Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2013, 7:30 p.m.
Jewish Theological Seminary
3080 Broadway (at 122nd St)
New York City
This multi-faith panel of “elders” will discuss how multi-faith
communities have influenced social justice over the past two
decades, what are the current issues being addressed, and what is
still to be accomplished. [...]
by Joshua Stanton
At a moment when I would otherwise be reviewing Yom Kippur teachings and preparing spiritually for the most sacred day in the Jewish calendar, I instead feel called as an American Jew to respond to the abominable, Islamophobic advertisements in the New York City subways.
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
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