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SAMIA HATHROUBI: “ILS ÉTAIENT HUIT, ON EST DES MILLIONS”

Posted on November 16, 2015

ChEEK Magazine By Myriam Levain Deux jours après les attentats de Paris, la militante de l’interreligieux Samia Hathroubi appelle à la mobilisation de tous les Français, quelle que soit leur communauté. Interview. Samia Hathroubi, 30 ans, professeure d’histoire de formation, a fait du dialogue entre juifs et musulmans l’un de ses principaux combats. Tous les Continue Reading »

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How Residents are Coming to Terms with the Devastation of loss in Paris

Posted on November 15, 2015

PBS News Hour NewsHour special correspondent Malcolm Brabant speaks to a TV producer, multi-faith campaigner and dean of the American Cathedral Paris about how the city’s residents are coming to terms with the tragic events of Friday. Read the Full Transcript WILLIAM BRANGHAM: Newshour special correspondent Malcolm Brabant is also in Paris and files this Continue Reading »

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Nous sommes unis

Posted on November 15, 2015

Liberation Des responsables associatifs, des leaders politiques, des intellectuels, de toutes confessions appellent à ne pas tomber dans le premier piège tendu par le terrorisme: la division. Touchée en plein cœur, la France pleure. Elle pleure ses citoyens assassinés, innocents, victimes d’une violence inouïe et innommable. Parce que la barbarie a encore frappé, la France Continue Reading »

After Paris Attacks, Some Fear Backlash Against Muslim Communities

Posted on November 14, 2015

NPR Heard on Weekend Edition Saturday NPR’s Scott Simon speaks with Samia Hathroubi, European director of the Foundation for Ethnic Understanding, about what conversations in Muslim Parisian communities may sound like in the coming days. SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Now let’s turn the conversation today into the different communities or towards different communities in Paris, especially in Continue Reading »

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Entertainment Philanthropy Report 2015

Posted on November 9, 2015

Variety includes the Foundation for Ethnic Understanding and its leadership in its Entertainment Philanthropy Report 2015

Amidst Violence at Home, Israel’s Chief Rabbi Finds Kindred Spirits Among Imams in New York

Posted on October 20, 2015

Huffington Post By Rabbi Marc Schneier October 20, 2015 On October 15, even as an ominous wave of violence escalated between Palestinians and Israelis in Jerusalem, I had the honor to host a luncheon at a New York City kosher restaurant at which the Chief Rabbi of Israel, David Lau, met and conversed warmly with a Continue Reading »

Yom Kippur, Eid al-Adha: Common Faith, Common Fate

Posted on September 21, 2015

Huffington Post By Rabbi Marc Schneier As a rabbi and an imam who have been working together for nearly a decade to nurture ties of communication and cooperation between Muslims and Jews worldwide, we find it moving that two of the most important holidays in our respective faiths, Yom Kippur and Eid al-Adha, will overlap this Continue Reading »

Ramadan and the True Spirit of Islam

Posted on June 30, 2015

Huffington Post By Rabbi Marc Schneier Whenever I have the opportunity to attend a Ramadan iftar—the festive meal held every evening at sunset to break the daily fast that Muslims observe for the entire Holy Month of month—I find myself awed by the self-sacrifice and inner discipline of untold millions of individual Muslims who go Continue Reading »

On Public Transport: Support Free Speech, Not Hate Speech

Posted on May 1, 2015

HuffPost By Rabbi Marc Schneier I am a strong supporter of the right to free speech guaranteed in the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, a principle which is at the very heart of the liberties we enjoy in America. Nevertheless, I applaud the April 28 decision by the Board of the New York City Continue Reading »

On Public Transport: Support Free Speech, Not Hate Speech

Posted on May 1, 2015

Huffington Post By Rabbi Marc Schneier I am a strong supporter of the right to free speech guaranteed in the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, a principle which is at the very heart of the liberties we enjoy in America. Nevertheless, I applaud the April 28 decision by the Board of the New York Continue Reading »

Muslims DO Speak Out, We’re Just Not Listening

Posted on April 6, 2015

Huffington Post By Rabbi Marc Schneier April 6, 2015 On a February evening in Oslo, Norway more than 1,000 Muslims formed a ‘Ring of Peace’ around the Oslo Synagogue, thereby offering symbolic protection to the Norwegian Jewish community and making clear their utter rejection of the terrorist attack the previous weekend by an Islamist extremist Continue Reading »

EU Rights Conference to Give Equal Billing to Anti-Semitism, Anti-Muslim Hatred

Posted on April 5, 2015

The Jerusalem Post By Sam Sokol Jewish organizations say that anti-Semitism is distinct from other types of discrimination, should not be conflated with other issues. Jewish organizations worldwide expressed shock and dismay over the weekend following the announcement that the European Commission is planning on holding a conference that implies an equivalence between anti-Semitism and Continue Reading »