OBAMA AND THE SPIRIT OF THE AGE: A CONVERSATION
President Obama at the Lincoln Memorial This is a conversation on the Religion and Ethics Newsweekly of PBS that I wanted to share with you. Here is the link to the video, and...
View Article“Lehman Sisters, Yes We Can!”
A REPORT BY DR. KATRIEN HERTOG International Women’s Conference Celebrates Women’s Leadership Bangalore, 6-8 February 2009 “If the Lehman Brothers would have been ‘Lehman Sisters’,...
View ArticleBLESSED ARE THE PEACEMAKERS: Women Cleaning the Mess Men Have Made of the...
Elana Rozenman and Ibtisam Mahmeed THIS LETTER FROM ELANA ROZENMAN: February 26th, 2009 TRUST- WIN visit to “Cordoba” school, Hebron The ongoing conflict between the Israelis and...
View ArticleHuffington Post Article about Ariyaratne, Leading Gandhian Buddhist Leader of...
I met Aryaratne over twenty years ago in Cambridge, had a wonderful dialogue with him about Buddhist and Jewish approaches to compassion. Laurence Simon of Brandeis University, my...
View ArticleIslam’s new kartinis
“None but a noble man treats women in an honorable manner. And none but an ignoble treats women disgracefully.” - The Prophet Muhammad (At-Tirmithy) Last year, I was approached by...
View ArticleThe Iranian Yalda And The Fateful Choice Of Light Over Darkness
Just a few days ago was the longest night of the year. Another way of looking at is that this was night in which the tide of darkness began to turn back in favor of light. Bunched...
View ArticleGive Pardes a chance – Israel News | Haaretz Daily Newspaper
Gopin, who has been a primary adviser and occasional co-instructor, calls the center “revolutionary” in that it may be “the only place in the world [where] a Jewish center of...
View ArticleWhen Catastrophe Strikes – Think Again
An excerpt from my recent Huffington post blog post about how individuals, nations, and religion cope with catastrophe: “I have seen my share of tragedy in the work I do, I have...
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