New citizens naturalized and celebrated at Lynden Sculpture Garden
Photos by Cherrie Hanson U.S. Magistrate Judge Nancy Joseph, an immigrant from Haiti, presided over the swearing-in of 52 new citizens Sunday at the Lynden Sculpture Garden in River Hills. Fifty-two people from more than two dozen countries became citizens...
ELCA elects first Black presiding bishop, calls Israel’s actions in Gaza a genocide
Bishop Yehiel Curry. Photo courtesy of Metropolitan Chicago Synod(RNS) — The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America elected its first Black leader on Wednesday (July 30) at its churchwide assembly meeting in Phoenix.The Rev. Yehiel Curry, bishop of the...
Israel has barred international press from Gaza so it can carry out genocide, and the media has complied
New York Times headquarters The annihilation of Gaza demands such urgent action from the world to save lives that observers often overlook an Israeli policy that is not directly murderous but plays a role in the destruction. That is the policy of not...
Salam School Junior achieves perfect ACT score
Photo by Cherrie HansonFatima Hameed, 17, of Greenfield attributes her success to her parents’ attention to her education from an early age, the mentorship of excellent teachers and the motivating environment of Salam School.Salam School junior Fatima...
Highlighting a Consistent Muslim Home Writer: Sister Wendy Diaz
This issue of Muslim Home Newsletter is the 200th edition. In recognition of this achievement, all articles fall under the theme of consistency. One of the most consistent and prolific writers for Muslim Home newsletter is Sister Wendy Diaz. Sr Wendy...
Irish President Urges UN to Invoke Chapter Seven Against Israel’s Starvation Siege on Gaza
Ireland’s President Michael D. Higgins has issued a searing rebuke of Israel’s ongoing assault and blockade on Gaza, calling it a deliberate campaign of starvation and mass destruction, and urged the United Nations to take immediate enforcement action to...
Girls Dabke takes root in Milwaukee
Photos by Elhadi MohamedBanat Al-Huriyah Girls Dabke Group debuted in June at Celebrating Palestine, the first Palestinian cultural festival in Milwaukee.Attend any wedding for a bride and groom with family roots in the Levant—Lebanon, Syria, Jordan,...
Utilizing Higher Education and Political Prowess to Inspire an Ideological Shift
The Muslim American community is at a generational turning point, one that calls not for cautious optimism or slow, negotiated progress, but for decisive and unapologetic agenda-setting. For too long, we have been trained to believe that our victories lie...
Over 100 journalists call for foreign media access to Gaza as pressure on Israel mounts
With Israel continuing to deny international media access, global coverage has relied almost exclusively on Gaza-based Palestinian journalists. (AFP/File)LONDON: More than 100 prominent journalists have called for “immediate and unsupervised foreign press...
Wisconsinites hear eye-witness account of “horrific man-made catastrophe” in Gaza
Photo by Sandra Whitehead“Let’s not forget, this is a man-made catastrophe. It is entirely preventable,” U.S. Trauma Surgeon Feroze Sidhwa said about the “horrendous” conditions in Gaza, after serving five weeks there on medical missions.“I’m a physician...
