Wednesday, May 6th from 8-10am at Congregation Kol Shofar, 215 Blackfield Dr., Tiburon 94920 Guest Speaker :  Dr. Melba Pattillo-Beals Dr. Melba Pattillo Beals is a retired Professor Emeritus from Dominican University of California.  Congress bestowed The Congressional Medal of Honor on Melba as one of the Little Rock Nine for risking their lives to integrate Central High School, Little Rock, Arkansas in 1957. She began her career as a PBS and later NBC television news reporter.  Dr. Beals...

On Sunday, December 7th, the Dominican Sisters of San Rafael celebrated 175 years of mission and service to the community. Over 200 people gathered to worship and view displays and videos of the work that they have done for the past 175 years. The Marin Interfaith Council was represented by the Rev. Lynn Oldham Robinett and a table full of information, including a flyer with images of the five Dominican Sisters who have served on the MIC Board since its founding: Sister Katherine Hamilton,...

A few weeks ago, my husband and I spent a week at a yoga retreat center on Lake Atitlan in Guatemala. I am not much of a yoga person, preferring to run or ride much more, but we were invited by Ryan's former tech colleagues, whose sister moved down there 40 years ago, and never came back. Having lived in Costa Rica for three years and visiting Guatemala twice before, this was a trip I wasn't going to pass up. Before the trip, the organizer of the trip, one of the brothers, let us know that...