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Category: Religion
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Viktor Frankl, the psychotherapist and author of the hugely influential book Man’s Search for Meaning, died seventeen years ago this week.
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Ayesha Mattu and Nura Maznavi, editors of ‘Salaam, Love: American Muslim Men on Love, Sex, and Intimacy,’ recommend six groundbreaking titles as part of the #RamadanReads campaign, a “book buying revolution” meant to celebrate and support diverse and divergent stories and storytellers in the Muslim community.
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Mohammed Shamma, a contributor to ‘Salaam, Love: American Muslim Men on Love, Sex, and Intimacy’, remembers back to a Ramadan in 1982, when he was a young boy learning to heal from the loss of his father.
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A contributor to ‘Salaam, Love: American Muslim Men on Love, Sex, and Intimacy’ recalls the difficult yet rewarding lessons of his first Ramadan, when he was still unprepared for the physical and spiritual rigors he would encounter.
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Louise Steinman remembers Maciej Ziembinski, a pioneering journalist, editor, advocate, historian, and central figure in her book, ‘The Crooked Mirror.’
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An intimate reflection by Susan Katz Miller, author of ‘Being Both,’ on the nature of motherhood, daughterhood, and the power of bringing interfaith activism and inclusiveness to Mother’s Day.
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A young student of capoeira struggles to keep up until he realizes that drumbeats not only guide his movements, but also “knit us into the cosmic fabric of the universe, into the social fabric of families. . .and into the rich textures of religious traditions.”
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A young writer discovers the power and spiritual significance humans have always applied to stones.
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Susan Katz Miller, author of BEING BOTH: Embracing Two Religions in One Interfaith Family, celebrates an interfaith Easter and the bonds that unite families, neighborhoods, and countries.
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The process of reconciliation, like the celebration of Passover, requires a leap of imagination, asserts Louise Steinman, author of THE CROOKED MIRROR: A Memoir of Polish-Jewish Reconciliation.
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