I walked the  Peace Walk last year and it was really interesting and fun. I highly recommend it for those who believe that people of different faiths and different life experience can enjoy mutual respect and friendship.

Every year the walk covers a new neighborhood. Last year they went from Sunset Park to Park Slope stopping in at Beth Elohim and concluding at the Brooklyn Society for Ethical Culture, where there was an excellent program of poetry, speeches and a VERY delicious buffet dinner.

This year they’ll start on East 19th Street and end up at Sheepshead Bay. And I’m sure there will be delicious dinner.

So think about joining the peace walk.

This year’s Children of Abraham Peace Walk is on Thursday, June 10 from 4-7PM. In the spirit of peace, Jews, Christians, Muslims and people of other religious persuasions, walk and stop at stop at various houses of worship. They will conclude at the building site of a new mosque.

The group will be supporting the emergence of this new faith community while deepening their interfaith connections
and spreading the message that here in Brooklyn there is interfaith friendship and respect.

I’ll drink to that.

The walk begins at: St. Mark’s Church, 2609 East 19th Street (corner of Ocean Avenue & Avenue Z.
Subway: B/Q to Sheepshead Bay Station) in Brooklyn. The group will walk south along Ocean Avenue to the water of Sheepshead Bay.

They will then make a left on Emmons Avenue (after crossing Emmons) to the marina. At Bedford Avenue the group will turn left onto Bedford, then right on Voorhies Avenue.

The walk ends at the proposed building site of the mosque, 2812 Voorhies Avenue (about a quarter mile, near 28th St.).
Refreshments will be served. All ages welcome.