The Center for Jewish-Christian-Muslim Understanding, Inc.

Text Box: Fall 2007 Events: "Asking Tough Questions:  A Conversation with the Children of Abraham," October 25 at Fordham University, Tarrytown, NY - 7:00pm "Let Us Open the Ears of Their Hearts", November 18 at Hudson Valley Writers' Center, Sleepy Hollow, NY - 4:30pm Please refer to details below

 

Asking Tough Questions:

A Conversation with the Children of Abraham

 

The Center for Jewish- Christian - Muslim Understanding

Cordially invites you

to

Dinner and Dialogue

 

Thursday, October 25, 2007, 7- 9:30PM

Fordham at Marymount : RSHM Dining Room: Rita Hall

100 Marymount Avenue, Tarrytown, NY 10591

 

Speakers:

 

Rabbi Marc Gellman, The God Squad, Senior Rabbi of Temple Beth Torah, Melville, NY

Father Patrick Ryan, S.J., VP Mission and Ministries Fordham University

Imam Kareem Adeeb, American Institute for Islamic and Arabic Studies

 

Text Box: For all three faiths Abraham is the model of human responsiveness to God. What was Abraham’s legacy to the world? What should ours be? What do our traditions ask us to do and to be for the good of the world? Please join three distinguished religious leaders as they reflect on these questions and come to Abraham’s table for a delicious middle-eastern meal and lively conversation.

 

 

 

 

 


 

This event is co-sponsored by the Westchester Jewish Conference

 

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To reserve your place at Abraham’s Table send $50.00 per person. Please send and make checks payable to:

 Center for Jewish- Christian- Muslim Understanding, Inc

15 North Broadway, Irvington, NY 10533 *914-591-8194

 

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LET US OPEN THE EARS OF THEIR HEARTS

Poetry readings from the Golden Age of Andalusia

 

Andalus . . . might be here or there, or anywhere . . . a meeting place of

strangers in the project of building human culture. . . .

It is not only that there was a Jewish-Muslim co-existence, but that the fates

of the two people were similar. . . .

Al-Andalus for me is the realization of

the dream of the poem.

           —Mahmoud Darwish

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sunday, November 18, 2007

4:30 p.m.

The Hudson Valley Writers’ Center

300 Riverside Drive, Sleepy Hollow, NY

 

 

Text Box: Note:  The Hudson Valley Writers’ Center, our co-sponsor, requests a small fee at the door: $3 for members of the writers’ center; $5 for non-members. For more information, please call (914) 332-5953 or visit info@writerscenter.org    

 

 

Text Box: The Center for Jewish-Christian-Muslim Understanding is proud to present an afternoon of glorious poetry readings from the Golden Age of Hebrew and Muslim poets. In southern Spain a thousand years ago, Jewish and Muslim poets reached a pinnacle of aesthetic splendor. On Sunday, November 18, 2007, at the Hudson Valley Writers’ Center in Sleepy Hollow, we invite you to hear both Jewish and Muslim voices in the poems of Peter Cole and Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore. Mr. Cole is an American poet who lives in Jerusalem. He has garnered much praise for The Dream of the Poem: Hebrew Poetry from Muslim and Christian Spain, 950-1492. Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore, also an American, became a Sufi Muslim in 1970. He has read his poetry to a wide variety of audiences at such places as the United Nations, the University of Chicago, Duke University, and the American University at Cairo, Egypt.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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