Hoffman calls for more peaceful, inclusive Holy City
Israel may be a relatively new country, but the problems that prevent it from being a place of peace are ancient.
Interfaith Lecture Series
Sebelius: A livable community is a healthy community
More racial diversity, greater economic inequality and wider polarization of politics separate contemporary America from any other era in the…
McBride to discuss ending violence, racism in communities
When the Rev. Michael McBride was physically and sexually assaulted by a police officer as a college student in 1999,…
Torres-Fleming talks ‘beloved community’
Alexie Torres-Fleming’s mother had a dream at the turn of the millennium.
Naughton disrupts the system through housing, education, wellness initiatives
Just two weeks after joining the then-broken Atlanta Housing Authority, Carol R. Naughton found herself in the passenger seat of her boss’s car, surrounded by “drug boys” trying to block their path and demanding they turn around. The two were on their way to a meeting in the East Lake Meadows housing project, dubbed “Little Vietnam” by local authorities for its notorious violence, rampant crime and deep-seated poverty.
Women of the Wall founder Hoffman to discuss religion, politics in Israel
The Western Wall in Jerusalem is the holiest site in Judaism, but Jewish women are not allowed to freely pray…
Focus on humans rather than systems, Torres-Fleming says
Alexie Torres-Fleming grew up in the South Bronx, and she left to pursue a career. She returned after realizing her…
Leary, Hochul seek drug-free communities
A national crisis is at hand, but Mary Lou Leary and William J. Hochul Jr. said there is no time or money to put off solving it another day. Even sitting inside a quiet community like Chautauqua, the urgency of opiates and opioid addictions and overdoses cannot be escaped.
Naughton to discuss breaking cycle of poverty
Between the 1970s and 1995, the East Lake neighborhood in Atlanta was home to the East Lake Meadows housing project,…
Federal officials Hochul, Leary to discuss regional epidemic of opiate abuse
In one 24-hour period in mid-July, 10 people overdosed on heroin in Buffalo. In March, $3.5 million worth of heroin,…
The Chautauquan Daily 