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Apply to Present at the 2015 AAR Annual Meeting: Interfaith Work for Racial Justice
American Academy of Religion and Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting State of Formation Panel: Interfaith Work for Racial Justice At the 2015 American Academy of Religion & Society of ... Read More
Elul in the time of Black Lives Matter
This shabbes, Elul starts. Elul is the Jewish month of reflection and preparation that leads us into the High Holidays. For some of us, we begin our process of t’shuvah (repentance) during the ... Read More
Call to Action for a New and Just World Order By Junaid S. Ahmad and Abdul Jabbar
Over the past few decades, “politics” became a dirty word globally, to be left for the corrupt and deceitful. A healthy tradition of interventions by various social and political actors to remedy ... Read More
The Difference Between Religious Diversity and Religious Pluralism
In a previous article I explored how “choice and safety” are the key ingredients in converting de facto religious diversity into religious pluralism, an environment more conducive to transformativ... Read More
The Supreme Court Case You Missed…
While there has been no shortage of discussion surrounding the recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions on such hot button issues ranging from marriage equality to health care, and the environment, one imp... Read More
The Only Terrorist in Israel
The only terrorist in Israel is one of Arab descent. At least, that is how it is portrayed by the media and dominant ideologues to the impressionable public either in a willful or extremely irresponsi... Read More
Tu b’Av: “R/evolution is love” (Assata Shakur)
Tu b’Av (the 15th of Av), celebrated today, follows on the heels of Tisha b’Av (the 9th of Av – clever). Tisha b’Av is the culmination of a period called the Three Weeks –... Read More
What Exactly is “Mutual Recognition”?
The construct of “mutual recognition” is circulated frequently in the interfaith society: nearly every organization I approach as an ethnographic researcher names it as a primary goal. But... Read More
Arab Like Me: Rachel Dolezal and My Anxious Jewish Mask
Am I the Jewish Rachel Dolezal? I was sitting in my East Jerusalem apartment in a Moroccan djellaba, Abdel Halim Hafez warbling from the stereo, sipping mint tea and reading a New Yorker article about... Read More