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JANUARY 2019
Kivunim meets with His Holiness the Dalai Lama
His Holiness the Dalai Lama's interactions with gap year students from the USA and Israel at his residence in Dharamsala, HP, India on January 28, 2019.
JANUARY 2018
Kivunim students in 50-minute private audience with His Holiness, the Dalai Lama
For many of the past years Kivunim has journeyed within India to the Tibetan community in exile in Dharamsala. In 2018, in annual preparation for the visit, Geshe Tenzin Damchoe, one of the Dalai Lama’s disciples and a professor at the Institute of Buddhist Dialectics in Dharamsala came to Jerusalem to teach our unit on Buddhism. His visit added a powerful dimension to our already sincere and deep relationship to the Tibetan Buddhist community. Upon our arrival in Dharamsala, we were informed that His Holiness wished to meet with our students and this video, taken by his technical staff, allows you to share in this profound, gentle, and historic event.
JANUARY 2018
Founder, Peter Geffen, on Why Kivunim?
Peter Geffen, Founder of KIVUNIM and The Abraham Joshua Heschel School in New York, has devoted his career in Jewish education to elevating Jewish identities informed and driven by social justice, creating educational models in which knowledge of Jewish communities around the world propels individual and collective growth and community building for next generations.