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Will Mamdani’s successor in Albany be Muslim? Rana Abdelhamid eyes his vacant Assembly seat.

Will Mamdani’s successor in Albany be Muslim? Rana Abdelhamid eyes his vacant Assembly seat.

NEW YORK (RNS) — Like Mamdani, Abdelhamid is part of a generation of young Muslim progressives who have sought to invest in the city’s halls of power in recent years.
Will Mamdani’s successor in Albany be Muslim? Rana Abdelhamid eyes his vacant Assembly seat.

AI is enlisted to rescue Jews’ cultural heritage and give new life to ancient languages

(RNS) — Researchers are using a very modern tool to transcribe and read hundreds of thousands of medieval manuscripts from the lost age of Eastern European Jewry.
Will Mamdani’s successor in Albany be Muslim? Rana Abdelhamid eyes his vacant Assembly seat.

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Will Mamdani’s successor in Albany be Muslim? Rana Abdelhamid eyes his vacant Assembly seat.

Australia to hold funerals for the 15 victims of an antisemitic mass shooting at Bondi Beach

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Will Mamdani’s successor in Albany be Muslim? Rana Abdelhamid eyes his vacant Assembly seat.

After Trump called Somalis ‘garbage,’ Minnesota faith groups answer with tea and coffee

(RNS) — For people of faith, hospitality is not an optional extra but a requirement. We must stand with our Somali brothers and sisters facing persecution within our shared home.
Will Mamdani’s successor in Albany be Muslim? Rana Abdelhamid eyes his vacant Assembly seat.

Born out of national division, ‘O Little Town of Bethlehem’ is a balm for Christmas

(RNS) — A century and a half after Phillips Brooks wrote this haunting carol, there is much once again to lament, fear and grieve.

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Will Mamdani’s successor in Albany be Muslim? Rana Abdelhamid eyes his vacant Assembly seat.

ACNA Bishop Stewart Ruch found not guilty on all counts after tumultuous church trial

(RNS) — The decision comes more than six years after a 9-year-old child first came forward with sexual abuse allegations against a lay minister in the Upper Midwest Diocese, which is led by Ruch.
Will Mamdani’s successor in Albany be Muslim? Rana Abdelhamid eyes his vacant Assembly seat.

‘An alien in the house of God’: Canterbury’s gay dean wrestles with inaction on LGBTQ+ rights

(RNS) — Ahead of a vote in the Church of England's House of Bishops on same-sex marriage, David Monteith feels the church has given up on its commitment to reconciliation.

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