April 2016
Violence-Free, Resilient Communities
Transforming Culture through Healing Resources We all play a role in creating violence-free, resilient communities. Join us for a special community awareness program to learn what is needed for our community to thrive, despite ongoing challenges, and how we can help address the needs. People from the faith community, medicine, behavioral health, justice and law enforcement communities are invited to join together in learning from two panels of experts and our multi-disciplinary conversation. Panel 1: Understanding Trauma and the Cycle…
Find out more »Muslim/Jewish Halaqa-Seder: A Celebration of the Exodus Story
Join us for dramatic reenactments of scenes from the Exodus Story from Muslim and Jewish scriptures followed by engaging interfaith table conversations and a halal/kosher dinner among Muslim and Jewish members of South Bay communities. Last year’s event was sold out. Register online at ing.org/events/muslim-jewish-halaqa-seder-a-celebration-of-the-exodus-story/ At last year’s event, a group of Muslims and Jews gathered in Palo Alto on Sunday, March 29th, 2015, for a one-of-a-kind Seder and Halaqa that looked at scenes from the Exodus story from the…
Find out more »May 2016
County Holocaust Remembrance: Child Holocaust Survivors
The theme of the annual County of Santa Clara Holocaust Remembrance Ceremony for 2016 is Child Holocaust Survivors: Refugee Experiences. Michael Thaler, Marie Donner and Asher Engler, local child Holocaust refugees, will share their stories of trauma and resilience. Cantor Stephen Guggenheim will perform vocal selections. Archbishop Mitty High School students will speak about what they have learned from these childhood refugee stories. Sponsored by Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors, the Office of Supervisor Dave Cortese, the Community Relations…
Find out more »October 2016
Yes on 62 Interfaith Service
Download a flyer: yeson62flyer Bring your friends, neighbors, family and co-workers to a spirited gathering in support of ballot proposition 62 which abolishes the death penalty in California. Jews, Muslims, Christians, Jains, Hindus, Zoroastrians and others will gather at Trinity Cathedral in San Jose, to pray together and to sign a joint statement. We are putting our faith into action--acting on our sense of compassion and on our belief in the sanctity of life. We believe there is no crime…
Find out more »A Conversation about Israeli-Palestinian Peace Prospects
A conversation about Israeli-Palestinian peace prospects, with Maen Rashid Areikat, Ambassador to the Palestinian Delegation to the United States, and Jeremy Ben-Ami, Founder & President of J Street. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is one of the most complex and polarizing conflicts in modern history. Nearly seventy years after the foundation of Israel and fifty years since the beginning of the occupation of Gaza and the West Bank territories, the struggle between Israelis and Palestinians seems to be as far as ever…
Find out more »January 2017
International Holocaust Remembrance at San Jose City Hall
On January 27, 1945, Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest Nazi death camp, was liberated. In 2005, the United Nations declared January 27 International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Council members Chappie Jones and Sergio Jimenez, with Mayor Sam Liccardo, will present a proclamation to local survivor Tamara Noten, during the Ceremonial Items at the beginning of the council meeting. The community is invited to the council chambers for this brief but moving ceremony. On the 10th year of this international remembrance, we especially remember…
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