Please join us for the book launch of Ner Shalom’s long-awaited poetry anthology, In the Light of Peace. With poems, meditations and artwork from 29 Ner Shalom members, it lays bare our community's passionate heart, dancing lyrically around Jewish liturgy, weaving fabric of spiritual thought, and commenting on the sacred cycles of life. Tonight’s event will feature music, toasts, and poetry read by contributors.
The book is available for purchase on Amazon. Click here. We will also have autographed copies available for purchase at the Ner Shalom office. (Watch for details.)
Contributors to In the Light of Peace are: Alexandra Ellen Appel, Robin Birdfeather, Laura Blatt, Abby Lynn Bogomolny, Leiah Bowden, Sally Churgel, Yoná Flemming, Carolyn Shoshana Fershtman, Diane Frank, Diana Glassman, Dianna L. Grayer, Sheridan Gold, Basha Hirschfeld, Myrna Joy, Anna Belle Kaufman, Rabbi Irwin Keller, Rita S. Losch, Barbara Lesch McCaffry, Margo Miller, Susan L. Miller, Cyndi Norwitz, Linda Pantoskey, Nancy E. Rapp, Rita Rowan, Terry Rowan, Adam Shemper, Dafna Jo Simon, Phil Temko, and Lorenzo Valensi.
This event will be in the Ner Shalom “Sanctuary” Zoom Room. The link is in your Ner Shalom eBlast.
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Praise for the book:
"A rich collection of color, fragrance, simile, metaphor, whimsy and profound musing!" Rabbi Shefa Gold, director of The Center for Devotional, Energy and Ecstatic Practice
"Keep this powerful medicine for the soul nearby." Rabbi Marcia Pager, Dean, ALEPH Ordination Program
"In the Light of Peace is a rich and beautiful gathering of poems to caress the tender heart." Francis Weller, psychotherapist, writer and soul activist
"It is a wave of words crashing on the shore of consciousness — soothing, startling, sanding down and building up." Jan Phillips, multiple award-winning writer, storyteller and workshop facilitator, Director of the Livingkindness Foundation
More information is available on the website of Bayit, the Publisher. Click here to go there.