Rami Avraham Efal on Clubhouse

Bio

www.ramiefal.com

RAMI AVRAHAM EFAL, Israel-born, is a dharma holder in the Zen Peacemakers Lineage and student of the late Zen Buddhist teacher Bernie Glassman. Avraham has been practicing meditation since 2005 and has lived and trained for four years at Zen Mountain Monastery and the Zen Center of New York City. He is the former executive director of Zen Peacemakers International and has organized and co-led the Bearing Witness retreats in Auschwitz-Birkenau and the Native American Bearing Witness programs. Today, Avraham is the Rabbinic Fellow at Lab/Shul, an artist-driven Jewish ritual community, and offers secular, Jewish and Buddhist spirituality with cross-cultural peace-building practices, nonviolent communication, art-making, and contemplative creativity in New York City & internationally. He is a contributing associate at Justlabs, a global think-tank re-envisioning human rights, and a board member at Greyston Foundation for thriving communities and dismantling obstacles for employment in southwest Yonkers, New York. He currently undergoes rabbinic and cantorial training with the Aleph Ordination Program.

Author & illustrator of the Ignatz Award Nominated original graphic novel The Lantern and the Wave