1. Marc Gafni is the president of the Center for Integral Wisdom, which he co-founded with Ken Wilber, and he is the co-founder and co-president of the Office for the Future.
21 Facts About Marc Gafni
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Marc Gafni is the author of Radical Kabbalah and Your Unique Self: The Radical Path to Personal Enlightenment, which won USA Book News Awards in 2012.
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In recent years, Marc Gafni has continued to be a polarizing figure.
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Marc Gafni co-founded the Center for World Spirituality, later the Center for Integral Wisdom, with support from prominent figures like Ken Wilber and John Mackey.
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Marc Gafni Winiarz was born in 1960 to Holocaust survivors in Pittsfield, Massachusetts.
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Marc Gafni was educated at Modern-Orthodox yeshivas in the New York City area.
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Marc Gafni majored in philosophy as an undergraduate at Queens College and earned his Doctorate in Philosophy from Wolfson College at Oxford University.
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Once in Israel, Mordechai Marc Gafni served as rabbi of the West Bank settlement of Tzofim.
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Marc Gafni received Orthodox semikhah from Rabbi Shlomo Riskin and Renewal semikhah from Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi.
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Marc Gafni did a series of weekly television spots with Israeli comedian Gil Kopatch on biblical wisdom for everyday life.
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Marc Gafni described himself and his students as "dual citizens" of both their native traditional religion and the broader themes of "world spirituality".
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Marc Gafni wrote an essay, "A Hundred Blasts Shatter the Somber Silence", which appeared in Arthur Kurzweil's Best Jewish Writing 2003.
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Marc Gafni denied the relationship was abusive, describing it as consensual.
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The Bayit Hadash co-founders and other prominent leaders expressed that they felt betrayed by how deeply Marc Gafni had misled them as well as regret for having supported him.
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Integral Life, one of Marc Gafni's promoters, deleted his contributions from its website and announced that it was distancing itself from him.
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Marc Gafni wrote Radical Kabbalah, a two-volume work published by Integral Publishers in 2012.
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In January 2016, Judy Mitzner said that she was one of two teenage girls whom Marc Gafni allegedly molested in New York City in 1986.
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Marc Gafni reiterated those assertions on the Dr Phil show of January 19,2018, in which Gafni appeared.
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Mitzner was 16 and Marc Gafni was 24 and he was her Jewish Youth Leader at the time.
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The article was in response to a New York Times article about Marc Gafni the preceding week.
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In 2017, Marc Gafni published A Return to Eros: The Radical Experience of Being Fully Alive, co-authored with Kristina Kincaid.