Salah Sarsour was taken into custody by nearly a dozen US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents on Monday in Milwaukee after he left his home. Supporters called for his immediate release on Thursday and his attorneys said he was detained on the grounds that he is a foreign policy threat.
Devon Hase states, 'People are trying desperately to fix, optimize, or escape their way out of relationship difficulty - and suffering more for the effort. Social media has made this worse! We're surrounded by images of perfect partnerships while quietly drowning in our own ordinary struggles.' This highlights the pressure couples feel in the age of social media.
Every year on Remembrance Day, the bishop of London leads a public Christian act of lamentation in the open air, accompanied by hymns, Bible readings, and prayers in the name of Jesus Christ.
Behind the closed doors of a therapy practice, science and spiritual traditions are not adversaries. In fact, knowing how to ensure that your belief system is compatible with counseling can transform your experience and strengthen your bond.
Congregation T'chiyah Rabbi Alana Alpert said that everyone deserves to walk safely down the streets of our neighborhoods and through the doors of our holy spaces. Anytime someone blames or conflates all Jewish people including kids at their school with the state or government of Israel, that is dangerous and antisemitic, and it leads directly to violence against us.
Not a day passes without some overt expression of it in our national life. A crime committed by one Muslim becomes an indictment of all Muslims. A cultural practice is wrenched from context and weaponised to provoke anxiety. A theological concept is distorted to imply threat. And on the streets, and increasingly online, it can turn into violence, intimidation or exclusion directed at anyone who looks Muslim.
So I worked at General Electric's Finance and Accounting division in New York City for three years. And then I moved to GE Capital, which was their financial services arm, which was really booming at the time in the mid-'80s. So I moved there in 1985. I took a job in human resources and I thought that would be a little more congenial, but gradually I started to realize I'm in the wrong place.
In this issue of the HBR Executive Agenda, editor at large Adi Ignatius talks to Harvard Business School professor Ranjay Gulati about how leaders can act with clarity amid rising social tension and rapid technological change.
In the early 20th century, sociologist Max Weber noted that sweeping industrialization would transform how societies worked. As small, informal operations gave way to large, complex organizations with clearly defined roles and responsibilities, leaders would need to rely less on tradition and charisma, and more on organization and rationality. He also foresaw that jobs would need to be broken down into specialized tasks and governed by a system of hierarchy,
The Indian and Chinese Religions in Dialogue Unit of the AAR invites panel and paper proposals for the 2026 American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting in Denver. The deadline is Friday, March 6th. Panel and paper proposals covering all Indian and Chinese traditions from diverse theoretical and methodological perspectives are welcomed. Please see below the panel themes already proposed and reach out to the relevant contact person if interested. Proposals of others are welcomed as well. Proposals should be submitted through PAPERS.
