Rabbi Lynn Gottlieb-January 10, 2014

Rabbi Lynn Gottlieb, author of Trail Guide to the Torah of Nonviolence and She Who Dwells Within: A Feminist Vision of Renewed Judaism, is co-coordinator of the Shomer Shalom Network for Jewish Nonviolence. As of 2014, Lynn will enter her 42nd year in rabbinic service. Lynn is a storyteller, author, and peace activist who has received several human rights awards. Her writing appears in more than 40 publications and she has performed her work throughout the world. Lynn is cofounder of the Muslim-Jewish Peacewalk and cofounder of The Community of Living Traditions. She also works with the Fellowship of Reconciliation on the Peacewalk Project and Artist Delegations to Palestine.

Rabbi Gottlieb is a teacher of the history of contemporary nonviolence and offers dynamic workshops and training courses in partnership with a multi-faith, multicultural and multigenerational teams that explore nonviolence as a strategy of cultural resistance and constructive peace building using Theatre of the Oppressed techniques, text study, the arts, film, active listening exercises and approaches to creating and sustaining campaigns for social change. As a rabbi, Lynn also offers groups a unique perspective on the history and practice of Jewish Nonviolence which is called Shmirat Shalom.

To listen to a 30 minute interview with Rabbi Gottlieb from our Peace Paradigm Radio program on January 10, 2014, click the link here or click on the grey arrow below.
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“The Torah says about itself, ‘Before you, life and death; a blessing and a curse. Choose life and presumably a blessing, so you and your children can live.’ So the Torah of nonviolence starts with that—life—and what it means to choose life. For me, that means to choose nonviolence.”

–Rabbi Lynn Gottlieb