On Sunday, December 18, 2016; a model for a cohesive America was unveiled with a handful of volunteers at the Thomas Jefferson Memorial in Washington, DC, the nation’s capitol. Eventually this model can become an anti-dote to prejudices against people of different faiths, races, cultures and ethnicities. A few pictures from the event: https://www.flickr.com/photos/mikeghouse/sets/72157674321116443/show America is…
F. BRIAN FERGUSON | Gazette-Mail Jennifer and Leon Ronen, of Cross Lanes, play with their daughter, Ophira, and son, Noam, at their home earlier this week. Not pictured is their youngest son, Ari. The interfaith couple celebrates Hanukkah and Christmas, which overlap this year. On the mantel in Leon and Jennifer Ronen’s Cross Lanes home, garland and…
Sean and Hayley Magee, with children Norah, 4, and Alex, 6 months, are an interfaith family who will be celebrating both Christmas and Hanukkah this year. (Phil Anderson/The Capital-Journal) Like many interfaith families, Sean and Hayley Magee, of Topeka, have had to make some decisions on how they and their children will celebrate the holidays…
“The interfaith study centre was set up to find commonalities between religions. At any given time, there are about three to four students at the Centre, both from Delhi and abroad,” said Malekar. Rabbi Ezekiel Malekar at Judah Hyam Synagogue. Oinam Anand Behind the navy blue gate on Humayun Road, Ezekiel Malekar, Delhi’s only Jewish…
Malegaon: Started as a noble cause and an appreciable initiative to bring smile on the faces of poor and marginalized, mass marriages and wedding ceremonies, though a norm across the globe, are mostly organized nowadays as an event to garner political mileage and publicity. Worst, at some of such events, couples are subjected to humiliation and…
Can a Muslim Woman Marry a Non-Muslim Man?Dr. Mike Mohamed Ghouse Fully researched 5534 words article that explains the Quranic verses heretofore interpreted as No to marrying a non-Muslim man are addressed at https://interfaithmarriages.org/can-a-muslim-woman-marry-a-non-muslim-man/ If you are a Muslim woman considering marrying outside your faith, please read the well-researched chapter in 6000 Words – in the…
By Shahla Khan Salter Recently, Junaid Jahangir wrote a blog arguing that Muslim women can marry outside the faith. Junaid quoted 10 modern-day authorities and mentioned that Universalist Muslims and a few other organizations who are seated outside the traditional Islamic establishment, serve the Muslim community by connecting interfaith couples, who consist of Muslim women and non-Muslim men, to Muslim officiants who…
By Professor Junaid Jahangir He created for you mates to find tranquillity in them; and He placed between you affection and mercy ~ 30:21 Last month, CBC reported the news of an interfaith couple, Shaaz, a Muslim woman, and Jarred, a Jewish man, who live in Airdrie, Alberta. While they found a Cantor, they were unable to…
(JTA) — “Switched At Birth” Has Broken The Mold For A Show That Some Might Have Dismissed As A Teen Drama. The Series, Which Premiered On ABC Family (Now Freeform) In 2011, Is About How Two Families Handle The Discovery That Their Two Teenage Daughters, Bay Kennish (Vanessa Marano) And Daphne Vasquez (Katie Leclerc), Were…
He created for you mates to find tranquillity in them; and He placed between you affection and mercy ~ 30:21 Last month, CBC reported the news of an interfaith couple, Shaaz, a Muslim woman, and Jarred, a Jewish man, who live in Airdrie, Alberta. While they found a Cantor, they were unable to find an Imam for…