DI participated the celebration of 10th Interfaith Awareness Week at rotunda in the Wisconsin State Capitol in Madison. The Dane County executive, Madison’s mayor, and Middleton’s mayor have all signed proclamations declaring Dec. 9-15, 2007 Interfaith Awareness Week. The week deliberately coincides with Human Rights Day (Dec. 10), a day created by the United Nations [...]
Fast Breaking Dinner was held at Lutheran Campus Center on 6:00 pm.
The evening started with presentations about the month long Muslim observance of Ramadan and the Jewish harvest holiday of Sukkot, which both follow the lunar calendar and happen to coincide this year. It was a great evening and a chance to share food and ideas.
DI members and all guests had a wonderful Ramadan Fast Breaking Dinner at Multicultural Student Center. Turkish food was served.
Whirling Dervhishes of Rumi from Turkey at Wisconsin Union Theatre. BISMILLAH It’s a habit of yours to walk slowly. You hold a grudge for years. With such heaviness, how can you be modest? With such attachments, do you expect to arrive anywhere? Be wide as the air to learn a secret. Right now you’re equal [...]
Madison, WI – Monona Terrace Community and Convention Center Program: 5:45 pm – 6:00 pm Opening Remarks 6:00 pm – 6:40 pm Keynote SpeechesDr. Scott Alexander Director of Catholic-Muslim Studies at Joseph Cardinal Bernardin Center for TheologyDr. Marcia Hermansen Professor of Theology at Loyola University 6:40 pm -7:20 pm Dinner Service 7:20 pm -7:50 pm [...]
Ramadan & Thanksgiving Celebration
Madison, WI – Monona Terrace Community and Convention Center Anthony (Nino) Amato, the former member of the UW Board of Regents and former Chair of the Task Force on Race Relations, was among six speakers who addressed attendees at the 4th Annual Dialogue Dinner, which was held November 11 at the Monona Terrace Convention Center, [...]
Madison, WI – UW Mills Concert Hall, Humanities Building Mawlana Jalaladdeen Rumi, or Rumi for short, a spiritual master and poet of the late 13th century, has enjoyed enormous popularity in the U.S. recently. Whirling Dervishes of Rumi from Turkey performed one of the most exquisite ceremonies of spirituality, a mesmerizing seventh-century old ritual, incredible [...]
Fast Breaking Dinner (Iftar)
