Community 

What: The St. Paul Interfaith Network invites the community to its third annual Interfaith Passover Seder. Led by adult and youth leaders of several religious traditions, the Seder expresses the universal longing for freedom, justice, and transformation in our lives and in our world through ritual, readings, songs and a shared meal.

When: Sunday, March 21, 2010, 4:30 - 8:00pm

Where: Temple of Aaron, 616 S. Mississippi River Blvd, St. Paul, MN 55116

For more information, please click here.

 

HAF is now registered with BloodSource as part of the donor club.  For anyone in the Northern and Central California regions who donates blood, you can now recognize HAF as your organization affiliation!  Mention the Hindu American Foundation or file #5268.  For more information, visit www.BloodSource.org or contact Terry Rubstello at BloodSource at (866) 822.5663 ext. 60028. 

 

When is HAF coming to your area?  

See a list of upcoming HAF Awareness Membership Drives, please visit the Events section.

 

Take a moment to read four inspiring original essays penned by young Hindu Americans from around the country. These winners of HAF's first NextGen Essay contest articulately expressed the importance of maintaining their Hindu American identity and demonstrated the bright future of the next generation of Hindu American leaders. Please click here to read these four outstanding essays.

In response to the Hindu American Foundation and several other Hindu organizations submitting comments expressing concerns of the inherent Judeo-Christian bias in the list of religious workers and occupations in the R-1 visa program regulations, the U.S. Immigration and Citizenship Service (USCIS) removed the list in the new regulations, leaving open the opportunity for individual temples to describe on their own such religious workers and occupations.  

To best serve the needs of the community as well as provide the USCIS some standardized terminology which will increase familiarity with Hindu practice and temple needs, the Hindu American Foundation has created a descriptive list of possible religious worker positions that a Hindu temple in the U.S. may need in order to meet its functions. It is by no means exhaustive, either in terms of potential positions or descriptions and is for instructional purposes only. Please click here to view the full listing of descriptions.

 

The Hindu American Foundation would like to take the opportunity to update you on the results of rulemaking the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) religious worker and special immigrant programs underwent in late 2006.  Rulemaking, as we explained previously, is the process by which federal agencies formulate or amend new regulations. The rulemaking process generally consists of a proposed rule stage, a comment period and final rule stage. As part of the rulemaking process, the agency is required to consider the public comments received on the proposed regulation and if appropriate, incorporate responses to the issues raised by those who submitted comments. 

Please click here to view a summary of the major changes. 

Please click here to view the Diwali 2009 site.