With OVI and OVP Youth leaders At dinner wearing OV pin With Mika Almog and Lior Shlain Avi Cohen, the "godfather" of humor in the Israeli TV, learns about OV from Gil Shamy Paul Reiser, mad about Israel, israel21c By Nicky Blackburn April 20, 2009 It’s the voice that gets you first. His hit TV [...]
Noa and Mira Awad, friends and supporters of the OneVoice Movement, are representing Israel in the EuroVision contest. Here is a glimpse of their inspiring song:
Seven+ years after the OneVoice Movement was founded, you would imagine that its guiding principles, message and mission are pretty clear. But as if common messaging among Israelis and Palestinians wasn’t challenging enough, the Gaza war caused so much mistrust and resentment that even the most ardent believers in co-existence, peace, freedom and security for [...]
There are some people in the world that you are just grateful for them being around. Jeff Skoll is one of them. He is the most unassuming, down-to-earth, self-effacing guy, and at the same time among the most accomplished, brilliant, strategic, successful and deeply committed to make this a better world. I have been following [...]
We are honored that BusinessWeek chose PeaceWorks among 25 of "America’s Most Promising Social Entrepreneurs." If you like what we do, we’d appreciate you voting here for us – PeaceWorks Holdings – as the top 5 will be featured in the magazine. http://images.businessweek.com/ss/09/04/0403_social_entrepreneurs/19.htm Peaceworks Holdings peaceworks.com Daniel Lubetzky, 40 New York, N.Y. Can joint business [...]
We are so humbled and honored that, following his meeting with our young Israeli and Palestinian leaders in OneVoice, and following his further learning on our movement over the last few months, including the leadership of our colleagues in OneVoice Europe, Paul McCartney agreed to join the OneVoice Movement’s International Honorary Board. Sample story follows…. [...]
Dalia Labadi from OneVoice Palestine and Itamar Cohen from OneVoice Israel did a great job representing OneVoice in Tulsa Oklahoma, on campuses and community centers, as well as on this TV interview.
Roger Cohen reported about a remarkable group of US statesmen urging a more assertive US role towards Israeli-Palestinian peace… …and recommending specific steps to ensure progress… March 26, 2009 The Fierce Urgency of Peace By ROGER COHEN, NYT Pressure on President Obama to recast the failed American approach to Israel-Palestine is building from former senior [...]
Here is a link to the Opening Plenary at the Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship where I participated: http://www.socialedge.org/features/skoll-world-forum Click on Opening Plenary video Panel discussion starts around minute 36-ends around min 79. Entire plenary agenda below: Musical Performance – Taiko Meantime, An enthralling show combining traditional Japanese rythms and techniques with eclectic, original [...]
Roger Martin, Dean at the Rotman School of Management at University of Toronto, gave an interesting presentation at the Opening Plenary at the Skoll World Forum today: Whether or not Barack Obama is your President or, as is the case for me, another country’s leader, most of you, I suspect, watched the President’s inauguration speech [...]