meet with Congress members and staff to educate them on the promise and importance of the progressive middle math to peace in Israel/Palestine. ∆ Offer speakers to explain the Tikkun progressive middle path to Middle East peace to other groups in the Triangle and elsewhere in North Carolina.
Some of the speakers and panelists we have sponsored or co-sponsored in this area include:
Rabbi Michael Lerner, founder and editor of Tikkun magazine. Dr. Susannah Heschel, Professor of Religion at Dartmouth College and co-founder of Tikkun Community. David Potorti, co-founder of September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows. Samia Serageldin, Egyptian born novelist, columnist and book editor. Rotem Mor and Eyal Brami, Israeli Refuseniks Father Michael Lapsley, director of the Institute of Healing of Memories in South Africa Rabbi John Friedman, Judea Reform Congregation and national board member of Brit Tzedek v'Shalom Major Stav Adivi, a board member of the Israeli Committee against House Demolitions (ICAHD)	Dr. Ihab Hamdy Saad, professor of Engineering and active in MAPAC (Muslim American Political Affairs Council) Rabbi Eric Solomon of Beth Meyer Synagogue Iyad Hindi, past president of MAPAC, MAS National Outreach Committee Rabbi Raachel Jurovics, Temple Beth Or Rev Mike Watts, deacon Pullen Memorial Baptist Church Father Jacek Orzechowski of Immaculate Conception Church Dr. Richard Wark participant in ICAHD home rebuilding Khalilah Sabra host of MAPAC Live Dr. Shai Ginsberg, Duke University, Tikkun Community Khodr Zohour, Shaw University, MAPAC Dr. Omid Safi, professor of Islamic Studies at UNC spoke on Iran.
Their topics have included, “Finding Common Ground in a Fractious World”, “Healing Israel/Palestine”, “The Healing Journey of Individuals, Communities and Nations”, "A Divestment Debate", "After Gaza, What?", "Understanding Ramadan & The Days of Awe", "Abraham in our Faiths", "Bethlehem Blues", "Religious extremism inflaming the conflict in Hebron"
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