Join author and Jewish social activist Or Rose (Hebrew College) and Christian pastor and national interfaith leader Samir Selmanovic as they explore together the role of personal narrative in interfaith work. Their dialogue will be moderated by a panel of scholars from State of Formation, a community of emerging religious and ethical leaders committed to [...]
A coalition of religious and civil liberty groups is pushing the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to stop employers from segregating “visibly religious employees from customers and the general public.”
In a March 25 letter submitted to the EEOC, the groups asked the agency to “exercise its regulatory authority” and enforce Title VII of the Civil [...]
It was billed as the first-ever congressional hearing on the civil rights of American Muslims. But it played more like an Act II than a premiere.
In many ways, the hearing led by Senate Democrats on Tuesday (March 29) was the dramatic antithesis of one House Republicans held earlier this month on homegrown Islamic radicalism.
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Lately, Congress appears to be obsessed with Muslims.
Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., is holding hearings Tuesday (March 29) on “Protecting the Civil Rights of American Muslims,” and Chairman Peter King has announced a second set of hearings on “Radicalization in the American Muslim Community” in the House Homeland Security Committee, this set focusing on radicalization [...]
WASHINGTON, March 28, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The Justice and Society Program at the Aspen Institute and the Interfaith Youth Core will host an invitation-only conference, America the Inclusive at the Institute’s Washington, D.C. offices, onMarch 30.
Growing out of concern over the increasingly polarized conversation about religious diversity in the media and the public arena, the Conference will focus on [...]
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