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Hindu American Temple School (HATS)

HATS Portal/Site Here you will find weekly updates, class details, calendar, teacher info, contacts, educational resources, registration, and much much more! HATS Volunteers, Parents, and Students – PLEASE CHECK THE GOOGLE SITE REGULARLY! Please save the Google Sites as a favorite/bookmark on your device. ​ Contact hatsadministrator@hsmn.org for further questions/inquiries. Mission Statement To Promote the understanding of […]

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Community

A Hindu-American Lawyer’s Quest

Sai Santosh Kumar Kolluru Introduction Swami Vivekananda’s famous speech at the Parliament of World Religions in 1893 introduced Hinduism2 to the West. As an ambassador of one of the most ancient traditions of the world, he conveyed the essence of the Vedas, the universal acceptance of all traditions: “as the different streams having their sources in different places…all lead […]

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Education

Rocket Science: Indian American Parents Struggle to Figure Out How to School Their Kids

By Anu Ghosh To go virtual or not, that is the question plaguing school districts across the 50 states. With teachers’ unions, board of education officials, along with scientists, government officials, parents and the White House on opposite sides of the fence, this has been a hotly debated issue across the country.  A recent poll […]

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Opinion

Hinduism misunderstood in N.America: Jeff D.Long

CHICAGO: Jeffery D. Long is a Professor of Religion and Asian Studies at Elizabethtown College in Pennsylvania. He is associated with the Vedanta Society, Dharma Academy of North America (DANAM) and Hindu American Foundation (HAF). His formulations of “Hindu process theology” focus on religious pluralism from the perspective of A.N. Whitehead’s process philosophy. His books […]

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Video

A Day In The Life Of A Hindu Priest

How does a Hindu Priest fill his time? To find out, TrueTube followed Krishan around with a camera for a day. For more free videos and resources visit https://www.truetube.co.uk Subscribe to TrueTube’s channel:    / @truetube5717   Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TrueTube/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/TrueTube Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/truetube

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Immigration

Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Recent Policy Changes in Immigration Law and Afraid to Ask

by Amy Ghosh There is a misconception among the majority of the immigrant community that the Trump administration has made numerous changes to Immigration Law but in actuality that is not the case. The executive branch of the government cannot make or change a law, only the legislative branch can. The Trump administration has made […]

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History

Trade and Transcendentalism

The Pluralism Project | Harvard University The ideas and culture of Hindu India have had an impact on America for nearly two centuries. The history of relations between India and America probably begins with the trading ships that sailed back and forth from Salem and Boston to India in the early nineteenth century, carrying “missionaries […]

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Religion

Vivekananda at the Parliament

The Pluralism Project | Harvard University Despite more than fifty years of interest in Indian thought, few Americans at the close of the 19th century had yet met a Hindu. So in the late summer of 1893, when a handsome, young Hindu reformer, Swami Vivekananda, arrived in Boston before the opening of the World’s Parliament […]

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Religion

The transformation from Narendranath to Vivekananda

by Swami Chetanananda Today we are celebrating a very auspicious occasion, as all of us from all over the world have come here to pay our homage to Swami Vivekananda in connection with his 150th birth anniversary. Chicago is a very, very holy place. Swamiji arrived here on 30 July 1893 and he gave his […]

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Community

George Floyd death: Indo-American businessman Rahul Dubey opens doors to protestors, hailed as a ‘hero’

An Indian-American businessman, who opened the doors of his home in Washington to over 70 people demonstrating against the custodial killing of George Floyd, has emerged as a hero after he helped some strangers, fed them and made sure they were safe in his house, according to US media reports. The death of 46-year-old African-American […]

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