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Muslims and Jews Must Speak out When Christians are Attacked

Posted on April 5, 2015

Huffington Post By Rabbi Marc Schneier and Imam Shamsi Ali As Christians all over the world mark one of the holiest days of their religious calendar, the Foundation for Ethnic Understanding (FFEU) and the Nusantara Foundation applaud efforts toward communication, reconciliation and cooperation among all faiths. We are deeply concerned about the wholesale violation of Continue Reading »

Muslims DO Speak Out, We’re Just Not Listening

Posted on April 3, 2015

 The Times of Israel By Rabbi Marc Schneier 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 on Continue Reading »

A New Paradigm for Muslim-Jewish Dialogue

Posted on January 9, 2015

Huffington Post By Rabbi Marc Schneier Originally published in The New York Jewish Week At least we are finally beginning to understand what we are up against. As the war in Gaza has taken its toll and the U.S. conducts a sustained bombing campaign against ISIS in northern Iraq to save the Kurds, the battle Continue Reading »

Netanyahu Must Take a Page From Sadat

Posted on January 9, 2015

Huffington Post By Rabbi Marc Schneier This article originally appeared in the Jewish Telegraph Agency (JTA) which is a wire service for Jewish media. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is correct to describe a new proposal by the Arab League to revive Israeli-Palestinian peace talks as “a very big step forward.” Yet there will Continue Reading »

A Failure To See Why Jerusalem Matters to the Other: Muslims and Jews Need To Understand Each Other’s Faith

Posted on December 3, 2014

Huffington Post By Rabbi Marc Schneier Originally published in The Jewish Daily Forward 12/01/2014 Muslims and Jews around the world are today facing a fearsome specter, that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is increasingly turning into a war between our two religions. To prevent a global conflagration that would be a disaster for both faiths and the Continue Reading »

L.A.’s Jews and Muslims partner in ‘twinning’ events

Posted on November 19, 2014

Jewish Journal By Ryan Torok When Jews and Muslims came together for a “twinning” event on Nov. 16, the Pico Union Project was filled with jamming, rapping, rhetoric, dancing and more. “It’s the only way we will ever find peace — through the arts and dialogue. So this is a really good start,” Genie Benson, Continue Reading »

Muslim Jewish Forum takes part in Mosque-Synagogue Twinning Project

Posted on November 18, 2014

Asian Image Members of a Muslim Jewish Forum took part in a worldwide twinning event in which local Mosques were twinned with local Synagogues. The Muslim Jewish Forum Manchester took part in the project which was organized internationally by the Foundation for Ethnic Understanding. In Manchester this twinning took place between Manchester Reform Synagogue on Continue Reading »

Di New York, Muslim dan Yahudi Saling Membela

Posted on November 17, 2014

Poskota News JAKARTA – Umat Muslim dan Yahudi di New York AS sejak lama saling mencurigai dan berprasangka, tetapi selama tujuh tahun terakhir, hubungan antar umat Muslim dan Yahudi mengalami perubahan besar, menjadi lebih baik, bahkan saling membela satu sama lain. Imam Shamsi Ali, seorang imam asal Tana Toa Sulawesi yang bermukim di New York, Continue Reading »

Imam Shamsi Ali and Rabbi Schneier: Reuniting Muslims and Jews

Posted on November 17, 2014

The Jakarta Post By Hans David Tampubolon The death of a beloved pope is the bridge that connects two men from two worlds tormented with rage, anger, hatred, bloodshed and prejudice. The first man is Imam Shamsi Ali, a Muslim scholar born in Tana Toa, South Sulawesi, in 1967. Growing up, he resented Jews as Continue Reading »

Muslim dan Yahudi di New York AS “Saling Membela”

Posted on November 17, 2014

BBC Umat Muslim dan Yahudi di New York AS sejak lama saling mencurigai dan berprasangka, tetapi selama tujuh tahun terakhir, hubungan antar umat Muslim dan Yahudi mengalami perubahan besar, menjadi lebih baik, bahkan saling membela satu sama lain. Imam Shamsi Ali, seorang imam asal Tana Toa Sulawesi yang bermukim di New York, dan pemuka agama Continue Reading »

Diskusi “Mencari Titik Temu Yahudi-Islam”

Posted on November 13, 2014

Satu Harapan By Tunggul Tauladan YOGYAKARTA, SATUHARAPAN.COM – Stigma buruk tentang agama orang lain seringkali menghinggapi pemikiran seseorang. Perseteruan Yahudi dengan Islam menjadi contoh nyata kasus yang hingga hari ini masih jamak diperbincangkan. Islam menganggap Yahudi sebagai pihak yang menjadi musuh. Hal yang sama berlaku pula bagi Yahudi yang menganggap Islam pantas untuk dibinasakan dengan Continue Reading »

‘Twinning’ event centers on desire for peace

Posted on November 12, 2014

New Jersey Jewish News By Robert Wiener Local Muslims say violence based on religious doctrine is ‘un-Islamic’ Eight thousand miles away from a part of the world where violent confrontations between Muslims and Jews occur on a near-daily basis, a roomful of people from both religions gathered at a mosque to discuss what they perceive Continue Reading »