CONGRATULATIONS IN THE 10th ANNIVERSARY OF IFLAC! To ADA AHARONI
> President of IFLAC International and to all of you, sisters and
> brothers, a fraternal hug, one to each one, and some verses from my
> soul
> Ernesto
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> Prof. Ernesto Kahan, International vice president of IFLAC, June 28,
> 2009 the day of 10th anniversary of IFLAC
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> IFLAC 10 YEARS OLD
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> A minute dedicated to peace
> is a river of pure water,
> an accumulation of kindness...
> A walk slowly.
> To close the eyes and smile.
> and to look at the people around
> in each particle of their lifeג€¦
>
> Oh, to stay apart from narcissism
> and to give through peace!
> Oh, if all!
> An instant to giveג€¦
> An hour a day a year
> Oh, 10 years to give for peace!
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> IFLAC, house and space,
> growing stream
> and intertwined hands,
> poetics words of love,
> dreams with a fly in freedom,
> respect and bread,
> philosophical thoughts,
> music, encounters,
> desperate searches
> ALELUYAH! For Peaceג€¦
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> IFLAC in the continents
> IFLAC love in the tongues,
> Toleranceג€¦ Liberty.
> Tireless IFLAC
> Happy birthday of 10 years in link!
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> Cheers! IFLAC beloved
> Cheers for its constant give!
> Cheers my sisters and brothers!
> You have given me your love!
> Let go, walking,
> smoothing the route
> to the universal peace
> I love you!
>

Dear IFLAC Members Friends,
IFLAC is 10 years! THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR WARM GREETINGS TO IFLAC!

Here are some highlights from our 10 years of MUTUAL EFFORTS in spreading the Culture of Peace throughout our global village:
Number of published online IFLAC Digests: 2,200.
10 iflac WEBSITES: 4 in English, 2 in Spanish, 3 in Hebrew, and one in Romanian
Visitors to our IFLAC sites: 100,909.
5 successful International Conferences
6 Peace Culture Festivals (the next one to celebrate 10 years to IFLAC in 2010)
> Ongoing Literary and Cultural Activities in our IFLAC Branches worldwide.
> Wonderful feedback below from friends all over the world sent to our IFLAC
Guestbook.
> 3 IFLAC Videos on YouTube.
> May this 10th year of our mutual efforts be the best of all, and
every year after it still more successful and rewarding than the one
before!
With much love and keen hopes for our mutual efforts to sprout fast and spread a flourishing global Culture of Peace, and to promote a harmonious world beyond war, violence, terror and famine.
Ada Aharoni
IFLAC Founder - President

Dear Ada,

Congratulations on the 10th anniversary of IFLAC! It has been an honour to serve as webmaster of your homepage all these years. It has given me the opportunity to read through much of your poems and books, to make a selection and present it on the web.

Two of my favourite poems are THIS CURSED WAR and REMEMBER ME EVERY TIME THE MOON RISES OVER THE SPHINX, that you wrote, inspired by diaries found on fallen Israeli and Egyptian soldiers during the Yom Kippur War in 1973.

As you say in your article The Power of the Poem and Peace Through Poetry, "In every conflict there are two stories. The Poem of Peace has the wonderful ability to understand both sides, and to present both sides in all its reality, pain, hope and yearning for peace."

Happy birthday, IFLAC!

Warm regards,
Solveig
Webmaster of Ada's homepage at www.iflac.com/ada

A selection of Ada's poems: www.iflac.com/ada/poetry.html

You doing a great work for Peace! Keep this up.. You're appreciated!

10 YEARS SINCE THE FOUNDATION OF IFLAC
Each year paved the way to Peace, brighter and clearer, thanks to the efforts and work of the IFLAC, initiative of this GREAT WOMAN OF PEACE,Prof.ADA AHARONI.
GRATITUDE and CONGRATULATIONS FOR THE GREAT WORK DONE IN SERVICE OF MANKIND.
MAY PEACE PREVAIL ON EARTH!

Dearest Ada,
Congratulation for the tenth Anniversary of IFLAC.Your are Our Hero of Peace and Im a faithful devote to your work and words. From this distance place I will continue spreading your work through bridges of love to nurture Peace and harmony in Literature's works. So much Love, respect and admiration to you!!
Susana Roberts
Vice-Presid.Iflac-Argentina.

CELEBRATION OF IFLAC'S TEN YEARS!
28 JUNE 1999 - 2009.

Dear ADA,

10 YEARS TO PEACE IFLAC HAS DEDICATED
TODAY IS INDEED AN OCCASION TO REJOICE
a "PEACE UNIVERSAL" IFLAC HAS GENERATED

THAT BRINGS TOGETHER PEACEBUILDERS FROM EAST AND WEST
WHO CAN ENGAGE IN PLANNING NEW CULTURES FOR PEACE
AND PAVE ARTISTIC WAYS THAT WILL BE HUMANIZINGLY BEST

IFLAC, MAY YOUR MISSION BE SUCCESSFULLY CARRIED ON
SO THAT MORE PEOPLE CAN CONTRIBUTE TO YOUR WISDOM
AND COOPERATIVELY C0MPOSE THE ULTIMATE PEACE SONG

Francisco Gomes de Matos, a peace linguist from Recife. IFLAC Delegate for
Brazil

Hi Ada,

I'm looking for a way to say congratulations for your wonderful IFLAC: The International Forum for the Literature and Culture of PEACE - and wish you health and happiness, in Hebrew it is simply mozeltov.

Thank-you

Best regards

Tim Robb

I only came across your site while looking for Hebrew translations.

Dear ADA


I send you my warmest congratulations for a thousand visitors to your website
WWW.IFLAC.COM
and thousands of messages at your IFLAC DIGEST

Dear Prof. Ada Aharoni

Thank you so very much for your feedback and your wonderful response!
I will get back to you with the finalized wiki very soon. I am so looking forward to hearing from people and sharing thoughts, reflections, and experiences with such an amazing array of people!
And thanks so much for passing this on to others in your group, and in the world!
For a world full of peace,
Amanda
Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T

From: "iflac"
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 23:01:08 +0300
To: amanda holmes<tokalasa@gmail.com>
Subject: online critical book group

Dear Amanda,

I congratulate you for your original online critical book group project,
when you give us the address of the Wiki, I will try to answer your
questions more profoundly. But for the moment, I would like to stress
that children's literature, films and videos can do a great deal in
educating for love instead of hatred, peace and justice,instead of violence and war, and in overcoming prejudice, racism and sexism, and lack of respect for the culture of others..

I suggest one of my books for children on this subject,titled: THE PEACE FLOWER (www.amazon.com). I hope you can include it in your list of books.
You can read about it on amazon. It has been translated into many languages, and is used in several schools around the world for teaching peace, love and justice to children.
You are warmly invited to
visit the IFLAC site at: www.iflac.com
and my own Homepage at: www.iflac.com/ada

With all best wishes for your worthy project
Ada Aharoni

To: Prof Ada Aharoni and Members of Iflac

On the occasion of the Passover/ &#1508;&#1462;&#1468;&#1505;&#1463;&#1495; festival, I wish you (and yours),
as well as to the HSJE Committee, all the very best of
happiness, good health, peace and many returns.

ON behalf of the HSJE and our Members

Desire Sakkal


HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF JEWS FROM EGYPT
PO BOX 230445
Brooklyn, NY 11223
Fax 718-998-2497
email: info@hsje.org
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FROM OUR PREAMBLE
This organization shall be known as HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF JEWS FROM EGYPT,
and not of Egypt or of Egyptian Jews, but FROM EGYPT for the purpose will be
to include all our co-religionists whose lineage have sojourned in the
Jewish Communities of Egypt.

The aims of this society are to preserve, maintain, coordinate the
implementation, and to convey our rich heritage to our children and grand
children's, using all educational means at our disposal to bring into being
the necessary foundations.
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Dear Ada,
THE HOSTESS WITH THE MOSTEST!
Once again you have 'wowed' me! You WOWed me with your wonderful
hospitality, the wonderful view from your marvelous home, your beautiful
flower arrangements, the Swan poem in the photography book...AND:

I don't know if you noticed, but your poem [From Haifa to Cairo] totally
blew me away. I wrote down the quote you mentioned from Sadat [I was
already living in Israel by then!], and when you read your poem, my eyes
swelled up with tears when you got to the phrase "soldier sons". It was all
I could do to keep myself from bursting into tears from emotion, and you may
have noticed I was wiping my eyes after you read it.

I don't know how you do all the wonderful things you do. I totally admire everything about you and wish you continued success in everything you do.
Thanks again for a memorable evening.

Love
phyllsie

There’s something we should do

That’s not been done
Something we can win
That’s not been won
Something we can SHOUT OUT
To end all their brutal war games
IT IS Peace

Dear. Ada

How are u ? How is everything in Israel?
I would like to know how do i join your organization .. and want to learn more about it ..Hope to visit again someday. I fell in love with Israel when I was there Plz write back ..

hugs .. Luis Pereira

My dear new friend Ada Aharoni,
Thank you so much for responding my email. You can not imagine what does a truthful word to my soul. It could make my tear "clean my eye" but , more importantly, it could nourish my mind, heart and soul with some pure oxygen that I keep on chasing every now and then.

I'm thankful to the [genius] people of the web[site] for making my contact with good people like you, dear Ada, possible!

Thank you so much for inviting me to write some of my modest thoughts on IFLAC. I do not know if I deserve it !

Your kind request to link my "little garden" JFJAW to IFLAC made me feel happy. I'm flattred. Thank you so much for your trust!

Attached, sending you some detailed lines about what I do in general so we can both share ideas on how we can combine our efforts to 1 - promote the value of Peace in the Region/Globe for our right to a sane life 2 - make
our common mission i.e. IFLAC's petition and JFJAW finds ears at the world's leaders for a real reconciliation.

Until I receive your thoughtful feedback, please accept my dear friend, Ada, my warmest regards.

[Smile For Peace!

______________________________

From Maria Cristina Azcona at 8:42pm February 14
DEAR ADA, CONGRATULATIONS!
What a mountain of books!
You certainly are building bridges for peace!

From Ada Aharoni at 8:52pm February 14
Dear Maria,
Editor of IFLAC in Spanish

With wonderful friends and colleagues like you , the building of the peace through bridges of culture and literature becomes a joy at every rocky climbing of this gigantic PEACE MOUNTAIN.

With love and warm wishes,
Ada

Dr. Ada Aharoni

Dear Ada,

I'm so delighted to have your support and participation in the Worldwide Meditation for Peace.
If only we could get our leaders to embrace peace as well. What a different world this would be.
I hope you are well. I'm sure you are working as hard as ever to bring about peace.
Thank you, thank you, thank you for all you do.
I miss you.

Peace and love,
Rose

Poetry, my dear friends, is a sacred incarnation of a smile.

Poetry is a sigh that dries the tears.
Poetry is a spirit who swells in the soul,
whose nourishment is the heart,
whose wine is affection.

Poetry that comes not in this form is a false messiah.

~Kahlil Gibran~

2 February 2009, Shruti Nagar said… Dear Ada,

I just read your beautiful poems on our Space for Peace Room and I am so deeply touched. It's the thought that we all share and you have weaved it into words to amazingly.

Joining you in the prayer for peace
Shruti