On Friday, February 9, 2018, Imam Feisal delivered his first khutbah at the East End Temple (EET), which has begun hosting Cordoba House Jumu'ah prayers. Cordoba House is actively seeking new khatib participants for this weekly program. The February service followed a class the previous evening at the Temple, taught by Imam Feisal and EET’s spiritual leader Rabbi Josh Stanton, on Jewish-Muslim relations. The rabbi and other members of the synagogue community attended the Jumu'ah service. Imam ...
Imam Feisal and Cordoba House at the L’Chaim Prize
Imam Feisal and Cordoba House took part in the annual L'Chaim Prize presentation in January. Rabbi Erica Gerson and her husband, Mark Gerson, a businessman and entrepreneur, founded the prize and give $500,000 each year to different Christian medical missions selected by a panel of local and American medical professionals, who assess where the money is most badly needed. A group of imams, Protestant ministers, rabbis, Catholic priests, and other people of faith gathered at a restaurant that is ...
Cordoba House Hosts Eid al-Fitr Prayers and Picnic
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 ...
Imam Feisal: Reflecting on Alienation during Ramadan
We enter Ramadan reflecting on the tragic loss of life in Manchester. We pray for the souls of the victims, for the recovery of survivors, and for strength of heart for all the families affected. There is small comfort in efforts to understand the terrorist mind, but perhaps some hope for the future lies there. The evils we understand we can perhaps avert. In a recent op-ed piece for the New York Times, columnist David Brooks used an illuminating word: alienation. Under the title for his ...