NEWS STORY
RNS-Abraham-Exhibit: With interfaith exhibit, Boston’s Abrahamic faith groups revisit their shared roots
BOSTON (RNS) – The city’s historic Episcopal cathedral is working with local Jewish and Muslim leaders to host a new interfaith art exhibit illustrating religious patriarch Abraham’s journey through the eyes of Middle Eastern artists from Muslim, Christian and Jewish backgrounds. Interfaith organizers are also launching an accompanying book study focused on Sarah and Hagar. By Aysha Khan. 1,363 words. (category: a)
COMMENTARY
RNS-Salkin-Oped: God’s Uber driver in Pittsburgh
(RNS) — In a modern-day Hasidic story, an Uber driver and a rabbi connect over the driver’s father’s experience liberating the Nazi concentration camps, a chance but ordained encounter that is known in the Jewish faith as bashert. By Jeffrey Salkin. 1,000 words. (category: k)
COMMENTARY
RNS-Rudin-Oped: In the sacred stillness of Arlington National Cemetery
(RNS) — Paying respects to his parents’ grave, a visitor to the cemetery recognizes the enormous price in military dead America has paid, and continues to pay, for our freedom. By A. James Rudin. 950 words. (category: k)
