Adam Solomon Greatly Missed

With great sorrow and shock, the Board of Directors, Leadership Council and staff of Tanenbaum remember our founding Board member, Adam Solomon.

Adam inspired us with his strategic brilliance and loyal commitment to making an impact in overcoming religious hatred and intolerance. But even more, he was a dear and treasured friend, whose loss is felt keenly by us all.

We send heartfelt condolences to Adam’s wife Vicki, his children James, Peter, David and Jessica and his sister Tracy.

Too young, too soon.

Georgette Bennett and Joyce Dubensky
Tanenbaum Center for Interreligious Understanding

For more on Adam and his legacy at Tanenbaum, including opportunities to make a gift to his memorial, visit www.tanenbaum.org/adam_solomon.html

Please feel free to comment below on how much Adam meant to you.

Happy end of 2007!

Whatever you celebrate at this time of year, if anything, have a wonderful one - and best wishes for 2008.

We’ll see you next year!

What are we doing here?

What exactly are we going to be doing here at Moving Beyond Differences? Hopefully, we’ll be starting up some interesting conversations and making connections. But for now, we thought it would be helpful to put this blog in context and explain a bit more about what you can expect to find here.

All our programs - conflict res, workplace, education, special programs - do a lot of training, presenting and public speaking. There’s usually a lot to talk about (once you create a safe space for people to discuss religion, you open the floodgates - no one wants to stop!). Almost inevitably, you’ll bring up questions and issues that we may not have time to explore as much as we’d like in the interest in making sure the group has the opportunity to cover all the material we have.

That’s where Moving Beyond Differences comes in. While we’ll always hang around to continue an unfinished conversation with you, the issues you bring up are probably issues that other people in your position - be you an HR specialist or 2nd grade teacher - are interested in too.

We’ll bring those questions and issues here and give you our take on them. Hopefully, you’ll get involved in the comments and provide your perspective, and we can have a conversation that will enrich us all.

Look out for an upcoming post on navigating the “December Dilemma.” In the meantime, use comments to let us know what you’d like to talk about.

By the way, welcome to Moving Beyond Differences!

We’ll be posting about questions and issues that come up during our events and trainings that are either (1) new to us, (2) of interest to you (we hope!), (3) ongoing hot topics that we’d love to hear from you about or (4) just plain interesting.

We hope you’ll be part of this conversation with us!