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Confusing Common Sense with Cultural Sensitivity– Are We Staring into the...
A friend of mine recently brought to my attention an article originally published April 2, 2007 in the The Daily Mail which revealed the following highly disturbing trend among teachers in England:...
View ArticleHand in Hand Update– New Students, New Campuses, Continued Growth
Amin Khalaf, co-founder of Hand in Hand, the groundbreaking, highly successful, bilingual Jewish-Arab school system that educates close to 1,000 students in Israel, reports on the achievement of...
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Why We Need to Find Common Ground With Islam Through Education
Babar Ahmed is a talented up-and-coming movie director ("Royal Kill") and the son of Professor Akbar Ahmed, who first taught me about the history of Islam at the Aspen Institute‘s Socrates Society....
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Religious Pluralism Scores a Major Victory in Israel– For Jews
Over the past three years, I have posted multiple times on the subject of religious discrimination and intolerance BETWEEN JEWS in Israel. In America, this is a widely under-reported problem which, in...
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Unaffiliated But Not Agnostic– The Number of Americans Outside of Organized...
The New York Times reported today on the latest Pew Research Center demographic survey on religion in America. Highlights from the report– * Over 16 percent of American adults say they are not part...
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Blaise Pascal On Man’s Ability to do Evil in the Name of Faith
‘Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction’. Blaise PascalFrench mathematician, physicist (1623 – 1662) My namesake is also known for Pascal’s...
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Democracy in America Revisited– Defining America’s Current Political Identity...
You can’t stretch a shared political identity so far that it becomes overly abstract and therefore impossible for people to articulate in a way that everyone can easily understand it. Think of this...
View ArticleIrshad Manji from the Aspen Ideas Festival on Ijtihad and Interfaith Marriage...
Irshad Manji comments on the positive power of Ijtihad, the ancient tradition of critical thinking in Islam, and the importance of contemporary Muslim imams in justifying Muslim interfaith marriage.
View ArticleMajor Victory for Jewish Religious Pluralism in Israel: Reform and...
Congratulations to the Israel Religious Action Center for their tireless efforts! This is a big deal! I am the product of an inter-faith marriage, and my mother completed a Reform conversion in Canada...
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Field Report From Israel: Things Are Changing, Watch Events at the Western Wall
It’s different this time. Why? Because in Israel the reality of demographics is catching up with those who previously believed that wishful thinking makes for sound public policy. It’s hard to...
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