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Upcoming dinner to highlight fostering dialogue between Jews, Muslims, Christians

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Spokane Area Jewish Family Services invites the community for a catered dinner featuring Antonio Gómez on Sept. 8

Gómez is an educator and percussionist focused on fostering musical dialogue between cultures. He has studied, performed and recorded in various genres with emphases on Mediterranean and Afro-Latin music.

At the dinner, he will discuss the tensions and conflicts between Jews, Muslims and Christians that appear in the daily news.

According to an announcement, “He will discuss what we can learn when we examine the historical threads and unravel stories of connection and collaboration that defy those headlines.

“Drawing from a story of personal discovery, Gómez leads a vivid and vigorous discussion that reveals medieval Spain as a crossroads connecting the Golden Age of Islam, Sephardic Judaism, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Gómez shows how Spain, as a channel for the flow of ideas and technology into a Europe that was parched by relative isolation, led advances in science, math, poetry, music, architecture and politics that would ripple across the world,” the announcement continued.

The event will take place at Temple Beth Shalom, 1322 E 30th Ave., for a suggested $7 donation.

Tracy Simmons
Tracy Simmons
Tracy Simmons is an award-winning journalist specializing in religion reporting and digital entrepreneurship. In her approximate 20 years on the religion beat, Simmons has tucked a notepad in her pocket and found some of her favorite stories aboard cargo ships in New Jersey, on a police chase in Albuquerque, in dusty Texas church bell towers, on the streets of New York and in tent cities in Haiti. Simmons has worked as a multimedia journalist for newspapers across New Mexico, Texas, Connecticut and Washington. She is the executive director of FāVS.News, a digital journalism start-up covering religion news and commentary in Spokane, Washington. She also writes for The Spokesman-Review and national publications. She is a Scholarly Associate Professor of Journalism at Washington State University.

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