Monthly Archives: May 2005

Dialog in Canada

The Canadian Jewish News covered a public discourse between “Prof. Judea Pearl, father of slain Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl and Akbar Ahmed, an award winning international relations professor.” I heard lots of times in interfaith dialog setting that … Continue reading

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Summer 2005 Schedule

Course descriptions are below the table.

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Brous in Vancouver; Sustainability for land and people

Devorah Brous, an eloquent Israeli-American poet/activist, is appearing in Vancouver Saturday (May 14th at 7:00pm, at the Peretz Centre, 6184 Ash Street) as part of a speaking tour of North America with a multi-media presentation including music and slides. She … Continue reading

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GSS8 – MLIS detailed toplist

I shifted my thinking about MLIS. As I started to look at various schools’ Librarian programs I realized that many of them are presenting it as an “information architecture” field. That is something that I was adn am interested in. … Continue reading

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GSS7 – Library Science programs

I wanted to find out which are the best gard schools for Library Science. The free US News list includes only the top 3 schools. I checked out the paper edition of the list and that didn’t even include the … Continue reading

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Arab Institute for Holocaust Research and Education

The Boston Globe reported about the opening of a museum in Nazareth. This is the first Arabic institution showing the well-known images of the Shoah. The man beind the effort, Khaled Kasab Mahameed, is a lawyer who visited Auschwitz, as … Continue reading

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Jewish-Muslim Arts Festival

North Carolina Hillel and the University of North Carolina Muslim Students Association organized this one night event at Chapel Hill that included visual pieces, food, poetry, music, standup comedy and a speech. Based on this Hillel report it seemed to … Continue reading

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