On June 26th, Cordoba House Sunday School organized a jubilant Eid picnic at Battery Park for children and grownups from the Cordoba House community. The festivities included a traditional Eid Takbir, with Music Instructor Mustafa Ulmer adding a creative musical touch playing shakers, tambourines, and West African drums with the children. There were also a variety of entertaining magical shows and group activities for children, such as face-painting, kite flying, basketball, as well as a soccer ...
The Vitality of Diversity
World’s Top Religious Leaders Issue a Call: Make Friends!
In a new video, the world's top religious leaders have come together to issue a simple, yet very important interfaith call to action: make friends with people of other faiths! Getting to know members of other religions is one of the best ways individual people have for building peace and growing understanding. As the Dalai Lama says: "Personal contact, personal friendship, then we can exchange a deeper level of experience." READ MORE AND WATCH THE VIDEO (Huffington Post) ...
A Rabbi, Reverend, and Imam Have an Interfaith Plan for Middle America
A rabbi, a reverend, and an imam have a plan to bring interfaith cooperation and education to middle America. Called the Tri-Faith Initiative, the project, launched in 2006 and funded through donations, will involve the construction of three houses of worship side by side in Omaha, Nebraska. Currently, a new synagogue and mosque are already built, and construction crews are readying to build a new church. According to Rabbi Aryeh Azriel, the former senior rabbi at Omaha's Temple Israel, whose ...
Good Samaritan Returns Wallet, Citing Muslim Values
