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us build trust,
relationships, and partnerships among neighbors, citizens,
and immigrants of different
faiths and cultures
Ongoing Dialogues
Feb. 5 – Queens – Ahmydia Muslims, Queens Community of Cultural Judaism and you! Public Dialogue:
Connecting Across Differences – with Haifa Bint Kadi, (Palestinian Muslim American) and Marcia Kannry (Jewish American Israeli)
Location: 188-16 McLaughlin Avenue, Holliswood,Queens
(188th Street and Grand Central Parkway- Bus #Q17 stops right by the door)
Feb. 8 - Planning Committee for City Wide Teach In– Join us!
Topic: Approaching the 10th Anniversary of 9/11- Exploring Community Trauma, Conflict Transformation, and Inclusion and Exclusion in our Traditions
Mid- East Dialogues –
Participation by application. For more information please call the number below.
Feb. 9 – Manhattan
Feb. 13 – Brooklyn
Feb. 18 - Westchester
Call The Dialogue Project at 718-768-2175 for more information.
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Interfaith 2005 and 2006 Highlights and Pictures
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Our 2006 our 5th Annual Interfaith Teach-in
event was dedicated to the memory of dialoguer Isabel Slater.
An active member of Our Lady of Angels parish in Bay Ridge,
Brooklyn Isabel the first person to volunteer for any project
that promotes better communication and understanding. She
also volunteered for the School for the Deaf. She is sorely
missed. Over 120
people gathered at Good Shepherd Lutheran Church to study
and talk. Topics included: The role of women in our text;
Ideas on weath and poverty in each faith tradition; and what
role do the prophets have in our faith traditions.
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Linda Sarsour
of the Arab American Association learns about women in Hebrew
texts from Rabbinic Intern Tom Gardner of Brooklyn Heights
Syn. and Rabbi Barat Ellman.
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Monsignor Guy Massie
of St. Andrews Roman Catholic Church compares ideas of Jewsih
prophets and Catholic understanding.
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Fr. Khader and Grace
El-Yateem of Salam Arabic Lutheran Church speak with
Muslims and Jews about the role of women in the Christian
Arab Church.
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Rabbi
Jeff Marker, a Rabbinc Chaplin, finds that Ahmed
Saleh from Egypt is interested in the prophets
in Judaism. |
Imam Samer Alraey engages a table of Jewish and Christian particpants about the purpose of the prophets in Islam. |
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Rev. Daniel Meeter of
the Park Slope Old Reform Church raises issues about the
rich and the poor in Christian texts, and Marcia Kannry,
Dialogue Project Founder, helps reflect a point.
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Rabbi Barat Ellman
emphasises a point about Women's in roles in Jewish texts. |
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Sister Sara Sayeed, Ph.D. Adjunct Professor
of Communcation at Barouch College, engages participants
in ideas about the role of women in the texts in Islam.
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Rabbi Micah Kelber
of the Bay Ridge Jewish Center explores Jewish ideas
on wealth and poverty from Jewish legal texts. |
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The 2005 Interfaith Event was
Held at Grace Episcopal Church in Brooklyn Heights.
Interfaith leaders engaged particpants
in round table discussions on the issues of justice, Jerusalem
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John Kemp of St. Andrews, Eric Hollander
of Park Slope Jewish Center, and others signing up for our
fourth annual interfaith event at Grace Church
this September.
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| Erica
Hawkins signing- in guests in the Grace Church courtyard.
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Imam
Omar Namous and Rabbi Simka Weintraub sharing a blessing for
the event. |
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Rabbi
Simka Weintraub reflecting with
Rabbi Micah Kelber . |
Pastor
Khader El-Yateem leading a discussion with his brother-in-law
Jonathan Khutab, a legal activist. |
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Vice President Tom Cox |
Reverend
Meeter leading a disucussion. Linda Sarsour sits to the left.
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Hamid
Abdeljaber speaking with a participant. |
Interfaith
co-chair Eddy Ehlichman |
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