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Religious Toleration and Religious Diversity
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Do You Have the Courage Not to Hate?
All these thoughts led me to a revised message for the back window of that car. One that might make an impact.
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Check the Memo: Embracing Religious Diversity Is Good For Your Bottom Line
More and more companies, large and small, are recognizing the value of embracing the faiths of their clients and staff.
Faith Communities Come Together to Pay Tribute to Queen Elizabeth II
I have never met Queen Elizabeth II, but I won’t lie her death has broken me. By being such a relentless source of inspiration, acceptance, and an object of pride, the Queen became a guiding compass to people of all faiths in the UK and across the Commonwealth.
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Lighting a Candle for Diversity this Hanukkah
We prosper in the presence of diversity. It is our understanding and appreciation of our differences that is the foundation of that prosperity.
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Celluloid, Cigarettes and Religion
It was the early 90s and we were sitting in a dingy film editing room in Encino, California. I looked over at Steve, who’d just asked me the question. He was a fellow film editor; we’d both met earlier that day when our boss, Fima, had pointed to stacks of film reels and told us in his thick Russian-Yiddish accent, “We have three film to cut, I don’t care who cuts which one.”
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Connecticut’s First Ever Sikh City Councilman Shows Us How to Build a Better America
The idea that every group, every religion, every individual can come together and contribute to their community by putting the needs of the entire community first is, for me, what America is all about.
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Hispanic Heritage Month: Celebrating Centuries of Prejudice Overcome
This month we are reminded of the importance of Hispanics, how far they and we have progressed from the dark days of Columbus and the conquistadors. We are reminded that enough is indeed enough and that the time is now to learn from their cultures, their experience and their history—for by learning about them, we can’t help but learn more about ourselves.
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How to See People for Who They Really Are
This lawyer wanted my friend to make a generalization about two groups of people rather than allow her to judge the case by the individuals concerned.
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Increased Tolerance: The Apple Pie Method
One day when I was a kid, my mom brought an apple pie home from the bakery. This was a rare occurrence in our sugar-rationed household and therefore a very big deal to me. I, personally, had an open-door policy on sugar.
