This is a good news story involving Jews, Palestinians and the Middle East. LendforPeace.org is a brand new not-for-profit Internet platform that allows individualsĀ to make small loans to specific micro-entrepreneurs in the Palestinian Territories. Their mission is to use micro-lending to promote economic opportunity and political stability in the Middle East. At LendforPeace.org you [...]
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LendforPeace.Org: Penn Undergraduates Launch Interfaith Effort
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#February 18, "Finding God in the Other," Samir Selmonovic, Faith House Manhattan, 11:05 a.m. at RRC (for RRC community) #March 19th, "The Big Questions in Science and Religion," Keith Ward, University of Oxford, open to the public, more info at www.metanexus.net #April 1, "Jewish Education and Neuroscience," Adi Flesher, 12:30 p.m. (open to the public with reservations, email mheller@rrc.edu) #April 26, "Sacred Texts Trialogue," Lutheran Theological Seminary(open to the public, see www.Ltsp.edu/trialogue for more information) #May 6, Salon conversation, "Praying with Your Feet," Kristyn Komarnicki, editor of Prism: Evangelicals for Social Action (for RRC community)