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Proposed Muslim Community Center near Ground Zero: Let’s Have the Right Conversation!

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , on May 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Over the weekend, I posted an opinion piece on Huffington Post about the controversy surrounding “Cordoba House,” the proposed community center and mosque to be built in lower Manhattan.You can read it here. Over 300 people have taken the time to post comments, and I am sorry to report that much of the conversation is [...]

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Progressive Jews Studying Traditional Texts: But Why?

Posted in Uncategorized on March 16, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Today’s ReligionDispatches carries an article by Professor Aryeh Cohen of the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies of American Jewish University.  Cohen does a great job of showing that there is, indeed, a sea change in the Jewish world in the relationship between traditional text study and progressive politics. My experience in American Jewish communities, dating [...]

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Haiti: A Philadelphia Religion Professor’s Reflections

Posted in Uncategorized on January 27, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Professor Terry Rey, the Chairman of the Religion Department at Temple University, has close personal ties to Haiti. He recently published his reflections in a local newspaper, The Philadelphia Daily News. I have read many commentators on this issue, but Terry’s thoughts were particularly meaningful and provocative. Thank you, Terry, for taking the time to [...]

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Samir Selmanovic’s Daughters: Don’t Buy His Book!

Posted in Uncategorized on December 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

This video is worth watching. Really.

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The Gift of Gaining a New Perspective

Posted in Uncategorized on December 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

The Philadelphia Jewish Exponent published an op ed this week in which I shared the gift of learning I gained from studying the Joseph story from a Muslim perspective. You can read it here.

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Clear Thinking on Fort Hood

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , on December 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Professor Husssein Rashid, who will be teaching Islam at RRC this spring, had a very thoughtful post on ReligionDispatches regarding the recent killings at Fort Hood. Read it here.

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City College of New York Jewish Studies Department: A Multifaith World

Posted in Uncategorized on April 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Next  spring, if all goes as planned, I will teach a course in the  Jewish Studies Department at City College of New York.  My rabbinical  and graduate school classmate, Rabbi Roy Mittelman, chairs this extraordinary department, and he has offered me an opportunity to see what is going on there first hand. City College of [...]

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A Weekend of Peacebuilding

Posted in Uncategorized on April 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Sometimes the most contentious conversations are not interfaith but rather intrafaith. Even within a self-selected small community like a congregation, we sometimes find it hard to talk with one another in a respectful, dialogical manner. That is why this past weekend at Congregation Mishkan Shalom(JRF) in Philadelphia was so wonderful. Mishkan Shalom was founded 21 [...]

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Amos Oz reflects on empathy and the “other”

Posted in Uncategorized on April 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

You may be seeing Amos Oz,  perhaps  Israel’s most esteemed novelist,  mentioned often these days. The celebration of his seventieth birthday this year is providing an occassion for reflection on his life’s work as novelist and  public intellectual. In a recent New York Times’s article, Oz is quoted as relating both of his callings to [...]

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