And the Oscar Goes to … Our Community! 💌
On behalf of our chapter, we want to thank our community for showing up so strongly for our banquet. We had a beautifully diverse room full of community members from across the region!
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Professor Khalidi in The New York Times
CAIR is primarily a non-profit, tax-exempt American organization mostly focusing on protecting the civil rights of American Muslims. Occasionally, however, we feel compelled to comment on or reprint the opinion of others on matters of great importance to this community.…
2022 End-of-Year Letter
In 2022, our office worked tirelessly to advocate for our community, to be the first line of legal defense, and to invest in our youth and principled activism. We are presenting a glimpse of our work and invite you to continue your support of CAIR-Philadelphia with an end-of-year gift.
Jacob Bender Honored at ISNA Interfaith Banquet
We are honored that our former executive director and current creative director Jacob Bender received an award at the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) Annual Convention in Chicago to recognize his years of service to the American Muslim community and to CAIR. Thank you, Jacob, for your ongoing service to our communities!
Former athletic trainer says Agnes Irwin School illegally fired her for social media posts critical of Israel
Natalie Abulhawa, a 24-year-old Palestinian American, says she was fired in November, 10 days after starting as an athletic trainer at the all-girls school. The issue cited by school officials, she said, was a profile about her hosted by a website that bills itself as documenting “individuals and organizations that promote hatred of the USA, Israel and Jews on North American college campuses.”
2021 End-of-Year Letter
In 2021, our office continued to identify new ways we could continue our ongoing fight against Islamophobia, racism, xenophobia, and bigotry in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. We continue to build relationships with local elected officials and like-minded organizations to work on real change.
CAIR-Philadelphia Joins #BoycottHilton Coalition With Educational Leafleting Campaign
CAIR-Philadelphia joins the #BoycottHilton Coalition* of more than 40 American and international organizations, with an educational leafleting campaign on Saturday, Oct. 16, outside Hilton Worldwide hotels in Philadelphia and Allentown over that corporation’s licensed construction of a Hampton Hotel on the site of a bulldozed mosque in the Uyghur region of China.
AAPI PA Survey
WHAT IS THE AAPI POWER CAUCUS? The AAPI PA Power Caucus began in 2019 as a space for Asian community organizations across Pennsylvania to come together and work towards the statewide civic empowerment of our community. This work together in…
Organizations Directory
Academy of Muslim Achievement Services: Organizers of quality events designed to promote achievements of Muslims and strengthen bonds between us and our non-Muslim family, neighbors, coworkers. • • • Alimah Scouts Services: Enhancing the development of girls through exposure to a series of…