WASHINGTON — A few months of scrambled economic data have not altered the Federal Reserve’s basic view that the American economy is gaining strength, nor its intention to start pulling back soon from its stimulus campaign, the Fed’s chairman, Ben S. Bernanke, said Tuesday evening. Mr. Bernanke, in a speech with […]
Wednesday, November 20 at 7:30pm ET: Israel and Palestine. Misinterpretations of holy scriptures. These are two of the overarching issues Rabbi Marc Schneier and Imam Shamsi Ali believe drive a wedge between Jewish and Muslim communities. The authors of ‘Sons of Abraham’ join us to talk about what unites and […]
By Richard Engel, NBC News Chief Foreign Correspondent KABUL – While many Americans have been led to believe the war in Afghanistan will soon be over, a draft of a […]
(Reuters) – The Obama administration said on Tuesday that budget negotiators in Congress would probably fail to strike a far-reaching deal unless Republicans agree to raise revenues and overhaul the tax code. A 29-member congressional committee is trying to set spending levels for the fiscal year that began last month, […]
By Barton Gellman and Ellen Nakashima, Published: August 31 washington Post U.S. intelligence services carried out 231 offensive cyber-operations in 2011, the leading edge of a clandestine campaign that embraces the Internet as a theater of spying, sabotage and war, according to top-secret documents obtained by The Washington Post. That […]
Part 2: For two decades, the U.S. military has been unable to submit to an audit, flouting federal law and concealing waste and fraud totaling billions of dollars LETTERKENNY ARMY DEPOT, Chambersburg, Pennsylvania – Linda Woodford spent the last 15 years of her career inserting phony numbers in the U.S. […]
Source: China Daily JERUSALEM – US Secretary of State John Kerry will travel to Israel on Friday to discuss a proposed deal between world powers and Iran on the Islamic Republic’s nuclear programme, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday. Netanyahu has condemned a proposal, endorsed by Washington, to […]
An intensive two-day Leadership Training Conference, sponsored by the Universal Peace Federation of North America, was held Friday and Saturday, Nov. 15-16, at the Embassy Suites Hotel in El Segundo, CA. The UPF is an interfaith-based outreach organization dedicated to bringing together people from various religious, social service and educational […]
Source: Yahoo By GILLIAN MOHNEY and ANTHONY CASTELLANO | Good Morning America – 57 minutes ago Search and recovery operations are underway after severe storms and tornadoes wreaked havoc on the Midwest, killing at least six people and injuring dozens more after powerful winds flattened homes and decimated much of the town […]
by Hamid Dabashi Hamid Dabashi is Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. On the evening of November 13, I flew back from Gwangju, South Korea – where I was invited to participate in Gwangju Biennale – to JFK airport in New York. Upon exiting […]
How It Works The Religious Health-O-Meter evaluates the overall health of America’s eleven largest religious organizations by comparing combined factors related to happiness and devotion. Each religious organization was ordered from highest to lowest by percentage of membership that meet the requirement in six categories. Each religion was scored on […]
Posted by: Shaahima November 18, 2013 in Featured, Marriage, Society MUSLIMMATTERS.ORG When it was confirmed that I was to be married and the dates for the event set, family members […]
Vancouver Sun: ……………. Most of us have, at times, experienced the unusual state of spiritual or artistic awareness that many handily, but incorrectly, associate with the right brain. That state […]
Source: The Conservative Papers: Analysts at a recent forum on the downward trends in marriage and religion in the United States agree that the two are not isolated phenomena but, in fact, influence and exacerbate one another. Brad Wilcox, director of the National Marriage Project, has shown that family dissolution is linked to […]
by John Hall THE INDEPENDENT It’s a question pondered by philosophers, scientists and the devout since the dawn of time: is there an afterlife? While the religious would argue that life on earth is a mere warm up for an eternity spent in heaven or hell, and many scientists would […]
Source: nola.com One of the oldest chapters of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in the country on Saturday celebrated the grand opening of its brand new Kenner community center, in a celebration studded with […]
The Buffalo Chapter of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community will hold its twentieth interfaith conference on Sunday November 17th, 2013 between 2:00 – 5:00 pm at the Millennium Hotel, 2040 Walden […]
By Greg Smith and Alan Cooperman Pew Research Center American Jews have been debating the impact of intermarriage for decades. Does intermarriage lead to assimilation and weaken the Jewish community? Or is it a way for a religion that traditionally does not seek converts to bring new people into the […]
By JAMES BARRON Published: November 15, 2013 David N. Redden recited the opening of the 23rd Psalm the way he had memorized it as a child: “The Lord is my […]
Source: NY Times. DETROIT — After a two-week investigation, the prosecutor here charged a white suburban homeowner on Friday with second-degree murder in the killing of an unarmed young black woman. The prosecutor rejected the man’s assertion that he had been acting in self-defense when he opened his front door […]