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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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