Notes & News
NOTES & NEWS Jews and Muslims Breaking Bread Together It's news today when Jews and Muslims cooperate, especially on the politically divided American college campuses of the 1990s. Yet at Mount...
...Modeled after the Jewish Centennial Celebration, the Muskegon African American Centennial Celebration kicks off in January with advice from Kaufman...
...Housed in Eliot House, the college interfaith center, the kitchen serves one dinner each week and a Friday evening dinner every other week...
...I would be dishonest to say that the groups are the best of friends," says Braun, "though there are cross-cultural friendships that were made over dinner...
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...Two students, one from the Islamic Cultural Alliance and one from the Jewish Student Union, manage the kitchen, design the menus and organize a weekly lecture series open to students, faculty and staff at the campus...
...World-class Scholars Continue Dialogue in Muskegon Of 41,000 people in Muskegon, Michigan, about 250 are Jews...
...Rabbi Carolyn Braun, the campus Jewish chaplain, serves as an advisor to the kosher/ haUal kitchen...
...Like Jews, Muslims do not eat pork, and the meat they eat must be slaughtered in a humane manner...
...Initially she noticed that Jews and Muslims ate in separate groups, wary of interacting...
...How, then, has this tiny community, settled in the 1880s by lumberjacks, attracted m preeminent Jewish artists and scholars...
...The Plotkin children and grandchildren underwrote the cost of bringing Judith Hauptman, associate professor of Talmud at the Jewish Theological Seminary, to Adas Israel Congregation in Washington, D. C, for three community lectures: The Seven Wedding Blessings: Integrating Couple and Community, Women's Exemption from the Mitzvah of Procreation and An Alternate Strategy for Decision Making in Jewish Law: Gittin 35a...
...These projects enhance the quality of Jewish life in smaller communities where maintaining Jewish identity is a daily struggle...
...Yet at Mount Holyoke College, a small, elite women's school in central Massachusetts, Jewish and Muslim students have worked together to create a dining hall and a cultural center that serves both communities...
...Although there are disagreements between the groups, the kosher/ haUal kitchen provides the unique opportunity to speak out and to listen while sharing a meal that is in accordance with Jewish and Muslim religious observance...
...After instituting the lecture series on Jewish and Muslim topics, a more cohesive environment has been established...
...Three small Jewish communities—Appleton, Green Bay and Oshkosh—-are also creating Jewish centennial celebrations following Kaufman's model...
...Kaufman offers to advise other communities on how to replicate these programs...
...Esther Plotkin said she was thrilled that her family honored them this way, adding, "We thought this was a wonderful way of celebrating and hope other communities pick up on this idea...
...Judith Wilkenfeld and Ira Plotkin solved this dilemma on their parents'—Harry and Esther Plotkin's—53rd anniversary by sponsoring in their honor a scholar's weekend at the synagogue where the Plotkins have been active members for more than a dozen years...
...Two students, a Jew and a Muslim, conceived of the idea of a joint kosher/ hattal kitchen that follows both Jewish and Muslim dietary restrictions while standing in line at the college dining hall bemoaning the lack of choices that fell within their religious dietary restrictions...
...On October 14, the Jewish-Christian dialogue will continue with Rabbi David Hartman, director of the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem, and Bishop Krister Stendahl, professor of Christian studies at Brandeis University, exploring how Christians and Jews cope with continuity and change in their religious traditions...
...It started in vj^HR 1988 when organizational dynamo Sylvia Kaufman, ¦^^B who received a 1989 moment Community Service ^^Va Award for her work (see August 1989), spearheaded TjSHH the Muskegon Jewish Centennial Celebration...
...Wracking your brain for the perfect words to inscribe on a silver bowl or the consummate luxury getaway for your parents' important anniversary...
...Ae^^^^V Three years later, the West Shore Committee for ^^^/f Jewish-Christian Dialogue, an outgrowth of the Jewish Centennial Celebration, is going strong...
Vol. 16 • October 1991 • No. 5
