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Bishop Mark Beckwith, Rabbi Matthew Gewirtz, and Imam W. Deen Shareef appeared on Ebru Today, a news and culture program on the cable channel Ebru TV, to talk about the Newark Interfaith Coalition for Hope and Peace and their interfaith trip to Israel/Paslestine.
The push for stiffer gun control measures has taken a front seat on the American consciousness after the deadly school shooting in Newtown, Conn. last month. President Barack Obama unveiled a $500 million gun violence package today aimed at reducing violence nationwide. That was good news to members of the Newark Interfaith Coalition for Hope and Peace, whose mission is to curb violence in New Jersey’s largest city.
Bishop Mark Beckwith said Obama’s proposal isn’t as much as he would want, but it’s a step in the right direction. He said aside from the Newtown shooting, there have been other acts of unspeakable violence with guns. The impetus for the interfaith coalition was the 2007 schoolyard shooting in Newark that left three teens dead and one wounded at the hands of gang members.
Bishop Beckwith will appear on NJ Today with Mike Schneider on Wednesday, January 16. He and some of his colleagues from the Newark Interfaith Coalition for Hope and Peace will talk about their work and current issues of violence in society.
NJ Today airs on NJTV at 6 p.m., with reruns at 7:30 and 11 p.m. It will also air on WNET 13 at 6 p.m.
Clergy Conference 2013 will feature the Rev. Maggi Dawn of Yale University as keynote speaker, exploring the theme for this year’s Conference, In Spirit and In Truth.
As always, all clergy are respectfully expected to attend the Conference. Attendees must submit a diocesan registration form (via the Click here to REGISTER button below) AND must also call the Shawnee Inn to make their own room reservations (1-800-SHAWNEE).
On MSNBC's Morning Joe with Joe Scarborough, Bishop Mark Beckwith, Rabbi Matthew Gewirtz and Imam Deen Shareef discuss the lessons that should be taken away from the tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. Time: 8:44.
On Friday at 8:15 a.m. ET, Bishop Mark Beckwith will appear on MSNBC's Morning Joe with his interfaith colleagues Rabbi Matthew D. Gewirtz of Temple B’Nai Jeshurun in Short Hills and Imam W. Deen Shareef of Masjid Waarith ud Deen in Irvington.
Bishop Beckwith, Rabbi Gewirtz and Imam Shareef will talk about thier violence-reduction efforts in Newark through the Newark Interfaith Coalition for Hope and Peace and their recent interfaith trip to Israel/Palestine.
An invitation from Bishop Beckwith:
This piece was published as an op-ed in the Star-Ledger on December 12, 2012.