Word: interfaith
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...Rabbi David Rosen, who heads the American Jewish Committee?s interfaith office, said he was ?disappointed? that there wasn?t a more explicit reference to German responsibility. ?He speaks like [the Nazis] just dropped in out of nowhere,? Rosen said. ?That?s just a little bit facile.? But the rabbi ultimately thinks this pontiff is committed to keeping strong ties to Jews, judging by his presence here and words that were ?saturated with his sense of bonding with the Jewish people...
Your dad was Catholic, your mom Jewish. Did growing up in an interfaith home influence your attitude toward religion? I didn't even know my mom was Jewish until I was 13. I was so traumatized by the Catholic experience that I never thought to ask, "Why doesn't Mom go to church?" Even though I may not have known I was the product of a mixed marriage, I definitely understood that dogma was not a good thing. If they had a dogma, it was that they were always on the side of the little...
...researcher at the Kennedy School of Government, Rahman has recently encountered greater numbers of misinformed students assuming they know all about Islam. “People think they understand Islam through the sound byte culture we’ve got,” Rahman says. He recalls an interfaith discussion group about the Danish cartoon controversy in which some Harvard students asserted confidently that the Muslim theology against representing the prophet Muhammad is a new phenomenon. “They were trying to tell Muslims—me, other Muslim students—what we believe...
...interaction,” says Washington, but institutionally, the two groups stand apart. Their reluctance to join forces, even on an occasional basis, is all the more mystifying considering just how closely they work with other campus religious groups. The CSA interacts with other religious groups primarily through the Interfaith Council. Stein points to the group’s “Belief in Action” event, where members of various religious groups work together on community service projects. Brewer named Harvard Hillel and the Harvard Islamic Society, among others, as the most involved participants in the Council...
...they are “not at all” religious. Some students said that the study highlighted the significance of spirituality. “[The report] shows that spirituality is definitely an important issue to students and faculty across the country,” President of the Harvard Interfaith Council Om L. Lala ’06 wrote in an e-mail. “Though [Harvard] is a secular institution, as it should be, I think the issue of students’ spiritual growth is unnecessarily shied away from,” he wrote. The study also broke...