Month: November 2011

Events Inter-faith

EVENT: Atheists Announce Initiatives, Host Interfaith Dialogue at Park51

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On Tuesday, November 15th at 7:00 PM (EST), the Humanist Chaplaincy at Harvard will hold an event hosted by Park51 and Center for Inquiry NYC , in partnership with a wide swath of NYC-based organizations, to discuss communities for the nonreligious and the role of atheists in interfaith work, while launching two groundbreaking new initiatives: The Humanist Community Project, and Values in Action at the Humanist Chaplaincy at Harvard. … This event will be co-sponsored by the Harvard Humanist Alumni and major NYC-based atheist, religious, and LGBT organizations: GLAAD (Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation), New York Society for Ethical Culture , HUUmanists , The Humanist Institute , Ethical Humanist Chaplaincy at Columbia University , Reasonable New York , Faith House Manhattan , World Faith , Groundswell , Auburn Seminary , Journal of Inter-Religious Dialogue , Bronx Community College Secular Humanist Club .

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Ten Years After Patriot Act, Time to Restore America’s Freedoms – Muslim Advocates

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Ten Years After Patriot Act, Time to Restore America's Freedoms – Muslim Advocates. Muslim Advocates released a report on the tenth anniversary of passage of the USA Patriot Act. Losing Liberty: The State of American Freedom 10 Years After the Patriot Act illustrates how the law opened a new era in which federal law enforcement erodes America's cherished freedoms and wastes precious resources. In the report, which includes a forward by former Senator Russ Feingold, Muslim Advocates sets forth concrete steps Congress and the President should take to amend the law and uphold our nation's founding freedoms, which are guaranteed…

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Inter-faith

Muslim cab drivers rescue New York City’s oldest Jewish bagel bakery from closing, plan to keep it kosher – NY Daily News

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Muslim cab drivers rescue New York City's oldest Jewish bagel bakery from closing, plan to keep it kosher – NY Daily News. The oldest Jewish bialy and bagel shop in New York City is being rescued by two Muslim cab drivers — and they plan to keep it kosher.  Coney Island Bialys and Bagels — founded in 1920 by Morris Rosenzweig, a Jewish immigrant of Bialystok, Poland — was about to go out of business until two unlikely proprietors saved it.  Zafaryab Ali and Peerzada Shah said the first bagels and bialys they ever tasted when they immigrated here from…

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