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#16 On being an Arab-Jew in a Zionist world: how anti-Zionist Jewish mystic Hadar Cohen navigates conflicting identities while honouring her faith
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Hadar Cohen is an Arab Jewish scholar, mystic and artist whose work focuses on multi-religious spirituality, politics, social issues, and community building.
She is the founder of malchut, a spiritual skill-building school teaching Jewish mysticism and direct experience of god. she teaches and consults in a variety of settings and formats, from one-on-one coaching to online group classes and in-person retreats.
Her podcast, hadar’s web, features community conversations on spirituality, healing, justice, and art. Hadar is a 10th-generation Jerusalemite with lineage roots also in Syria, Kurdistan, Iraq and Iran.
Listen in to hear Hadar speak about:
- Growing up in the tragically divided city of Jerusalem
- What identifying as an Arab brings Hadar, and what it also takes away
- Why she loves Judaism but hates Zionism
- What Jewish pain is and why the harm inflicted by the Israeli state against Palestinian is a betrayal of it
- Why breaking the cycle of pain between Israelis and Palestinians requires first the recognition of the pain
- What spiritual maturity is and why it is needed in order to witness someone else’s pain while not abandoning your own
- Why not doing personal healing work can cause long-term societal harm
- Why we must learn to hold space for one another within the Arab community - whatever your religion
- How the embracing of Hadar's Arab-Jewish identity could be an example of an alternative vision for the future of Israeli/Palestine
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