by MATTHEW NASH – Sequim Gazette Jan 25, 2012 In an effort to bridge the gap of religious differences in America, the Interfaith Amigos are creating fresh dialogue across the country and soon will open up a conversation in Sequim. Three compadres from Christian, Jewish and Islamic backgrounds — the Rev. Don Mackenzie, Rabbi Ted …
Category Archive: MUSLIM-JEWISH
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Jan
26
Interfaith dialogue presents opportunities
By SAMAR FATANY Jan 22, 2012 Let us establish business partnerships and support joint projects between faith-based organizations Exploring what the Abrahamic faiths have in common was the theme of an interfaith dialogue held in Atlanta’s All Saints Episcopal Church on the sidelines of the recent US-Saudi Business Opportunities Forum. The Saudi Committee of International …
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Jan
05
Interfaith harmony camp for students
Saturday, December 31, 2011 LAHORE AN NGO held a three-day Interfaith Harmony Camp at St Anthony’s High School, Lawrence Road, Lahore. The camp was aimed at enabling young students of three religions to develop mutual understanding and trust among each other. A group of 60 students aged 14-16 years from Muslim, Christian and Sikh religions …
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Jan
05
Holy Land pilgrimage can lead to inter-religious understanding
by Judith Sudilovsky 3 January 2012 ——————————————————————————– Jerusalem (ENInews). Pilgrims to the Holy Land who are searching for the roots of Christianity can also gain a surprisingly rich understanding of other religions, according to a prominent Franciscan clergyman. “A pilgrim does not come to the Holy Land to understand politics or to understand the geography. …
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Dec
25
Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Senior Religious Leaders Come Together
Dec. 23, 2011 NEW YORK, NY, Dec 23, 2011 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) — Stephen Wise Free Synagogue convenes 16 senior religious leaders from New York City to promote peace and understanding through a first of its kind mission to Israel. The program is intended to create and broadcast a positive model of interfaith relations based …
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Dec
22
Christmas Eve brings together Houston Jews, Muslims
by Kate Shellnutt -Houston Chronicles December 21, 2011 On Christmas Eve, Jews and Muslims may find themselves with nothing to do while Christian neighbors plan fancy dinners and special church services. For the past two years, the Jewish and Muslim communities in Houston have taken advantage of their free schedules to gather together to learn …
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Dec
07
Understanding interfaith connections
By Osama Eshera Monday, December 5, 2011 Last month, I took part in a series of interfaith events at this university in which Jewish students joined their Muslim counterparts at Friday Prayer, and the Muslim students attended Kabbalat Shabbat in the evening. It was, for me, the first interfaith event of its kind and left …
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Dec
02
Beth El Temple Invites Community To Shabbat Program On Interfaith Dialogue
by Carin Buckman, Beth El Temple, 2011-11-28 Why should Jews engage in dialogue and establish relationships with Christians and Muslims? What are the benefits and risks of such engagement? Find out the answers to these and other fascinating questions as Professor Yehezkel Landau, the Director of the interfaith training program for Jews, Christians and Muslims …
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Nov
28
How can we improve interfaith dialogue?
-THE OTTAWACITIZEN.com NOVEMBER 27, 2011 Rev. RAY INNEN PARCHELO is a novice Tendai priest and founder of the Red Maple Sangha, the first lay Buddhist community in Eastern Ontario. It hasn’t always been fashionable to consider seriously faiths other than one’s own. My co-worker remembers telling a friend and church-mate that she was soon to …
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Nov
25
Can Jews, Muslims and Christians all get along?
by RICHARD LLOYD November 24, 2011 Over the past 18 months, Middle Tennessee has been thrust uncomfortably into the spotlight of national debates about the place of Islam in American society, owing to controversies over the proposed Islamic Center in Murfreesboro and proposed state legislation outlawing the practice of Sharia law. Not surprisingly, disproportionate attention …
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Nov
24
Muslim, Jewish volunteers work as a team to feed hungry, homeless
by Cheryl Makin – MyCentralJersey.com Nov. 23, 2011 FRANKLIN — While peace in the Middle East seems elusive to many, Muslim and Jewish volunteers in Middlesex and Somerset counties joyfully worked together on Sunday to feed the homeless. In the spirit of Thanksgiving, more than 100 members of the Muslims Against Hunger Project, Rutgers Shalom-Salaam …
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Nov
23
Jews, Muslims hold world’s largest dialogue
by Ynetnews 11.23.11 Foundation for Ethnic Understanding facilitates 125 events with participation of 250 Muslim, Jewish organizations in 26 countries in four continents Thousands of Muslims and Jews across North America, Europe, the Middle East and Africa participated last weekend in The Foundation for Ethnic Understanding’s (FFEU) 4th annual Weekend of Twinning. Since 2008, FFEU …
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Nov
22
‘Abraham Jam’ Interfaith Music Concert
“‘Abraham Jam’ Interfaith Music Concert Organized By Students of Duke, NC State and Chapel Hill” By Yonat Shimron – HuffingtonPost 11/21/11 DURHAM, N.C. (RNS) Say the word “interfaith” and the next word to roll off the tongue is probably “dialogue.” It’s hard to think of one without the other. But college students know there are …
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Nov
20
Art’s Doing Well as Path to Interfaith Dialogue
by Mordechai Shinefield, Jewish Exponent Feature November 16, 2011 – Ten years ago, Cathleen Cohen began calling artists in the Philadelphia community with the idea of using poetry and the arts to begin a dialogue with local Muslim and Christian communities. Until then, she had worked primarily alone in the Jewish community, teaching poetry in …
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Nov
19
Students ‘do interfaith’ through universal language of music
By Yonat Shimron – WASHINGTON POST November 18 2011 DURHAM, N.C. — Say the word “interfaith” and the next word to roll off the tongue is probably “dialogue.” It’s hard to think of one without the other. But college students know there are other ways to communicate, and music may be chief among them. Students …
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Oct
16
Muslim and Jewish scholars to hold dialogue
by Mario Toneguzzi, Calgary Herald October 15, 2011 Rabbis and Islamic scholars in Calgary are meeting to discuss their views on the meaning and relevance of their religion’s holiest scriptures. They will be presenting their views on their holy books and what makes them holy and what the holy books say about peace and interfaith …
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Oct
10
Rabbis Stand In Solidarity With Burned Mosque In Israel
By Josef Kuhn – HUFFINGTONPOST 10/9/11 WASHINGTON (RNS) More than a thousand rabbis from around the world have signed a statement denouncing the burning of an Israeli mosque as police arrested a suspect who is alleged to be a Jewish extremist. “We condemn those in Israel who exacerbate conflict and strife, and who insist that …
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Oct
07
Dialogue Decalogue
by Leonard Swidler, Temple University Dialogue in the interreligious, interideological sense is a conversation on a common subject between people with differing views undertaken so that they can learn from one another and grow. The Dialogue Decalogue formulated by Prof. Leonard Swidler sets forth the ground rules for dialogue. FIRST COMMANDMENT The essential purpose of …
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Oct
07
Reflections on Ramadan Dinners at Churches/Synagogues
by Peace Islands Institute October 06, 2011 The Peace Islands Institute (PII), formerly the Interfaith Dialog Center, was active throughout Ramadan, August 2011, with Iftar organizations at various churches and synagogues (friendship gatherings), and home dinners (neighborliness project) where Turkish-American families hosted their non-Muslim friends at their homes. As PII, we believe by breaking bread …
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Oct
07
Signs of stronger interfaith dialogue in U.S. since 9/11
By Shlomo Shamir HAARETZ.com 12.09.11 NEW YORK – While the eyes of Americans and many others the world over were fixed Sunday on the main event marking a decade after 9/11 at Ground Zero in New York, Christians, Jews and Muslims were due to meet at joint inter-faith ceremonies and dialogues and together recall the …
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Oct
05
Heroic Tale of Holocaust, With a Twist
PARIS — The stories of the Holocaust have been documented, distorted, clarified and filtered through memory. Yet new stories keep coming, occasionally altering the grand, incomplete mosaic of Holocaust history. One of them, dramatized in a French film released here last week, focuses on an unlikely savior of Jews during the Nazi occupation of France: …
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Sep
20
Interfaith Caravan Is Full of Female Rabbis
By Renee Ghert-Zand 09/19/2011 As the first woman to be ordained a Conservative rabbi, Amy Eilberg occupies a major place in the annals of Jewish women’s history. She has recently been squeezing her self into a very small space in the hopes of making another kind of history. Since September 11, she and seven other …
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Jul
06
Religion still matters, global survey finds
by Karen Peake July 6, 2011 A new Ipsos MORI poll has found that religion still matters to most people in the world. The global survey looked at the views of over 18,000 people across 24 countries, including the UK and US. Seven in 10 of those surveyed said they had a religion but there …
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Jul
06
Building Muslim-Jewish Ties In Vienna, And Beyond
by Steve Lipman Tuesday, July 5, 2011 A Jewish native of Vienna, 28-year-old Ilja Sichrovsky is at the vanguard of a movement to improve relations between Jews and Muslims. As founder and secretary of the Muslim Jewish Conference (mjconference.org), he recently brought several dozen young members of both communities together at the University of Vienna …
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Jul
05
Tolerance key to progress at home, peace in the world
By SAMAR FATANY | ARAB NEWS Conflict between different faiths today is caused by deviant viewpoints and misinterpretations of the divine scriptures To move Saudi Arabia and other Muslim nations forward we need to resolve the ideological crisis that has long allowed extremely radical views to permeate our societies. The perpetuation of outmoded customs and …
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Jun
13
Conflict is of interests, not of religion
by DNA Correspondent Jun 11, 2011 It is often assumed that inter-religious dialogue is a product of sectarian conflicts which are afflicting the world. But as a group of scholars described it at a meeting on Friday, such talks are as old as religion. The first such meeting took place between Jews and Zoroastrians in …
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May
28
Interfaith Dialogue
by FOX40 WICZ NEWS 5/22/2011 A meeting of faiths. Christians, Jews and Muslims came to the Islamic organization of the Southern Tier Sunday afternoon to share their beliefs and experiences with one another. People from all three faiths came together to enjoy a meal together. The event was designed to promote understanding between people of …
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May
28
Importance of interfaith dialogue emphasized
By ARAB NEWS May 24, 2011 JEDDAH: Deputy Education Minister Faisal bin Muammar emphasized the importance of interfaith dialogue in order to promote peaceful coexistence among the followers of different religions and cultures. “It is also essential to make joint efforts to stop the deterioration of moral values and fight poverty, terrorism and other crimes,” …
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May
13
Against extremism
by Philippine Daily Inquirer 05/09/2011 RALLIES protesting the killing of Osama bin Laden by American forces have broken out in Gaza and Pakistan. Since Gaza is dominated by Hamas, a conservative Islamist group classified by the US and the European Union as a terrorist group, the protest rallies there had been expected. But the demonstrations …
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Apr
11
Stephen Schwartz and the Center on Islamic Pluralism
by Sheila Musaji April 10 2011 Stephen Schwartz is the Director of the Center on Islamic Pluralism (CIP), and was a Senior Fellow of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. In 2003 it was reported that Daniel Pipes’ Middle East Forum was seeking support to form a progressive Islamic institute that would represent liberal Muslims …
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Apr
11
3 faiths have dialogue over Decalogue at event
By DAVID YONKE BLADE RELIGION EDITOR “When Moses came down from the mountain with the Ten Commandments in tow, little did he know that Americans would end up being their single greatest fan,” Jenna Weissman Joselit, keynote speaker at the 11th Annual Jewish-Christian-Muslim Dialogue, said. Her lecture, “Double-Edged: America’s Relationship to the Ten Commandments,” was …
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Mar
29
Forty New Orlinian Christian, Muslim and Jewish Clergy Engage Over Each Other’s Texts and the Challenges They Present
Tuesday, March 29, 2011 NEW ORLEANS, LA — (Marketwire) — 03/29/11 — More than 40 New Orleans Muslim, Jewish and Christian clergy from a spectrum of denominations and movements joined the convention of the world’s Reform rabbis to engage in a dialogue on potentially divisive texts, utilizing them as an avenue for exploring wider issues. …
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Mar
26
‘Don’t bruise the fruit’: Sharing faith without offending
By IRIE PRICE March 26, 2011 AVALANCHE-JOURNAL “First and foremost, it is a perspective of the word becoming flesh,” said Jim Beck, professor of Missions and Bible at Lubbock Christian University and missions coordinator at Monterey Church of Christ. “I think more about sharing my personal experience and my sense of spirituality,” said Rabbi Vicki …
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Mar
26
Right of Reply: Jewish-Muslim dialogue works
by MARC SCHNEIER 03/21/2011 “Even when we do not share a common faith, we share a common fate, and our single destiny must strengthen our bonds of concern, compassion and caring for each other.” In the March 17 edition, Isi Liebler, in his column “A Jewish-Muslim alliance?”alleged that the activities to promote mutual understanding and …
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Mar
21
Young Jewish, Muslim Leaders Join On Immigration Issue
Two Jewish organizations and three Muslim groups focus on building interfaith coalition for advocacy. Tuesday, March 8, 2011 by Doug Chandler Notwithstanding the absence of a major wave of Jewish immigration today, the country’s immigration policies remain central to the Jewish community, the president and CEO of the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society told a roomful …
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Mar
09
Anti-Semitism = Islamophobia
by Lesley Hazleton March 8, 2011 This past weekend, I spoke to a Hadassah meeting – the Women’s Zionist Organization of America. The subject, of my choosing, was “What’s a ‘nice Jewish girl’ doing writing so much about Islam?” The easy answer to the question I’d self-imposed was “Why not?” A perfectly reasonable answer, perhaps, …
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Mar
08
An Interfaith Objection to the Muslim ‘Radicalization’ Hearings
by Rabbi Mark A. Gruber and Sister Jeanne Clark March 8, 2011 As Long Island faith leaders from different religious traditions, we fear that Rep. Peter King’s (R-NY) congressional hearings about the “radicalization” of the Muslim community will demonize Muslim Americans, undermine interfaith dialogue and distract us from practical efforts to confront violent extremism. We …
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Mar
01
Initiative relaunched:UIC program fostering dialogue about Jewish-Muslim relations
By Rebecca Ginat February 28, 2011 Prolific educator, lawyer and Muslim scholar, Najeeba Syeed-Miller began her presentation by citing the theory of deprovincialisation. Deprovincialisation is when “we see the other, hear the other and understand where they are coming from,” said Syeed-Miller. “This is what we are here to accomplish today.” And indeed, after the …
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Feb
28
Call to extend Catholic-Jewish amity to Islam
The regular dialogue the two faiths have maintained since the Catholic Church renounced anti-Semitism at the Second Vatican Council, should be “a model for transformed relations with Islam,” Rabbi Richard Marker told an interfaith conference. Marker addressed the opening session on Sunday evening of a meeting reviewing four decades of Catholic-Jewish efforts to forge closer …
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Dec
24
Islam and other Religions
by Sachiko Murata and William C. Chittick The Universality and Uniqueness of Prophecy Prophecy is the means whereby God offers guidance to human beings through human intermediaries. Just as God’s mercy takes precedence over his wrath and thereby determines the nature of wrath, so also God’s guidance takes precedence over his misguidance. Guidance itself demands …
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Dec
21
The Calling (Documentary): Muslims, Christians and Jews
It takes a true calling to make faith a way of life. The Calling is a four-hour documentary series that follows seven Muslims, Catholics, Evangelical Christians, and Jews on a dramatic journey as they train to become professional clergy. Embarking on life paths that demand tremendous personal sacrifice and commitment, these seminarians must uphold timeless …
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Dec
21
Jews and Muslims: How do we ‘bring the temperature down’?
By Frankie Martin December 17 2010 This year has not been an easy one for Jewish-Muslim relations. The Israeli-Palestinian peace process is in a state of collapse, apocalyptic pronouncements about Iran’s nuclear program abound, and the plan by a Muslim group to build an Islamic Center near Ground Zero was staunchly opposed by venerable Jewish …
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Dec
13
Shed a Tear for Safed
by Tom Block November 15, 2010 We read in Sunday’s Washington Post (A20: “Allegations of Racism and questions about a town’s character”), about the continuing desecration of a once fertile Jewish-Muslim mystical fraternity. The article notes: “In the winding stone alleys of this Galilee hill town, a centuries-old center of Jewish mysticism, a campaign is …
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Dec
12
Small steps for peace still forged in Mid-East
By Hugh Sykes 11 December 2010 At a demonstration I went to last week against evictions of Palestinians from their homes in East Jerusalem there were more Jews chanting and holding up banners in support of the Palestinians than there were Arabs. The banners were in Hebrew and in English. That is a change. I …
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Dec
10
Future Religious and Ethical Leaders Ask The Hard Questions — Together
by Chris Stedman December 5, 2010 “‘Thou shalt not’ might reach the head, but it takes ‘Once upon a time’ to reach the heart.” So said Philip Pullman, author of The Golden Compass, in a 2007 interview with The Atlantic. He might be right, but I can’t help but wonder: What if we could reach …
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Dec
10
Hanukkah and Interfaith Dialogue: Increasing Our Shared Light
by Rabbi Sid Schwarz December 4, 2010 On the first night of Hanukkah this year, I found myself in an unusual place. I was supposed to be at a Jewish communal event hosted by Israel’s Ambassador to the United States, Michael Oren. But at the last minute I was asked by the Indonesian Ambassador, Dino …
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Dec
10
Muslims Save Jews in Untold WWll Story
By David Weinberg 08 December 2010 An untold story of the Nazi Holocaust is on display at a Jewish temple in St. Louis, Missouri. It’s a photography exhibit, featuring portraits of elderly Albanian Muslims – men and women who helped save nearly 2,000 Jews who fled to Albania during World War II. Untold story “Who …
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Dec
10
OIC seeks reconciliation between Muslims and West
by P.K. ABDUL GHAFOUR | ARAB NEWS JEDDAH: The Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) has emphasized the importance of cultural and interfaith dialogue to promote world peace and stability, and said it was seeking a historic reconciliation between the Muslim world and the West. “The OIC reflects the true and real image of Islam, based …
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Nov
29
Al-Azhar invites Jews to inter-faith talks
LONDON – In a speech to an event in London Tuesday, New York Rabbi Marc Schneier – a vice-president of the World Jewish Congress and a pioneer in fostering closer Jewish-Muslim relations in North America and Europe – praised leaders of the Al-Azhar Al-Sharif University in Cairo, the oldest center of Islamic scholarship in the …
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Nov
11
Making Hospital Chapel Welcoming to All Faiths
By SCOTT JAMES Published: October 21, 2010 Looking resplendent in red vestments, the Rev. John Jimenez conducted mass on Monday before about 20 congregants and reminded them the date was the Feast of St. Luke. “Luke is the patron saint of doctors,” he said, “so it has some special meaning here in the hospital.” Father …
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