"Muslims in Brooklyn" is a new oral history project at the New York Historical Society that seeks to document the Muslim past and present in Brooklyn, New York. Launched last year, the project’s participants come from a variety of ethnic backgrounds – including African-American, Yemeni, Palestinian, Moroccan, Kashmiri, Bangladeshi, Tatar, Haitian and Puerto Rican – and from 18 different Brooklyn neighborhoods. They range from 24 to 74 years of age, from unobservant to conservative Muslim and ...
The Interfaith Dialogue Was Good, but the Food was Even Better
Messages of Love and Support
When a Muslim child in Boston, Massachusetts received hateful threats in her school cubby, people from across the United States responded in an amazing and inspiring way: by sending her more than 500 letters of love and support! Many of these letters came from members of the American Jewish community, who wrote in solidarity. READ MORE (Religion News Service) ...
Interfaith Work and Promoting Human Rights
Finding Family, Faith, and Immigrant Roots
Lipka Tartars are descendants of Muslim Turkic migrants who settled in the Duchy of Lithuania in the 14th century. During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, at the height of immigration to the United States from Southern and Eastern Europe, Lipka Tartars traveled to the U.S. alongside their Christian and Jewish neighbors and formed a tight-knit immigrant community in Brooklyn. Over the years, as people aged and moved away, the community has fragmented. But, now a collection of American ...
