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NPF News and Press
April 29, 2009
Delegate Vira Sitalo looks on a class of first graders while the school's principal asks the students where Ukraine is located. The delegation of teachers and school administrators got a tast of southern culture while studying Rural Education in Louisville, KY. While there, the delegation traveled to southern Indiana to get a well-rounded perspective of the challenges facing education in rural areas.
NPF's Dialogue Program on Religion & Society wraps up its fifth exchange delegation to the United States. Participants from Yeman, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates have spent the past fourteen days in meetings and experiential workshops with inter-religious groups, social...
By SAM HODGES / The Dallas Morning News samhodges@dallasnews.com Rabbi Jeremy Schneider spends a lot of time talking to Muslims, and wants other Jews to do the same. At age 32, the assistant rabbi at Dallas' Temple Shalom has emerged as a national leader in Jewish-Muslim...
The NPF Peacebuilders Reception showcases Peace Quilts, by artist Carol Hiltner. These quilts were Ms. Hiltner’s response to the overarching threat of nuclear annihilation felt the world over in the 1980s. Stitched initially as a means to ease the fear felt by school children in America and...
By SAM HODGES / The Dallas Morning News samhodges@dallasnews.com Anyone wanting to experience something different in a Jewish worship service should go to Temple Shalom in North Dallas tonight. A Muslim will be in the pulpit as part of a new North American initiative to confront...
Jim Witte describes the irrigation system at his vineyard to (left to right) Aleksandr Vyatkin, Tatyana Mikhaylova and Olga Tarakanova, while another Russian visitor documents the moment on camera. The Open World Program was founded by James Billington, the librarian of Congress and an...
BY DON HUEBSCHER, EAU CLAIRE LEADER TELEGRAM - July 8, 2008
Sometimes the greatest impediment to peace is the stalemate between conflicting sides. A closer look at the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and how citizens can end it.
FROM OPEN WORLD LEADERSHIP CENTER, THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS - June 27, 2008
Community leaders in Wisconsin meet with Ukrainian NGO leaders from areas particularly affected by the 1986 Chernobyl disaster.
BY SCOTT MACLEOD, TIME MAGAZINE - May 15, 2008
TIME Magazine's Cairo Bureau Chief talks about two new books that address different aspects of the Middle East.
Last month the National Women’s Hall of Fame celebrated the induction of ten women for their outstanding contributions to the arts, athletics, business, education, government, humanities, philanthropy and science. The 2005 Inductees were:...