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interfaith

Especially during Diwali, Hindus may decorate their homes or outside areas with swastikas to symbolize auspiciousness; some, like this one, are made on the ground out of rice flour.
(Photo/Courtesy Hindu American Foundation)
Posted inNews

New state hate crime bill differentiates Hindu swastika from Nazi emblem

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky May 27, 2022November 12, 2023
Second Gentleman Douglas Emhoff, left, speaks with Rashad Hussain at a Muslim Jewish Advisory Council event at the U.S. Institute for Peace in Washington D.C., April 28 2022. (Photo/JTA-Ron Kampeas)
Posted inNews

Doug Emhoff says being the second gentleman brought him closer to Judaism

by Ron Kampeas and JTA May 2, 2022May 2, 2022
The S.H. and Helen R. Scheuer Chapel on the Cincinnati campus of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (Photo/JTA-Ady Manory)
Posted inUncategorized, Opinion

Want more Reform rabbis? Stop turning away Jews in interfaith relationships

Edmund Case by Edmund Case and Forward March 30, 2022March 30, 2022
All Americans do Easter, right? .... Right? (Photo/piqsels.com)
Posted inJewish Life

Christmas and Easter are American holidays — aren’t they?

Dawn Kepler by Dawn Kepler March 15, 2022
Rabbi Camille Angel at the University of San Francisco's Lone Mountain Campus. (Photo/Lea Loeb)
Posted inBay Area

Meet the rabbi ‘queering’ religion at Jesuit Catholic USF

Lea Loeb
(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Lea Loeb February 11, 2022February 12, 2022
(Photo/Pixabay CC0)
Posted inMixed & Matched

The kids are all grown up … and now I want Christmas!

Dawn Kepler by Dawn Kepler February 10, 2022
Michael Pappas, executive director of the San Francisco Interfaith Council, addresses the Colleyville hostage crisis in a speech delivered from the bimah at Congregation Emanu-El on Jan. 21, 2022. (Screenshot)
Posted inUncategorized

Interfaith leader: Why I stand with Colleyville’s Jews

by Michael Pappas February 3, 2022February 4, 2022
Imam Omar Suleiman hugs Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker after the rabbi’s release from being held hostage at Congregation Beth Israel synagogue, on Jan. 15, 2021. (Photo/RNS-Asra Khan)
Posted inOpinion

11 hours of prayer and solidarity at the Colleyville synagogue standoff

by Omar Suleiman and RNS January 19, 2022
An interfaith group of clergy gathered at Good Shepherd Roman Catholic Community in Colleyville, Texas, to support law enforcement and the families of those taken hostage in the 11-hour standoff Jan. 15, 2022, at Congregation Beth Israel. (Photo/RNS-via Twitter)
Posted inU.S.

As rabbi was held hostage, interfaith colleagues gathered to help end the standoff

Yonat Shimron by Yonat Shimron and RNS January 18, 2022
Joan Gelfand's daughter and son-in-law on their wedding day in Berlin.
Posted inOpinion

How God showed up to our daughter’s interfaith wedding in Berlin

Joan Gelfand by Joan Gelfand December 16, 2021December 16, 2021

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