South Bay Interfaith

 

Breaking Bread Together: An Interfaith Reunion

September 21, 2006

Participating Organizations

Sponsoring Organizations:

• Assyrian Church of the East- Western CA Diocese
• Assyrian Religious Cultural Television (ARC-TV)
• Cantors and Rabbis Association of San Jose
• Center for Spiritual Enlightenment
• Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)
  of Northern California
• Council of Churches of Santa Clara County
• First Unitarian Church, San Jose
• Foothill Presbyterian Church
• Interfaith Space
• Islamic Networks Group (ING)
• Jain Center of Northern California
• JCRC of the Peninsula (Jewish Community Relations Council)
• JCRC of Silicon Valley
• Roman Catholic Diocese of San Jose
• San Jose Buddhist Church Betsuin
• The San Jose Stakes
  of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
• Santa Clara University
• SEMAH (Safety, Education, Mutual Respect, Awareness, Hope)
• South Bay Islamic Association
• SVCCJ (Silicon Valley Conference for Community and Justice)

Participating Organizations

• A Meeting of the Ways (KKUP)
• Bay Area Cultural Connections (BAYCC)
• Congregation Beth Am, Los Altos Hills
• Covenant of the Goddess, Northern California
• Rahima Foundation
• St. Philip's Episcopal Church, San Jose
• Temple Emanu-El, San Jose
• Vipassana San Jose Buddhist Sadhana

Special Thanks To:

Volunteers from The Church of Latter Day Saints, the Jain community, and First Unitarian, San Jose for clean up assistance; Susannah Pittam for designing the logo; Karen Stiller for producing the posters and program; House of Bagels (for challah breads); Mughal Cuisine in Fremont and Shahnawaz in Milpitas (for pakoras).

FOOD COMMITTEE: Syeda Reshma Yunus (Chair), Rev. Margo Tenold (co-chair); Genie Bernardini, Bart Charlow, Aida Hamshari, Joyce Miller, Zeby Mohsin, Geeta Naidu, Nancy Smereski, Carol Stephenson

STEERING COMMITTEE MEMBERS: Imam Tahir Anwar (South Bay Islamic Association); Bart Charlow (Silicon Valley Conference for Community and Justice); Rev. Ben Daniel (Foothill Presbyterian Church); Diane Fisher (Jewish Community Relations Council of Silicon Valley) Richard Grant (The San Jose Stakes of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints); Fr. Jose Rubio & Don Jones (Roman Catholic Diocese of San Jose); Rev. Nancy Palmer Jones (First Unitarian Church of San Jose); Rev. D. Andrew Kille (Interfaith Space); Joy-Ellen Lipsky & Ann Hayes (Center for Spiritual Enlightenment); Rabbi Dana Magat (Temple Emanu-El & Cantors & Rabbis Association of San Jose); Dr. Philip "Boo" Riley (Santa Clara University); Chetan Sanghvi (Jain Center of Northern California); Karen Stiller & Ellen Tafeen (Jewish Community Relations Council, Peninsula Region); Rev. Margo Tenold (Council of Churches of Santa Clara County); Syeda Reshma Yunus (SEMAH Inc.)

We greatly appreciate the generosity of all the supporters of this event. We sincerely apologize if we accidentally omitted anyone.