“The play is expressing many things that are sensitive to the culture and holding them in a loving way,” said Heather Raffo, writer and actor. “It’s expressing taboos but working through them in open-hearted, familial ways, so the young women felt very represented and challenged by the piece.”
Read MoreMarian High School’s Chaldean population is nearly 30%. As the all-girls Catholic school rises in popularity among Chaldeans, its connection with our community has become deep and inextricable.
Read MoreIn today’s world of constant consumerism, it can be challenging to teach children the value of giving. It is an extremely important to lesson to teach, however; the feeling you get when you gift something truly thoughtful and appreciated transcends the satisfaction of receiving and may change a person’s whole outlook on the season and the reason for giving.
Read MoreMichigan Democrats stole the show in the 2022 midterm elections, but success at the ballot box might not signal continuing Democratic dominance in future elections.
Read MoreIn Alqosh, the old village is designed to be used as a tourist attraction. The intention is to bring more business to Alqosh city and create a stronger economy. It is a perfect location to create movies reflecting that era, and an educational tool for teaching people about the old ways.
Read MoreOn Saturday, November 5, the Chaldean Cultural Center held a half-day conference for writers of Mesopotamian ancestry at Shenandoah Country Club.
Read MoreLast month, several small retailers located in the City of Southfield received letters from various code enforcement agents on behalf of the city. The letters asked these retailers, which tended to be independently-owned gas stations, to move any “outside storage containers” inside.
Read MoreThe Chaldean Community Foundation (CCF) officially has boots on the ground in Alqosh, Iraq. For the past 6 months, it has had a working relationship with two local surveyors, Ghazwan and Hanan, who will begin taking a full census of the state of the Chaldean villages and remaining families following the destruction and chaos of the ISIS invasion just a few years ago.
Read MoreOn Friday, October 14, the Chaldean American Chamber of Commerce (CACC) hosted its 16th annual Business Luncheon at the MotorCity Casino Hotel in downtown Detroit. Approximately 250 community leaders, businesspeople, and dignitaries filled the tables inside the Sound Board Theater and prepared for a discussion about politics and the upcoming elections in Michigan.
Read MorePollster Steve Mitchell had Republican veteran and businessman John James leading by nine points over former state Circuit Court Judge and Macomb County Prosecutor Carl Marlinga in an August poll. Mitchell said the Detroit News had James ahead by eight points in mid-October.
Read MoreMichigan’s gubernatorial race is getting tighter as the candidates head into the final turn and bread-and-butter issues like the economy and jobs close the gap with abortion and women’s rights as voters’ top concerns.
Read MoreThe rhetoric of the 2022 election season has made clear — even to the most casual observer —that Republicans and Democrats have some intractable differences of opinion when it comes to hot-button issues.
Read MoreSeptember 14 has become known as “Chaldean Day” at the National Shrine of the Cross in the Woods in Indian River, Michigan. For roughly 30 years, crowds of Chaldeans have headed to the shrine on that day to celebrate Holy Cross Day.
Read MoreStorms have no borders; dust storms show no mercy or dust, diplomacy. Dust storms over Iraq and the Middle East have become a huge problem for the countries involved as well as their citizens, impacting their health, the economy, the environment, and agriculture.
Read MoreTesqopa, sometimes called Tel Skuf, is an ancient village located in the Nineveh Plain of northern Iraq. Targeted first by Mongols and then by ISIS, Tesqopa has remained a village of the Assyrians who proclaim the Christian faith.
Read MoreContinued from September 2022 issue: In January 2017, the Trump administration announced its so-called Muslim ban, which was challenged by the ACLU and was revised and reissued a few times before being finalized in March 2017. Iraq was on the initial list and then was dropped from the final declaration, after confidential negotiations that Secretary of State Rex Tillerson called an example of “close cooperation” between the two governments. In return for being dropped from the travel ban, Iraq’s government agreed to repatriate Iraqis that the United States wanted to deport. Suddenly, the decades-old mutual understanding about Iraqi deportation was over.
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The stage is set for November’s general elections, and the race in Michigan’s state House 20th District promises to be a close one.
Read MoreThe Chaldean Community Foundation (CCF) in Sterling Heights honored Akram Kareem (aka Hermiz) at their 4th annual Gala on September 29 as Humanitarian of the Year.
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