Employees at the tech company Cisco have started an Interfaith Network to support and celebrate religious diversity on their team! Watch a video about this initiative below.
On Fighting Bigotry
Read this engaging piece by Rabbi Joshua Stanton of New York’s East End Temple about how the Jewish community can work to counter bigotry, which includes a mention of the work Cordoba House does with our interfaith friends and partners—such as Rabbi Stanton and East End Temple!
Building New Interfaith Alliances
In this current time of heightened tension and bigotry, Muslims and Jews in cities across the country are coming together to form new interfaith relationships. This is especially true in Minnesota, where the Muslim and Jewish communities participate in a variety of interfaith activities, from official mosque-synagogue partnerships, to roundtables and events, to shared holiday gatherings, and even to joint legislative alliances.
Reaching Out in Charlottesville
After the events in Charlottesville, Virginia this summer, in which white supremacists rallied and ultimately killed a counter-protestor, this Virginia Muslim group is hoping to unite and build bridges with their local interfaith community.
Muslim Students Create App to Track Anti-Muslim Incidents
More than two years after the murders of Muslim University of North Carolina Chapel Hill students Deah Barakat, Yusor Abu-Salha, and Razan Abu-Salha, UNC Chapel Hill’s Muslim Student Association has launched an app to document instances of Islamophobia on and around the campus. Called Project Mawla, the open-source, Web-based app released last December allows students and residents of Chapel Hill to document anti-Muslim incidents. According to its website, Project Mawla was created as a “counterpoint to the systemically supported notion that Islamophobia neither exists nor affects the livelihood of American Muslims.” While it is unfortunate that such an app is necessary, we commend these students for developing this innovative way to track and catalogue instances of bigotry.