Interfaith Respect has long been a goal of the Upper Peninsula EarthKeeper Team in northern Michigan.
On June 4, 2009 President Barack Obama said in Cairo, Egypt that people from different religions should respect each others faiths:
The richness of religious diversity must be upheld ... faith should bring us together..
The nonprofit Cedar Tree Institute in Marquette, MI presents a video series from a wide range of faiths.
We started with three videos featuring Muslim Imam Hassan Qazwini.
We continue with a look at the Jewish faith with Dr. Michael Grossman of Temple Beth Sholom, Ishpeming, MI.
Imam Hassan Qazwini, head of the Islamic Center of America, spoke on Oct. 22, 2008 at the Lutheran Campus Ministry Lothlórien House in Marquette, MI.
Interfaith Respect 1-3:
Imam Hassan Qazwini talks about his life
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwR0Mu8KUNg
Imam Hassan Qazwini on Iraq War, other issues
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cR61fxKJrq4
Imam Hassan Qazwini explains Islam, respect for women
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gC8VvLTN9OI
Dr. Grossman joined faith leaders from other religions in a April 23, 2009 address to NMU students during Sacred Planet lecture series sponsored by the EarthKeeper NMU Student Team.
Interfaith Respect series includes:
Dr. Rodney H. Clarken, chair of the Local Spiritual Assembly of the Bahais of Marquette
Head Priest Reverend Tesshin Paul Lehmberg of the Lake Superior Zendo, Soto Zen Buddhist temple, Marquette
Lutheran Bishop Thomas A. Skrenes of the Northern Great Lakes Synod for the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
Catholic EarthKeeper team member Kyra Fillmore, seedling distribution coordinator for the EarthKeeper Tree Project during May 2009:
United Church of Christ Rev. Dr. George Cairns of Chesterton IN co-founder of the nonprofit Turtle island Project, a research professor with the Chicago Theological Seminary.
The EarthKeeper Initiative is co-sponsored by the Cedar Tree Institute, Superior Watershed Partnership and 10 faith communities: Catholic, Episcopal, Lutheran, Presbyterian, United Methodist Church, Unitarian Universalist, Baha'i, Jewish, Quakers, Zen Buddhist.
President's remarks about respect for womens rights:
I reject the view of some in the West that a woman who chooses to cover her hair is somehow less equal, but I do believe that a woman who is denied an education is denied equality.
Our daughters can contribute just as much to society as our sons, and our common prosperity will be advanced by allowing all humanity men and women to reach their full potential.
U.P. EarthKeeper Team:
http://www.upearthkeepers.org
Nonprofit Superior Watershed Partnership in Marquette, MI
http://www.superiorwatersheds.org
Nonprofit Cedar Tree Institute in Marquette, MI
http://www.cedartreeinstitute.org
Rabbi Hillel:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillel_the_Elder
http://rabbihillel.com
http://www.jewfaq.org/sages.htm
Rabbi Hillel artwork reproduced with cooperation of the Arthur Szyk Society in Burlingame, CA.
http://www.szyk.org
http://www.szyk.org/szykonline/hillel.html
1-650-343-9588 (office)
1-650-579-6014 (fax)
info@szyk.org
Thanks Allison Chang, Society Coordinator for the Arthur Szyk Society
allison at szyk.org
Zohar:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zohar
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Judaism/Zohar.html
Wikipedia Zohar drawing:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Zohar.png
Title page, first edition Zohar, Mantua, 1558 Library of Congress copyright expired.
Kabbalah:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabbalah
Tree of Life (Kabbalah):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_of_life_(Kabbalah)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Tree_of_life_wk_02.svg
Town of Safed (home of Jewish Mystics)
http://jewishmag.com/1mag/safad/safad.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safad
Wikipedia photo of Safed, a northern Israel city, by Beny Shlevich (Volland), May 29th, 2006.
Permission granted to copy, distribute, modify document under GNU Free Documentation License
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Safed1.jpg
Hebrew Scriptures (Old Testament) 11th century manuscript of the Hebrew Bible with Aramaic Targum image used under Creative Commons
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrew_Bible
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Targum.jpg
Previous vids Imam Hassan Qazwini:
Religions, people have few differences:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGCkCE85Dfk
Selfish humans abuse Earth:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8lj0RBo-LM
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