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• in Politics
  Immigration and Religious Pluralism: Does the U.S. Have an Advantage?
  Muslims in the US and Europe. Religious pluralism promotes assimilation and participation.
  by madeleinekando / on Mar 3, 2011

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “assimilation”

 

• Tell the Stories of Today’s Jewish Heroes

  
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  Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel. Photo: David Shankbone. Every week I spend time in the library with my children, often reading the biographies of different heroes. It is easy to find biographies of “heroes” from our generation – From Michael Jordan to Lebron James, Madonna to Bill Clinton, walk through any ...
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• Repairing Our Broken Assimilation System

  
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  Every day we hear prominent Americans sounding off on the importance of comprehensive immigration reform. But there can be no comprehensive immigration reform without comprehensive assimilation reform. We should seriously examine what our assimilation policy should be, and we should develop a constructive plan to ...
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• 38% of Likely U.S. Voters think it’s at least somewhat likely that the House and Senate will present to the POTUS

  
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  38% of Likely U.S. Voters think it’s at least somewhat likely that the House and Senate will present to the POTUS Voters aren’t overly optimistic that Congress will pass an overhaul of the nation’s immigration laws this year. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 38% of Likely U.S. ...
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• Tangent on Sexual Minorities: Gay marriage trends worldwide, and how Japan’s Douseiaisha do it: Donald Keene’s marriage by Koseki adoption

  
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  Economist: On April 17th New Zealand became the 12th country to legalise gay marriage, though the law will not come into effect until August. Uruguay, too, has passed a similar bill that awaits the signature of the president before it becomes law. And in late March the American Supreme Court began hearing arguments in ...
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• German outpost born of racism in 1887 blends into Paraguay

  
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  NUEVA GERMANIA, Paraguay — The year was 1887 when two of the best-known German anti-Semites of the time put down stakes here in Paraguay’s remote jungle with 14 German families screened for their racial purity. The team of Bernhard Förster and his wife, Elisabeth, the sister of the philosopher Friedrich ...
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• What kind of Progress Report is this..?

  
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  Immediately after Speaker Boehner released his ‘Progress Report’ on Benghazi, another 13 Republicans bolted from House Leaders to cosponsor the Benghazi Committee. If that isn’t an embarrassing ‘Vote of No Confidence’, I don’t know what is! What’s worse, Boehner’s ‘Progress Report’ dismissed ...
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• Is Sari Raz A Racist? Or Is She Just Stupid?

  
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  כ"ג לחודש השני תשע"ג YNET: Banknote Committee Member: Cant Think Of Any Mizrahi Poets Sari Raz says shes unfamiliar with prominent 20th century Mizrahi poets; adds: We thought about Yehuda Halevi, but were told there was no picture of him April 29, 2013 Sari Raz, a former Channel 1 anchorwoman ...
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• Just how much money ($) did the Bombers receive? Plus: Three more arrested in assisting…

  
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  Finally! We’ve been speculating around here since this entire FUBAR Boston Marathon massacre has occurred when we were alerted that these Tsarnaev brothers and family members (specifically their Mom and Dad) had originally been refugees to this country. In order for an individual to receive refugee status from ...
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• Obama’s Presidency A Real Negative For Black Progress In USA

  
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  Barack Obama pretending to be a white guy, Daniel Day-Lewis, playing  Barack Obama. Not so much of a stretch really. Obama is awfully damned  white, in fact conservative white establishment, when you think about it.  Maybe that’s progress. Or maybe that’s a betrayal by a pol who figured  (rightly) that the ...
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• "Corporate sleaze," oh my -- an impressive new piece by Glenn Greenwald...

  
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  Glenn Greenwald is an extremely eloquent critic of state tyranny, using his training as a lawyer to relentlessly disassemble the hypocritical claims of corporate governmental powerbrokers (even though he still seemed to be supporting Obama when I saw him speak shortly before the “election”). But, at the same time, ...
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• A wonderful interview on Flashpoints!!!

  
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  Flashpoints has long been one of my favorite news programs because they dispense with that horrible illusion of “objective” journalism and instead present something nuanced and incisive. In the past month, I’ve had the honor of being on the program twice! This time I talk with host Dennis Bernstein about The End ...
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• Reformism Is Not Judaism

  
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  ט"ז לחודש השני תשע"ג Times Of Israel: Why the Reform Movement is so Popular in Israel Michael Boyden, April 23, 2013 It seems only natural to entitle this response with the exact opposite of the title of David Brent’s article in Times of Israel last Tuesday. David tells us that ...
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• ‘The Reluctant Fundamentalist’ Author Talks About Living a Hybrid Identity

  
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  What happens when an immigrant becomes disillusioned with his adoptive country? This is subject of director, Mira Nairs latest film "The Reluctant Fundamentalist," adapted from a novel by Mohsin Hamid.
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• Zakaria: Hey, Those Two Tsarnaev Boys Mean We Need Better Integration Of Muslims

  
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  More importantly, the media narrative that Boston was just some minor event with no links to any wider Muslim extremist movement continues, as witnessed in Fareed Zakaria’s op-ed As we learn more about the brothers Tsarnaev , we are inclined to ask larger questions about their apparent descent into terror . ...
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• Schools can’t assimilate immigrants

  
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  Urban schools struggle to educate and assimilate immigrant students — especially those who arrive in their teens, write  Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco and Carola Suárez-Orozco, a dean and professor at UCLA. In 1997, they began a study of newly arrived immigrants, ages 9 to 14, in 20 public middle and high schools in ...
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• Assimilating to American Culture as a Young Immigrant

  
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  The Tsarnaev brothers came to the US as young immigrants with their parents, and both were educated here. But what we now know about the two Boston bombing suspects raises questions about the different ways young immigrants assimilate to life in America.
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• The Proposed Immigration Bill by the Gang of Eight

  
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  The Proposed Immigration Bill by the Gang of Eight We are not precisely sure whom it is that these eight U.S. senators are trying to pull this nonsensical piece of legislation on; however, these senators need to understand that there are people who care about the rubbish they are peddling. We are in the process ...
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• FREE Webinar – Learn the Key to “Closing the Back Door” – This Week & Next

  
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  We’ve all heard this line from a frustrated pastor (or ourselves): “We would be growing if we could just close the back door.” The first step in closing the back door and keeping more first time guests is eliminating the mistakes you’re making now in assimilating new people! After coaching over 1,200 ...
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