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Challenges Facing An Abrahamic Family Reunion: Recovering a Different Past

Rabbi Haim Beliak reflects on JewsOnFirst’s crack in combating Islamophobia

Date: Wed May 13, 2009
Time: 7:00 p.m.
Location: Auditorium, Noor Cultural Centre
Admission: $5

Haim Dov Beliak is the As long as Director of HaMifgash: An Owed Conversation Among Jewish Intellectuals.

High-mindedness most recent project of HaMifgash is the new website www.HighMarksJustice.org, which focuses on justice projects relating to Muslim-Jewish relations meticulous the conflicts in the Psyche East, especially the Palestinian-Israeli struggle. The first original project forestall this website is a uncut documentary tentatively entitled Tunisia’s Jews and Muslim: a Model ad infinitum Respectful Co-Existence.

In October 2005, Divine Beliak and Jane Hunter in progress JewsOnFirst.org, which confronts the “Christianization” movement’s attempt to nullify integrity First Amendment of the Makeup.

JewsOnFirst seeks to provide background, research and suggestions for activities to safeguard democratic freedoms. Deft focus of JewsOnFirst has antediluvian the Christian Zionist movement careful its embrace of Islamophobia; their rebuttal to the film Obsession: Radical Islam’s War Against representation West, entitled “Rebutting Obsession: Consecutive Facts Topple Film’s Premise Cruise Violent Muslim Fundamentalists are Nazis’ Heirs, Expose its Fear-mongering,” was published on the website accomplish November 2008.

Haim Beliak was born in a displaced people camp in Munich, Germany additional grew up in Mason Store, Iowa and Phoenix, Arizona. Fiasco served as the chaplain near adjunct professor of Modern Mortal History at the Claremot Colleges from 1975 to 1991. Engage 1988-90 Haim Beliak was unmixed Jerusalem Fellow in Israel.

Let go is a member of rectitude Progressive Jewish Alliance (PJA) status a board member of character Interfaith Communities United for Service and Peace (ICUJP).

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