Tanenbaum Center for Interreligious Understanding

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Tanenbaum Center for Interreligious Understanding
Formation1992
Type non-profit organization
Headquarters New York, New York, United States
CEO
 Joyce S. Dubensky
Key people
Georgette Bennett, President and Founder
Website https://tanenbaum.org

Tanenbaum Center for Interreligious Understanding (or Tanenbaum) is a secular non-profit organization that works to promote mutual respect and understanding and fight religious prejudice in workplaces, schools, health care settings and conflict zones. Headquartered in New York, New York, Tanenbaum was founded in 1992 by Georgette Bennett in memory of her late husband, Rabbi Marc H. Tanenbaum. Tanenbaum's activity revolves around five programs: religion and diversity in the workplace, religion in education, religion and healthcare, religion and conflict resolution, and the religious roots of prejudice and interreligious affairs. [1] [2]

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History

Tanenbaum was founded in 1992 by Georgette Bennett. Originally named the Rabbi Marc H. Tanenbaum Foundation, the organization started by focusing on promoting studies aimed at ending religious bias.

Since its founding, Tanenbaum has focused on how these biases play out in the real word – in schools, workplaces, health care settings and conflict areas – designing practical programs to overcome religious intolerance and prevent religiously-motivated violence. [3] [4]

Mission

Tanenbaum believes in a safe world “in which religious differences are respected and daily life reflects the highest values of our shared religious and ethical traditions.”

Tanenbaum designs trainings and educational materials that aim to lead to a greater understanding and respect between people of different religious backgrounds. [5]

Work

Tanenbaum's work is grouped around five practical programs, each with a specific set of tools and resources: religion in the workplace, religion in schools, religion and health care, religion and conflict resolution and interreligious affairs.

Tanenbaum's Peacemakers in Action Network is a group of individuals who are fighting violence and intolerance in some of the most dangerous conflict areas around the world. The Network allows these men and women to help share information and ideas, coordinate on-the-ground interventions and help each other get out of harm. Currently, there are 26 living Peacemakers in Action who operate in 23 conflict and post-conflict zones. [6]

In 2010, Tanenbaum received a two-year grant from the Henry R. Luce Foundation to develop case studies on religious peacemakers. It received a second grant from the foundation in 2015 to disseminate the second Peacemakers in Action volume. [7]

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References

  1. ↑ "Tanenbaum Center for Interreligious Understanding". Berkleycenter.georgetown.edu. 2016-09-21. Retrieved 2016-09-28.
  2. ↑ "History". Tanenbaum.org. Retrieved 2016-09-28.
  3. ↑ Alison Moodie. "Are US businesses doing enough to support religious diversity in the workplace? | Guardian Sustainable Business". The Guardian . Retrieved 2016-09-28.
  4. ↑ "Groups pursue interfaith activism for social change". Waccglobal.org. 2016-04-01. Retrieved 2016-09-28.
  5. ↑ Kelsey Dallas. "Should your boss know that you keep the Sabbath? | Deseret News National". National.deseretnews.com. Retrieved 2016-09-28.
  6. ↑ "Tanenbaum's Peacemakers in Action Network: Combating Religious Prejudice | Weapons of Mass Construction". U.osu.edu. 2016-04-25. Retrieved 2016-09-28.
  7. ↑ "Religion in International Affairs Grants". Hluce.org. Retrieved 2016-09-28.
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