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Promoting unity among people of faith (or no particular faith) in the 21st Century.

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Chabad community welcomes all to plaza center

February 3rd · No Comments · Jewish, The Coastal Star

“We really did try to create that feel,” said Rabbi Leibel Stolik. “We wanted it to be an inviting, warm, welcoming atmosphere, so that people can feel welcome, walk by and feel that everybody and anybody can come in. And this includes Jews and non-Jews as well.” — from my latest InterFaith21 essay in The […]

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Baptists & Muslims? And more: ‘Model Interfaith Dialogue & Unity’ series continues this Sunday Dec. 19

December 14th · No Comments · Bible, Christian, Focolare, Jewish, Muslim, Quran

More scenes: — C.B. Hanif

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Holocaust memoirs hold lessons for us today

November 3rd · No Comments · Christian, Interfaith, Jewish, The Coastal Star

My latest InterFaith21 offering in The Coastal Star: Deborah Lee Prescott is a Christian, who teaches at Palm Beach Atlantic University, a Christian college, but whose passion is to study the memoirs and autobiographies of
Jewish victims of the Holocaust.

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10 Essential Links of Our Time (or at least, recent days)

September 16th · No Comments · Catholic, Focolare, Islam, Jesus, Jewish, Muslim

Who’s afraid of shariah? by Sumbul Ali-Karamali, self-described “pledge-of-allegiance-reciting, California-raised Muslim girl.” Also an attorney with an additional degree in Islamic law — and among the most delightful writers around. Note the additional Essential Links in her penultimate paragraph: So the best thing to do is find out what Islam really is about. Talk to […]

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Rallying with PBAU students to take back religion

September 13th · 1 Comment · Bible, Christian, Extremism, Interfaith, Jesus, Jewish, Muslim

I was invited as one of the speakers for Saturday’s impromptu rally, primarily of  Palm Beach Atlantic University students, whose message was that those extremists and haters who claim to be speaking for our Muslim, Christian, Jewish and other faiths are full of it.

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Fall brings introspection in Jewish faith…

September 11th · No Comments · Interfaith, Jewish, The Coastal Star

Things have been way too busy; am just getting around to posting this link to my latest InterFaith21 essay at The Coastal Star: September is a very busy month in the Jewish faith, and one can learn a lot about the coming holidays from Rabbis Robert A. Silvers and Randall J. Konigsburg.

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From PB Post: ‘Islam, by defintion, rejects terrorism’

August 22nd · No Comments · Catholic, Chiara Lubich, Christian, Focolare, Imam W. Deen Mohammed, Islam, Jewish, Muslim, Palm Beach Post, Prophet Muhammad, Quran, Ramadan

This column also was reprinted in our national newspaper the Muslim Journal. Note the date: Islam, by defintion, rejects terrorism By C.B. Hanif The Palm Beach Post October 15, 2006 As one who grew up rooting for Tarzan and Cheetah to whip up on my Afro-wigged cousins portraying Hollywood’s idea of Africans, I can understand how […]

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Rabbi Michael Lerner: ‘Shame on ADL’

August 5th · No Comments · Islam, Jewish, Muslim, The Palm Beach Post

I really enjoyed talking with Abraham Foxman during his annual visits with The Palm Beach Post editorial board. But you have to wonder if it isn’t time for fresh leadership at ADL national. In any event I agree with Rabbi Lerner, Tikkun Magazine editor, that the Anti-Defamation League badly missed the mosque moment: ADL leader Abe Foxman presented […]

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Nat’l Day of Prayer in Delray: ‘One Nation, Under God, Indivisible, Celebrating Our Unity In Diversity’

May 13th · No Comments · Bahai's, Buddhist, Christian, Delray Beach Interfaith Clergy Association, Hindu, Interfaith, Jewish

The Rev. Waymon T. Dixon, co-president (along with the Rev. Kathleen Gannon) of the Delray Beach Interfaith Clergy Association, in which I participate, has posted on his Facebook page more photos from this year’s heart-warming National Day of Prayer Observance and reception May 6 at the Duncan Conference Center. Kudos to the Rev. Joanna Thompson Gabriel, […]

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1st UU Congregation hosts “The End — Or Is It?”

April 23rd · 1 Comment · Buddhist, Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Unitarian Universalist

On the subject of death and dying from the perspective of various faith traditions, I expected to learn a lot, and I did, from my fellow panelists and other participants in the excellent March 25 program, “The End — Or Is It?” Am just getting around to sharing this link to dozens of my wife’s photos […]

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