From Katya Maslakowski

The Yates Ballroom was packed. Presenters, attendees, staff and volunteers were tired from another full day. I stood at the back of the theater, tucked away behind the buffet tables with the rest of the staff. All conference long we’ve had leaders of different faith communities bless each meal. [...]

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Just in from Charles Levesque, our COO
Monday at the 5th National Interfaith Youth Work Conference, I attended a session on service learning by Jon Schmidt of the Chicago Public Schools. The first step necessary to foster civic engagement, Schmidt argued, is to build community. Down the hall, at a session designed to help students assess [...]

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This is Eliyahu McLean, panelist for the Mutually Inspiring Relationships plenary.  He is just about to speak and we are setting up his slides, so we took this photo.  This afternoon I helped organize his slides about a Rabbi in an Israeli settlement who dialogues with Palestinians (these particular photos were focused on the [...]

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