Alison Cies
By Alison Cies
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Culture Muslims and Jews: Fostering Respect, Bridging Cultural Differences
When a new venture at Columbia University brought together 30 Muslim and Jewish entrepreneurs from the United States, the United Kingdom and France for a cross-cultural dialogue, the focus was on something other than interfaith work. They talked business. Then, somewhere amid the conversations about best business practices and social entrepreneurship, the difficult issues of…
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Life France’s Highest Honor Goes to Annie Cohen-Solal
The Legion of Honor, an award conceived of back in 1802 by Napoleon Bonaparte, was bestowed on writer and historian Annie Cohen-Solal today at France’s consulate in New York. Cohen-Solal, who would become a preeminent authority on intellectual life in France during the 20th century, was born in pre-independence Algeria; she was among the tens…
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Life Israel-Friendly Group Banned from Trade Union Conference
Those living on the other side of the pond were struck with confusion this week when UNISON — Britain and Europe’s largest public sector union, with more than 1.3 million members — prohibited Trade Union Friends of Israel (TUFI) from attending its annual conference in Brighton, which wrapped up Wednesday. TUFI has attended this conference…
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Breaking News Conservative Judaism Searches for Identity
Conservative Judaism, struggling with decades of declining membership and an abrupt, sweeping change in its senior leadership, heard a call in early June from three prominent rabbis for a rethinking of its mission. The three rabbis, New York-based and all under 45, launched their broadsides from the stage of a packed auditorium at the Jewish…
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Life Rabbis Without Borders Inaugural Meeting this Month
Rabbis Without Borders, an initiative to make Jewish wisdom accessible to a wider audience by creating a network of interdenominational religious leaders, meets for the first time this month. The program, started by the National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership (CLAL) will host the principle investigator of the 2001 American Religious Identification survey, Professor…
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Life Black Female Rabbi Soon to be Ordained
Saturday will mark a new era for the Jewish community as the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati ordains mainstream Judaism’s first African-American female rabbi, Alysa Stanton. According to a report issued by the Institute for Jewish and Community Outreach in San Francisco, twenty percent of the Jewish population in the United States,…
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