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Ramadan Break-Fast: Breaking the Fast, Building Community, a chance for students, faculty, staff and community members of all religious and cultural backgrounds to meet each other and build a community of understanding, will be held at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 11, Hillel at Miami University, 11 E. Walnut Street, Oxford. The free program will educate participants on the holy months of Islam's Ramadan and Judaism's Tishrei as well as elements of fasting traditions in Christianity.
For more information, visit www.muohio.edu/breakingthefast or contact Amy Greenbaum, director@muhillel.org or 513-523-5190.
Sponsors include: Association of Jewish Students, Campus Ministry Center/Lights on Campus, Center for American and World Cultures (financial support), Division of Student Affairs at Miami University (financial support), Hillel at Miami University (financial support), Interfaith Circle, Jewish Studies Program, Lutheran Campus Ministry/Faith Lutheran Church, Miami Students for Israel, Middle East and Islamic Studies Program, Muslim Students Association, Office of Diversity Affairs, Office of Residence Life (financial support).
The members of the organizing committee for the event are: Rob Abowitz, associate director, residence life and new student programs; Whittney Barth, Interfaith Circle at MU; Rev. Harry Bolen, director, Campus Ministry Center/Lights on Campus; Steve DeLue, senior associate dean, College of Arts and Science, political science; Logan Dysart, pastor, Faith Lutheran Church, adviser, Lutheran Campus Ministries; Amy Greenbaum, director, Hillel at Miami University, adviser, Miami Students for Israel & Association of Jewish Students; Brenda Green, diversity affairs; Rachel Kaplan, Association of Jewish Students Social Action Chairperson; Faith Kelley, co-president, Interfaith Circle at MU; Jacob Patterson-Stein, Miami Students for Israel outreach chair; Zafer Ozdemir, DSC & MIS; Stan Toops, Middle East and Islamic studies program; Jacque Rioja Velarde, Center for American and World Cultures; Abdullah Yuvachi, Muslim Student Association.
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