Bob Silverman, a Jew who spent most of his diplomatic career in Muslim-majority nations, will now reach out to Muslims in his own country. The American Jewish Committee recently hired him as its first U.S. director of Muslim-Jewish relations.
As a U.S. Foreign Service officer for 27 years, the Des Moines, Iowa, native served in Israel, Azerbaijan, Tunisia, Egypt, Turkey, Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Sweden, and retired from the government last year. Now 58, he works at the New York headquarters of the 110-year-old AJC, which was founded to combat discrimination against Jews but has historically defended other minority groups as well.
BOSTON – In a society often riven over politics and religion, Christians in New England shouldn't be expected to agree on everything – and they don't.
There are 700 churches in the Boston metro area alone, according to the Emmanuel Gospel Center's directory. They range in flavor from Southern Baptist to African Methodist Episcopal to Roman Catholic to Russian Orthodox. Some churches get even more specific, such as Korean Methodist congregations in Cambridge and Boston.
