The COVID-19 pandemic means local Muslims this Ramadan can t invite their interfaith neighbors to large celebratory meals to break their fast each night, but area faith leaders say they ve found other ways to build connections with the community.
Ramadan, which begins Monday, April 12, is a holy month during which Muslims fast from sunrise to sunset. Community iftars the meals that break fast are a way to invite others to learn more about Islam and build bridges through eating together, said Imran Malik, spokesman for NOOR Islamic Cultural Center, a mosque in Hilliard. The pandemic has restricted some activities, Malik said. But it has replaced them with other forms of acts of kindness and acts of spirituality.
month-to-month leases were terminated so the new management can do renovations.
“I don’t have any plans,” she said, speaking Somali through an interpreter. “I asked him, Can you give me a second chance? Six months
to find a house? I have kids taking online classes, I don’t know where to go. ”
Lissa Ellegood, regional property manager at Cincinnati-based Heritage Hill Capital Partners, said what the complex is doing is no different than when a resident would come into the office and give us a 30-day notice to vacate if they were a 30-day tenant.
Despite that, the situation has caught the attention of community advocates and the city of Columbus. Not because it is illegal, but because of the timing and the vulnerable population involved.