On Saturday, May 2, 2020, at 6:00 PM ICCNC will host its annual Ramadan Interfaith Gathering via Zoom Meeting. The purpose of the event is to bring the greater community and our interfaith friends together to share in a conversation about our faiths and the challenge of COVID-19 in the spirit of solidarity, compassion, and generosity in these trying times.
We have three great speakers for the event that includes:
The Reverend Ben Daniel, the senior pastor at Montclair Presbyterian Church in Oakland
Rabbi David Cooper, Emeritus Rabbi at Kehilla Community Synagogue in Piedmont
Ahmad Rashid Salim, the Friday Prayers Imam and current ICCNC board member
Program: Quranic recitation and translation, lectures, question and answers session, dua Iftetah, and closing prayers.
Please click here to register for the event, then you will receive a link to the Zoom Meeting.
If you have issues with entering the event, please email info@iccnc.org.
Biographies
David J. Cooper is the emeritus rabbi at Kehilla Community Synagogue and has been an activist with the Faith Trio for 15 years. Rabbi David has a particular interest in the ways that spirituality and science interrelate during this era of the human story. For 35 years Kehilla has been active as a politically progressive, spiritually-oriented synagogue and is proud of and grateful for our close association with the ICCNC and the Montclair Presbyterian Church.
Ben Daniel earned his Bachelor of Arts degree with a major in Religious Studies at Westmont College with an emphasis in urban ministry. He received his Master of Divinity degree from Princeton Theological Seminary and was ordained in 1993. In addition to his pastoral work, Ben is a writer. His spiritually grounded, left-leaning social and political commentary has appeared in a wide variety of publications. He blogs for The Huffington Post, has written for UPI’s Religion and Spirituality Forum, and has been a regular contributor to KQED FM’s Perspectives program. In 2009, one of his sermons won the World Alliance of Reformed Churches’ international sermon-writing contest. His first book, Neighbor: Christian Encounters with “Illegal Immigration”, won a Gold Medal for Religion in Foreword Review’s Book of the Year Awards in 2011. His second book, The Search for Truth About Islam: A Christian Pastor Separates Fact from Fiction, was named by Library Journal one of the essential books on Islam every library should have in its collection.
Ahmad Rashid Salim is the Friday Prayers Imam and current ICCNC board member and he is a PhD student in Near Eastern Studies at UC Berkeley. He has been involved within the Muslim community in various roles and has taught on a wide range of topics including Islamic spirituality, ethics, community-building, youth outreach, and family conflict resolution. He's led inter- and intra- faith outreach efforts and appeared on live programming with global viewership, and spoken at various panels and conferences.