New York’s interfaith leaders have termed last summer the “Summer of Intolerance.” Negative bloggers sparked a heated national debate about a Muslim-run community center in Lower Manhattan that went far beyond laws regarding private property and religious institutions and invoked two intolerable questions: can Muslims truly be American — and if so, will Muslim Americans [...]
In “The Death of Ivan Ilyich,” Leo Tolstoy scathingly wrote of a protagonist whose life was “most ordinary and therefore most terrible.” Such may also be said of the ruling put forth by Tennessee judge Robert Corlew, who made the unremarkable determination that “Islam is a religion,” thereby permitting the
In this video, Joshua Stanton – a Rabbinical student at Hebrew Union College and the editor of the Interreligious Dialogue journal – speaks about the positive impact that his mentor Eboo Patel has had on him. Watch it HERE
On Sunday, May 15, a diverse group of 150 New Yorkers met for the 9th Annual Dialogue Project “Interfaith Teach-In,” held at the Borough of Manhattan Community College. The program, “Approaching the 10th Anniversary of 9/11,” began with Christian, Jewish and Muslim songs performed by the Peace of Heart choir, which formed in response to [...]
The tenth anniversary of September 11 is in just four months. Plans for commemorative ceremonies, gatherings, and memorial services are underway. But how we understand 9/11 is still far from certain ten years later.
Fears and pain remain; two (or, arguably three) wars are still underway; misconceptions and generalizations about Islam remain pervasive. We also [...]
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