Source: News Channel 10

http://www.turnto10.com/news/2310456/detail.html

On July 3, 2003 News Channel 10 reported that "New Bedford residents say there is no place in their city for hatred... More than 150 people from various ethnic and religious backgrounds gathered on the steps of City Hall Wednesday to condemn last week's brutal attack on a pizza delivery man... Bhalerao is recovering at home from his injuries and was unable to attend the event. Organizers read a...

Source: India Cause

http://www.indiacause.com/Cause/C21_OM_Socks.htm

On July 3, 2003 India Cause reported that "IndiaCause sent formal letter to the President of Gold Medal Hosiery, Mr.Paul Rotstein... [regarding] a product (socks with 'OM') distributed by Gold Medal Hosiery in New York." Mr. Rotstein replied, "Gold Medal Hosiery in New York, which distributes the offending socks, declined to comment. The label on the socks says the product has been made in South Korea....

Source: Seattle Post-Intelligencer

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/129120_cwong02.html

On July 2, 2003 the Seattle Post-Intelligencer reported that "for Hindus in the Northwest, [the Hindu Temple and Cultural Center] has become a central place to worship a supreme being and focus on the different deities who symbolize this God and non-violence, prosperity, good health, respect and knowing right from wrong... But the largest Hindu temple in the area is also a...

Source: The Standard-Times

http://www.southcoasttoday.com/daily/07-03/07-01-03/a01lo003.htm

On July 1, 2003 The Standard-Times reported that "resting on an old mattress next to several Hindu texts, Saurabh Bhalerao struggled yesterday to describe the four men police said brutally attacked him last week because they thought he was a Muslim... 'Ignorance is the best word I can use,' he said, whispering through a jaw wired shut. 'They do not know about the...

Source: Barsana Dham Qarterly Newsletter

On July 1, 2003 the Barsana Dham Quarterly Newsletter reported that "K.C. Gupta, President of the Hindu University of America, and Dr. Vijay Mahajan, highly acclaimed marketing professor at the University of Texas, Austin, unveiled the logo for The Vedic Foundation during the annual Barsana Dham Mela in April. 'The Hindu University looks forward to collaborating with The Vedic Foundation and working towards the common objective of re-establishing the greatness of authentic Hinduism,' Gupta said... The Vedic...

Source: The Standard-Times

http://www.s-t.com/daily/06-03/06-29-03/a06lo021.htm

On June 29, 2003 The Standard-Times reported that "friends of beating victim Saurabh Bhalerao say they haven't experienced the kind of hate that police believe motivated four attackers who mistook him for a Muslim... Fellow UMass Dartmouth student Bhushan Bauskar said the perpetrators would have beaten Mr. Bhalerao, who is Indian and Hindu, even if they hadn't thought he was Muslim... Also...

Source: Newsday

http://www.newsday.com/features/ny-lsfaith0628,0,4818410.story

On June 28, 2003 Newsday reported that "under a Jewish wedding canopy called a chupah, in front of a Christian unity candle and with a Cherokee prayer, Richard Goidel and Debra George were married earlier this month... It wasn't easy to find clergy willing to perform an interfaith ceremony, says George, 44, a widow. Some wouldn't return her phone calls and some admonished her, she...

Source: Mercury News

http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/6182961.htm

On June 27, 2003 the Mercury News reported that "Silicon Valley's Indo-American community has an influence over homeland politics perhaps unprecedented for an immigrant group... So it is not surprising that a convention of expatriates to be held Saturday at the Santa Clara Marriott attempts to pull together an array of groups varied in religion, but with the same political aim...

Source: The Standard-Times

http://www.southcoasttoday.com/daily/06-03/06-27-03/a09lo052.htm

On June 27, 2003 The Standard-Times reported that "community leaders from across the state yesterday denounced the robbery and beating of a pizza delivery man, an attack local police have categorized as a hate crime... Two local Domino's Pizza franchise owners, Nelson Hockert-Lotz and Anthony Squizzero, offered a $1,000 reward for information leading to the arrest...

Source: Reuters

Source: The Anti-Defamation League

http://www.adl.org/presrele/hatcr_51/4277_51.asp

On June 25, 2003 The Anti-Defamation League issued a press release stating that "The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today condemned the attack of an Indian graduate student in a deplorable hate crime... Robert Leikind, ADL New England Regional Director, issued the following statement: This week, our community was shaken by a deplorable crime -- the attack on Saurabh Bhalerao in New Bedford on...

Source: The Standard-Times

http://www.southcoasttoday.com/daily/06-03/06-24-03/a01lo002.htm

On June 24, 2003 The Standard-Times reported that "the crime was a violent attack on a peaceful man, said Dr. Madhu Jhaveri, the adviser to the Indian Students Association at UMass Dartmouth. Mr. Bhalerao came from Indore, India, and was president of the association for 18 months starting in 2001... During his tenure, Dr. Jhaveri said, Mr. Bhalerao frequently drove...

Source: Standard-Times

http://www.s-t.com/daily/06-03/06-25-03/a01lo005.htm

On June 24, 2003 the Standard-Times reported that "a vicious robbery of a pizza delivery man escalated when the assailants mistook the graduate student for a Muslim, Fairhaven police said yesterday, as they filed hate crime charges against a second man arrested in the attack... Police Chief Gary F. Souza said Ryan Marsh, 17, of 369 Brook St. was one of four men who helped ambush Saurabh...

Source: Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal

Source: Dallas Morning News

http://www.kansas.com/mld/eagle/6136000.htm

On June 21, 2003 the Dallas Morning News reported that "in recognition of the radical changes in the American religious landscape of the past 30 years, [The Pluralism Project, Webby-award winning Web site developed by Diana L. Eck at Harvard University] was initiated to study and document religious communities, particularly those of immigrant communities... Through...