Sikhism

Sikh NRIs Celebrate Khalsa Festival

May 2, 2007

Source: The Times of India

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Sikh_NRIs_celebrate_Khalsa_festival/articleshow/1986482.cms

TORONTO: The Sikh community here celebrated the Toronto Khalsa festival, intended to educate other Canadians about the Sikh faith and ensure that their culture is kept alive by new generation Canadian-born Sikhs.

An estimated 40,000 people participated in the parade held on Monday, which featured bands, floats and Sikh men brandishing swords.

The mayor of Toronto proclaimed the day as Khalsa Day...

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Sikh Celebration Shows Openness

April 30, 2007

Author: Ryan Pfeiffer

Source: Standard Freeholder

http://www.standard-freeholder.com/webapp/sitepages/content.asp?contentid=507697&catname=Local+News&classif=News+-+Local

The Sikh Education and Research Centre of Cornwall celebrated Vaisakhi Gurpurab, the birthday of Khalsa Panth, at the Sangat Sahib Gurdwara in Williamstown Sunday.

"This day is like our new year with 300 to 500 people gathering at the Gurdwara throughout the weekend from all over," said Neil Shah, from the place of...

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Miss India New Jersey Learned to Treasure Her Heritage

April 29, 2007

Author: Carrie Stetler

Source: The Star-Ledger

http://www.nj.com/living/ledger/index.ssf?/base/living-0/1177821411189230.xml&coll=1

Miss India New Jersey jokes affectionately with the Sikh guys in turbans and baggy Ecco jeans.

Their elaborately cool greetings amuse her.

"The ghetto handshake," she says with a giggle.

Amritpal Sidhu doesn't giggle much -- at least not when she's in role-model mode.

An aspiring investment banker and a Sikh herself, she's given to...

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Festival Unveils Sikh Faith

April 28, 2007

Author: Rebecca Rosen Lum

Source: Contra Costa Times

http://www.contracostatimes.com/religion/ci_5773775

What began as a harvest festival in rural Punjab has become an opportunity for Sikhs to explain their faith throughout the Diaspora -- particularly in post-Sept. 11 America.

The Vaisakhi Festival links two New Years, overlaying a religious holiday on a seasonal celebration. At a time when farmers celebrated their harvest, a Sikh guru on April 13, 1699, established Khalsa, a ritual baptism...

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Bally Fitness Must Pay Settlement

April 25, 2007

Source: Examiner

Wire Service: AP

http://www.examiner.com/a-695002~Judge_orders_Bally_Total_Fitness_to_pay_discrimination_settlement.html

FRESNO, Calif. (Map, News) - A federal judge has ordered Bally Total Fitness to pay $24,000 to a Sikh man who sued when the company denied him a job after asking if he was Muslim, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said Wednesday.

Sukdev "Devin" Singh Dhaliwal applied for a sales job with one of Bally's five Fresno fitness centers in...

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Plan to Throw the Books at Violence

April 23, 2007

Author: Amy Zimmer

Source: Metro New York

http://ny.metro.us/metro/local/article/Plan_to_throw_the_books_at_violence/8123.html

MANHATTAN. Rajinder Singh Khalsa is tired of the insults — or worse — hurtled at him on the street because he wears a turban. Khalsa, who is Sikh, was beaten in Richmond Hill three years ago by five men when he intervened on behalf of a fellow Sikh they were mocking.

Khalsa tried to explain the significance of their turbans to the men, who told him to “get out of this...

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After 9/11: A Film to Nurture Inter-Faith Dialogue

April 23, 2007

Author: Joanna Corma

Source: Episcopal Life Online

Wire Service: RNS

http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81827_85236_ENG_HTM.htm

In the days following the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, images of the smoldering World Trade Center towers and a bearded and turbaned Osama bin Laden flashed constantly across TV screens.

So did images of President George W. Bush, espousing national unity and speaking of the kindness that Americans of all backgrounds were...

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A Tradition of Equality

April 22, 2007

Author: Kevin Crush

Source: Daily Herald-Tribune

http://www.dailyheraldtribune.com/z_atradition103.lasso

There's something about sitting on the floor that gives a feeling of being one with everybody else. Maybe it brings back memories of sitting with elementary classmates as together we all listened as our teacher read us a story. Or maybe there is just something primeval about being close to the ground.

Whatever it is, sitting on the floor of the basement of the Grande Prairie Sikh temple,...

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Sikhs Take Advantage of Internet to Connect

April 21, 2007

Author: Neha Singh Gohil

Source: Contra Costa Times

http://www.contracostatimes.com/nationandworld/ci_5721683

NEW YORK - Every morning, Gurumustuk Singh Khalsa wakes up at 4 a.m., coats his body with almond oil, takes a cold shower and spends the next two hours meditating on God. In the quiet New Mexico dawn, he goes through a yoga routine and recites two Sikh prayers - the Japji Sahib and the Jaap Sahib.

This was Khalsa's New Year's resolution - to get up early and practice his "Sadhana," or...

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Sherman Calls for Hate Crimes Law at Baisakhi Fest

April 20, 2007

Author: Michel W. Pots

Source: India-West

http://www.indiawest.com/view.php?subaction=showfull&id=1176403274&archive=&start_from=&ucat=10

LOS ANGELES-As a Democratic member of the House Judiciary Committee, Congressman Brad Sherman called for a Federal Hate Crimes statute to become the law of the land during the annual Baisakhi celebrations held April 8 at the Los Angeles Convention Center here.

With the Democratic Party having captured Congress in the recent elections, "I'm...

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Region's First Sikh House of Worship Opens in Chesapeake

April 20, 2007

Author: JANETTE RODRIGUES

Source: The Virginian-Pilot

http://content.hamptonroads.com/story.cfm?story=122876&ran=75411

CHESAPEAKE - A woman dressed in a tunic and flowing pants slipped off her shoes after she entered a Sikh house of worship just off Great Bridge Boulevard.

She washed her hands, pulled up the scarf draped across her shoulder so it covered her hair and walked into the prayer room, where a reader sitting on a raised platform chanted scripture from the Sikh holy book. She...

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"Sikh Day 2007 Ottawa, Canada," a Commentary by Gursevak Singh Kasbia

April 18, 2007

Author: Gursevak Singh Kasbia

Source: Sikh News Network

http://www.sikhnet.com/sikhnet/news.nsf/NewsArchive/676515AD078FDE38872572C1005368C2

On a cool autumn evening a bunch of friends get together at a local coffee shop. They just happen to be Sikh, and seem to be interested in a concept that really hasn’t taken off in their faith. They live in a relatively educated community, a small city of sorts, with large expectations. In their city contains many of the legislators and members of parliament...

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Sikh Parade Slammed for Violent Slant

April 18, 2007

Source: The Province

http://www.canada.com/theprovince/news/story.html?id=642c0802-9287-4667-bd43-fbddabbbab8d

An Indian diplomat says he's outraged that a parade celebrating Sikhism also appeared to honour militants, including an alleged Air India bomber, who died fighting for a separate Sikh state in Punjab.

India's consul in Vancouver, Ashok Kumar, said it's unacceptable the annual Vaisakhi parade in Surrey featured portraits of so-called martyrs.

Kumar told CBC's The National the Indian government finds any...

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Sikh Coalition Wants Terror Label Lifted From Outlawed Groups

April 17, 2007

Author: Kim Bolan

Source: Vancouver Sun

http://www.canada.com/topics/news/national/story.html?id=68e70243-4f80-40f0-983e-03ad9444d335&k=16936

VANCOUVER - A coalition of Canadian Sikhs is putting forward a new "Sikh agenda for the Canadian government" to make a series of demands, including reversing a ban on terrorist organizations and support for the creation of a separate Sikh country called Khalistan, the Vancouver Sun has learned.

A draft of the eight-point program was posted on a...

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Lathrop Vice Mayor Part of Sikh Temple

April 17, 2007

Author: ROSE ALBANO RISSO

Source: Manteca Bulletin

http://www.mantecabulletin.com/articles/2007/04/12/news/news4.txt

LATHROP — When he's not busy with Lathrop city affairs, Vice Mayor Sonny Dhaliwal is at the Sikh Temple on Grant Street in Stockton helping run the oldest temple of its kind in North America.

Dhaliwal is a member of the temple's board of directors that is in charge of overseeing the temple which boasts 1,500 to 2,000 members from all over San Joaquin County.

The 21-...

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