What is the the Qur’an? An Agnostic Jew Speaks. Lesley Hazelton at TEDx

What It’s Like To Be An Entrepreneur – Eboo Patel « crowdSPRING Blog. We’re thrilled to be part of a new web/TV reality series – Trep Life – giving audiences a unique, 360-degree view of what it takes to succeed as an entrepreneur. Each episode focuses on one company or organization. The first episode featured our friends Matt Maloney and Mike Evans from Grub Hub – a terrific place to find every restaurant that will deliver to you. Subsequent episodes featured Lara Miller, a designer and Executive Director of the Chicago Fashion Incubator, serial entrepreneur Howard Tullman, Redbox Founder Mark…

Growing up Muslim-American in an age of Islamophobia | Pop and Politics. But passions over Islam in America became truly inflamed when Terry Jones, pastor of the Dove World Outreach Center threatened to burn copies of the Koran to commemorate the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The Pop and Politics crew arrived in Gainesville, Florida on September 10th, a day before the the planned burning. In the midst of the worldwide media maelstrom, we met the Qamar family, moderate Muslims trying to convince their fellow Americans that being Muslim does not equal being a terrorist.

Faith in the Roots: Stories from the Field, reporting out from the first year of the Community Organizing Residency Date: Wednesday, March 9, 2011 Time: Noon – 1 pm Eastern/ 9 – 10:am Pacific Registration: Register for this event. Registration is required by March 7. No fee. Date: Wednesday, March 9, 2011 PRESENTERS: Joshua DuBois, Special Assistant to the President and Executive Director of The White House Office of Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships Rachel Feldman, Director of Organizing, Jewish Funds for Justice Rabbi Lizzi Heydemann (Jewish), organizing resident at IKAR Susana Lopez (Christian), organizing resident at United Power for Action…