To: RELIGION EDITORS Contact: Gary A. Tobin, Ph.D., President, press@jewishresearch.org, or Jenna Ferer, jenna@jewishresearch.org, +1-415-386-2604, both for Institute for Jewish & Community Research
To: RELIGION EDITORS Contact: Gary A. Tobin, Ph.D., President, press@jewishresearch.org, or Jenna Ferer, Research Associate, +1- 415-386-2604, press@jewishresearch.org, both of Institute for Jewish & Community Research
To: RELIGION EDITORS Contact: CONTACTS: Gary A. Tobin, Ph.D., or Jenna Ferer, Research Associate, both of Institute for Jewish & Community Research, +1- 415-386-2604, press@jewishresearch.org
When Ruby and Ralph Caruso's grandson Anthony, 12, who has cerebral palsy, no longer could walk without assistance and they needed to renovate their bathroom to accommodate his wheelchair, they called everyone they could think of for help. No luck. But now they've found their "guardian angel" in the Joey Children's Fund of Branford, which has agreed to pay the $28,800 to install a roll-in shower. The fund even got a local contractor, Gary Tobin of G.P. Tobin Construction, to discount his normal price for what could have been a $40,000 project.
I recently read a book that deserves the widest possible readership. The book is "The Trouble with Textbooks - Distorting History and Religion" by Gary A. Tobin and Dennis R. Ybarra. I have never met or talked with either of these gentlemen, but I can't say enough good things about this book. For all who believe that there is a fairly objective rendition of history that we are obliged to teach our children, this book reveals how shockingly far from that objective American education-and particularly school textbooks-have fallen. In their conclusion, the authors quote the great historian of Islam, Bernard Lewis' observation concerning the willful bending of history: "We live in a time when great efforts have been made, and continue to be made, to falsify the record of the past and to make...
To: National Desk Contact: Gary A. Tobin of the Institute for Jewish & Community Research, press@JewishResearch.org; Noam Neusner, noam@neusner.comor 202-903-2463
In the late 1980's the Prime Minister of Japan made some derogatory, public remarks about Blacks that, for a time, created a negative backlash among Blade towards products manufactured in Japan." Tobin recalled. "Many of our Black leaders at that time, Rev. Jesse Jackson, Ambassador Andrew Young, Rev. Al Sharpton, and others spoke-out against the Prime Minister's comments, and I determined that the situation created an opportunity for Tobin & Associates. In addition to Tobin's day-to-day involvement with some of the most exciting projects in our community, Tobin has contributed to the inspiration, establishment, and advancement of the Black-owned public relations firms throughout the United States, as the co-founder of the Black Public Relations Association where she served most r...
..., Mississippi, Blackhawk, Colorado, and Gary, Indiana.". As far as advice for aspiring public r...
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 28 /U.S. Newswire/ -- This Rosh Hashanah, a growing number of American Jews in synagogues across the country will draw from ethnically and racially diverse backgrounds. New research debunks the commonly held view that America's Jews are a monolithic people of exclusively white European ancestry. In their new book, In Every Tongue (Institute for Jewish & Community Research, $25, 251 pages) noted scholar Gary A. Tobin and co- authors and show that American Jews are a multiracial people -- perhaps the most diverse people in history.
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