Religion and Interfaith in the News
Russian Muslims and Jews reject "Orthodox Party" idea, RIANOVOSTI.com, January 25, 2012
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Jewish, Arab parents gather together to discuss education, Ynetnews.com, January 17, 2012
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Clearwater, Florida Christians, Jews and Muslims build a Habitat for Humanity home, Tampa Bay Times, January 11, 2012
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Israeli Arabs Enter Jewish Classrooms, FoxNews.com, December 22, 2011By the Associated Press. In an educational revolution of sorts, a growing number of Israeli schools are taking a novel approach to the instruction of Arabic: they are hiring Arab teachers. The initiative is about far more than teaching children a new language. Educators say they hope to break down barriers in a society where Jewish and Arab citizens have little day-to-day interaction and often view each other with suspicion . . . Read the article. |
Catholics, Muslims pursue dialogue amid Mideast tension, Reuters, November 25, 2011
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Jews and Muslims work together to feed the homeless, MyCentralJersey.com, November 23, 2011By Cheryl Makin. In Middlesex and Somerset counties in New Jersey, Jewish and Muslim groups worked together on Sunday to feed the homeless on November 20th. In the spirit of Thanksgiving, more than 100 members of the Muslims Against Hunger Project, Rutgers Shalom-Salaam and the Foundation for Ethnic Understanding gathered at the Muslim Foundation Inc. mosque in Somerset to cook meals from both religions’ cookbooks . . . Read the article. |
St. Louis Jewish and Muslim groups plan Christmas service projects, St. Louis Jewish Light, November 16, 2011On December 25, 2011, the Jewish Community Relations Council of St. Louis (JCRC), the Islamic Foundation of Greater St. Louis and the National Council of Jewish Women-St. Louis Section (NCJW) are sponsoring the first ever St. Louis area-wide "Jewish and Muslim Day of Service." Twenty-one agencies have been identified in the St. Louis area as sites that will host volunteers on Christmas. Although the event is being organized by the Jewish and Muslim communities, volunteers of all backgrounds and faiths are being encouraged to participate . . . Read the article. |
Yom Kippur helps Muslim woman rediscover her Jewish roots, The Huffington Post, October 7, 2011Reima Yosif, a devout Muslim, discovered a surprising family secret a few years ago. Her grandmother, who was raised in Italian-controlled North Africa, was of Jewish decent. She had hidden her background to protect her safety as Jews in Italian colonies were sent to concentration camps during World War II. With the start of Yom Kippur this year, Yosif has joined the spiritual journey for the first time . . . Read the article. |
Film on role of Paris mosque in saving Jews during Holocaust, The New York Times, October 3, 2011
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Imam: Holocaust denial cannot be an Islamic cause, Washington Jewish Week, September 21, 2011
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Trying to put a price on Middle East peace, Bloomberg Businessweek, August 11, 2011By Elizabeth Dwoskin. Since July, 2002, a small group of Israeli and Palestinian economists have been meeting in the idyllic French village of Aix-en-Provence to determine what the costs might be of a permanent peace treaty between the Israelis and Palestinians. The leaders of the Aix Group, as it has come to be known, are two economists — Arie Arnon, a left-leaning professor at Ben-Gurion University, who was a child of Holocaust survivors and a veteran of the Six Day War; and Saeb Bamya, a Palestinian refugee from Jaffa, who has became a high-ranking official in the Palestinian administration. Their latest estimate of the cost of a two-state solution resolving the problem of Palestinian refugees is $85 billion . . . Read the article. |
Israeli museum showing Arab artists, Huffington Post, August 21, 2011
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Trying to put a price on Middle East peace, Bloomberg Businessweek, August 11, 2011
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Jewish and Muslim teens meet in Kiev, Ynetnews.com, July 12, 2011According to organizers, more than 70 young Jewish and Muslim leaders from 25 countries have met in Kiev, Ukraine to demonstrate that a new generation of Muslims and Jews can overcome decades of mutual fear and demonization and build a brighter future for both communities . . . Read the article. |
Facebook Page Allows Strangers in Mideast to Seem Less Strange, The New York Times, July 9, 2011By Ethan Bronner. A new Facebook page called YaLa-Young Leaders, created by a former Israeli diplomat and unambiguous about its links to Israel, has had 91,000 views in its first month. Of its 22,500 active users, 60 percent are Arabs — mostly Palestinians, followed by Egyptians, Jordanians, Tunisians, Moroccans, Lebanese and Saudis. The page has Israelis and Palestinians and other Arabs talking about everything at once: the prospects of peace, of course, but also soccer, photography and music . . . Read the article . . . View the page |
An Effort to Foster Tolerance in Religion, The New York Times, June 13, 2011By Laurie Goodstein. Eboo Patel, a Rhodes scholar in Chicago, with a doctorate in the sociology of religion from Oxford gathers college students of different religions together not just to talk, but also to work together to feed the hungry, tutor children or build housing. There are many interfaith groups, but none like Mr. Patel’s, where youthful idealism and spiritual searching have been channeled by pro bono consultants from McKinsey & Company into strategic plans, templates and spreadsheets . . . Read the article. |
Newly ordained rabbi to focus on Muslim-Jewish relations , The Kansas City Jewish Chronicle, June, 2011
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Anti-sharia laws stir concerns that halachah could be next, JTA.org, April 28, 2011By Ron Kampeas. With conservative lawmakers across the United States trying to outlaw sharia, or Islamic religious law, Jewish organizations are concerned that halachah could be next. If the state legislative initiatives targeting sharia are successful, they would gut a central tenet of American Jewish religious communal life: the ability under U.S. law to resolve differences according to halachah, or Jewish religious law . . . Read the article. |
US Mosque Hosts Passover Seder, Voice of America, April 25, 2011By Dora Mekouar. The All Dulles Area Muslim Society, a large mosque outside of Washington, D.C., has for the past three years hosted a Passover Seder for Jews and Muslims in conjunction with the Washington Area Jews for Jewish-Muslim Understanding . . . Read the article. |
In Prague, balancing Muslim-Jewish ties with shul leadership, JTA.org, April 15, 2011By Symi Rom-Rymer. In Prague, Karel Goldmann proposed to his fellow synagogue board members a low-key, meet-and-greet between the members of Bejt Simcha, one of Prague’s progressive synagogues, and Emir Omič, the imam of Prague. Goldmann’s idea was to give members of his community a chance to learn about Islam from a Muslim leader . . . Read the article. |
First Muslim-Jewish dialogue centre opens in Cambridge, U.K., Varsity, April 12, 2011By Tom Woolford. A new Centre for the Study of Muslim-Jewish Relations has opened at Cambridge University. The Centre was opened by Chief Rabbi Sir Jonathan Sacks. Its aims, explains co-founder Dr Edward Kessler, are to “pursue teaching, dialogue and research into the encounter between Muslims and Jews” . . . Read the article. |
Program to train pastors, imams, rabbis Together, Voice of America, February 25, 2011By Monaliza Noormohammadi. An innovative program at the Claremont College School of Theology plans to train Muslim, Jewish, and Christian clergy together . . . Read the article. |
World Interfaith Harmony Week, January 26 - February 27, 2011By proclamation of the United Nations General Assembly, the first week in February is World Interfaith Harmony Week . . . Read all about the events for this occasion. |
Imams, rabbis meet in Brussels to improve Muslim-Jewish ties, Jerusalem Post, December 7, 2010By Jonah Mandel. A delegation of Muslim and Jewish religious leaders from Europe met with European Council President Herman Van Rompuy in Brussels to share their initiatives for bettering the relations between the communities, as well as legislation to ensure the rights of the religious groups in Europe . . . Read the article. |
Health fair unites Jewish and Muslim providers to help the poor, Detroit News, November 08. 2010By Leonard N. Fleming. At the Interfaith Health Fair in Detroit, jointly sponsored by the Jewish Community Relations Council and the Council of Islamic Organizations of Michigan, more than 120 people were screened and more than 25 percent were found to need immediate medical assistance or a follow-up visit . . . Read the article. |
Muslim president inaugurates Jewish school, Ynetnews.com, November 07. 2010By Dmitriy Prokofyev. Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev recently visited a Jewish education center in the capital city of Baku to inaugurate a religious school. Upon his arrival, the president was applauded and cheered by the ceremony's attendees. "I hope the graduates of this school will be proud Jews as well as proud Azerbaijani citizens," he said . . . Read the article. |
Interfaith Exhibit at the New York Public Library, NYPL.org, Now through February 27, 2011Over the millennia, Jews, Christians, and Muslims have each created a rich body of founding texts and interpretive underpinnings for their respective faiths, each of which derives from the teachings of Abraham. This exhibition, at the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building (5th Avenue), treats these three great Abrahamic religions, setting forth in splendid and historic detail the complementarities and differences among them, explaining their development, and exploring their lived experience through public and private prayer . . . Read the article. |
Test Your Savvy on Religion, The New York Times, October 9, 2010By Nicholas D. Kristof. The New York Times reported recently on a Pew Research Center poll in which religious people turned out to be remarkably uninformed about religion . . . Here is a chance to take the quiz. |
NY Catholic, Jewish, and Muslim cops tour the Holy Land, Ynetnews.com, September 10, 2010Originally published in Reuters. Forty seven New York City police officers go on the first of what they hope will be annual visits to Israel, the Palestinian territories, and Egypt to get know each others' religions – and each other – better . . . Read the article. |
Jewish groups step up efforts to combat anti-Muslim bigotry, JTA.com, September 7, 2010By Sue Fishkoff. Jewish groups have stepped up efforts to combat anti-Muslim bigotry, with several national initiatives announced this week and supporting statements coming in from a range of Jewish voices . . . Read the article. |
Jewish director Julian Schnabel brings Palestine to Venice, Guardian.co.uk, September 2, 2010By Mark Brown. The American artist and film-maker Julian Schnabel said he felt a "responsibility" as a Jew to tell the story of Palestine when he opened his new movie at the Venice film festival. Schnabel's film, Miral, is told mainly through the eyes of two Palestinian women, covering 40 years of history from the birth of the state of Israel in 1948 to the failed Oslo peace accord of 1993 . . . Read the article. |
An interfaith journey to Auschwitz, The Newark Star-Ledger (NJ.com), August 16, 2010By Jeff Diamant. A New Jersey rabbi leads a group of Jews and Muslims, including eight imans, on a mournful trip to Auschwitz and Dachau. The imams also met with the Roman Catholic Cardinal of Krakow and the chief rabbi of Poland. After their return, the imams released a statement citing the six million Jewish deaths in the Holocaust, among 12 million Holocaust deaths overall, and added: "We condemn any attempts to deny this historical reality and declare such denials or any justification of this tragedy as against the Islamic code of ethics." In individual interviews, the imams said the trip affected them deeply . . . Read the article. |
Understanding the nuances of the Islamic World, The New York Times, August 16, 2010By William Dalrymple. Westerners often have a difficult time understanding the many divisions, complexities and nuances within the Islamic world — a failure that hampers Western efforts to fight Islamic extremism and to reconcile Americans with peaceful adherents of Islam. The author discusses Sufism in Pakistan, with its emphasis on love rather than judgment, and the roles of the moderate, pluralistic Sufi imams in the front line against terrorism. . . Read the article. |
Israel risks alienating diaspora over definition of a Jew, Telegraph.co.uk, July 23, 2010By Adrian Blomfield. Israel has been warned it risks alienating the Jewish diaspora with controversial proposals to redefine who has the right to be called a Jew. The row has left Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, as an unwilling arbitrator in a stand-off of potentially historic proportions between American Jewish leaders and senior figures in his own coalition. . . Read the article. |
Six steps to real interfaith work – “On Faith”, Washingtonpost.com, June 21, 2010By Pastor Bob Roberts. Following the recent Global Leadership Forum on Evangelicals and Muslims, hosted at Georgetown University, Pastor Bob Roberts offers six steps for how to move beyond dialogue to action. He notes that many interfaith dialogues are driven by liberal Christians and moderate Muslims, but that conservative Christians and Muslims must also do their best to work together despite “irreconcilable” theological differences. . . Read the article. |
Mystical Form of Islam Suits Sufis in Pakistan, The New York Times, February 25, 2010By Sabrina Tavernise. For those who think Pakistan is all hard-liners, all the time, three activities at an annual festival here may come as a surprise. . . Read the article. |
Americans' bias against Jews, Muslims linked, poll says, Washington Post, January 21, 2010By Michelle Boorstein. A poll about Americans' views on Islam concludes that the strongest predictor of prejudice against Muslims is whether a person holds similar feelings about Jews. . . Read the article. |
Rabbis, Jewish groups back Muslims on minaret ban, Jerusalem Post, December 4, 2009By Matthew Wagner and Herb Keinon. Voters in Switzerland recently voted to outlaw construction of minarets. Jewish organizations have come to the defense of Muslim worshipers, arguing that the Swiss move was unjustifiable religious discrimination. “The best weapon against radical Islam is support for moderate elements in the Muslim community and promoting interfaith dialogue, said Rabbi Pinchas Dunner, Executive Director of the Conference of European Rabbis. . . Read the article. |
Redefining the “Jewish” in the Jewish State, Common Ground News Service, November 12, 2009By Rabbi Marc Gopin. Rabbi Dr. Marc Gopin, Director of the Center for World Religions, Diplomacy and Conflict Resolution at George Mason University, takes a fresh and critical look at what it means, and what it could mean in the ideal sense, for Israel to be a “Jewish” state. . . Read the article. |
Peace is not a competition among faiths: Jews, Muslims and Christians can seek, and do seek, stability in the Holy Land, Minneapolis Star Tribute, August 18, 2009By Rabbi Amy Eilberg, Wael Khouli, and Charles Lutz. A newly formed group, Minnesota Advocates for Israeli-Palestinian Peace, links those of Jewish, Christian and Muslim heritage who share the goal of a just and lasting peace for Israeli and Palestinians and who are committed to working for peace in their own communities. . . Read the article. |
Pope Benedict XVI Calls for Holy Land’s Religious Leaders to Reject Hatred, Telegraph, May 14, 2009By Tim Butcher. The Pope brought his message of reconciliation to the Holy Land, including appearances at several interfaith gatherings. "Let everyone reject the destructive power of hatred and prejudice, which kills men's souls before it kills their bodies,'' declared the Pope in Nazereth. "Lord, grant us peace," said Benedict. . . Read the article. |
Muslim Charity Helps Jews Celebrate Passover, Yemen Times, April 13, 2009By Khaled Al-Hilaly. Despite the difficulties faced by Yemen’s ancient Jewish community, Passover brought out the best in both communities and showed the potential for healing and friendship within the Abrahamic family. . . Read the article. |
Iraq is Alive Again says Zainab al-Suwaij
Zainab al-Suwaij, Executive Director of the American Islamic Congress, talks about her recent visit to Iraq and the massive participation of women and religious parties in the democratic process. . . Read more.
An Open Letter and Call from Muslim Religious Leaders to His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI. October 13, 2007.
Read the letter.
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