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Abbas Expected to Send Message of Condolence for Holocaust Victims

Posted on April 21, 2014

Haaretz By Barak Ravid Palestinian leader to publish statement on Holocaust Memorial Day, says former World Jewish Congress vice president. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is expected to publish a special Holocaust Memorial Day message to the Jewish people next week, Haaretz has learned. If the message is indeed published it will be the first of its Continue Reading »

Abbas Calls Holocaust “Most Heinous Crime” Against Humanity

Posted on April 17, 2014

Reuters By Jeffery Heller JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas called the Nazi Holocaust “the most heinous crime” against humanity in modern times, in an apparent bid to build bridges with Israel days after troubled peace talks collapsed. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected the overture on Sunday, saying Abbas’s Palestinian power-sharing deal with Hamas, Continue Reading »

Rabbi, Imam Deliver Message of Understanding

Posted on April 17, 2014

The Jewish Exponent An Orthodox rabbi and Muslim cleric spoke about their joint mission to fight oppression affecting their religious groups at a South Jersey synagogue. They may seem like an odd couple, but Rabbi Marc Schneier and Imam Shamsi Ali believe there is nothing more natural than two people who have come to understand Continue Reading »

National leaders in Jewish-Muslim dialogue bring their message to SNJ

Posted on April 16, 2014

The Jewish Voice By David Portnoe When Imam Shamsi Ali, a Muslim cleric from Indonesia, came to the United States in 1995, he had a host of biases and misconceptions about those he described as “the other,” non-Muslims. Those views began to change when he moved to Astoria in Queens, and his family befriended an Continue Reading »

Meeting of Different Minds

Posted on March 28, 2014

New Jersey Jewish Standard By Larry Yudelson A rabbi and an imam walk into the Frisch School together… Jewish-Muslim dialogue went to a yeshiva high school, as Rabbi Marc Schneier and Imam Shamsi Ali appeared at an assembly at the Frisch School in Paramus last Wednesday. It was the first time Frisch hosted a Muslim Continue Reading »

Muslim and Jewish leaders visit Denmark to call for meat ban to be reversed

Posted on March 28, 2014

Asian Image A delegation of Muslim and Jewish leaders have called for a ban on Halal and Kosher meat to be reversed in Denmark. The group visited the country recently and met with the minister of Food, Agriculture and Fisheries, Dan Jorgensen at his office in Copenhagen. The group, organized by Samia Hathroubi, co-ordinator of Continue Reading »

Meetings solidify Jewish-Muslim coalition

Posted on March 26, 2014

New Jersey Jewish News By Johanna Ginsberg When a Rockaway mosque encountered what it felt was unfair action by the local zoning board to undermine many of its activities, the New Jersey Muslim-Jewish Solidarity Committee sprang into action. The Islamic Center of Morris County was going to be prohibited from teaching Arabic — because it Continue Reading »

Minister meets with European Muslim and Jewish leaders over slaughter ban

Posted on March 25, 2014

CPH Post Jørgensen was informed that the law was greatly damaging the image of Denmark The minister of food and agriculture, Dan Jørgensen (S), met with a delegation of European Muslim and Jewish leaders late last week concerning Denmark’s new law banning the slaughter of animals that have not been stunned. Rabbi Marc Schneier, the Continue Reading »

Jewish Muslim Leaders: Danish Minister ‘Put[s] Animal Rights Before Religious Rights

Posted on March 22, 2014

The Jerusalem Post By Sam Sokol Agriculture Minister in Denmark Dan Jorgensen banned ritual slaughter of animals without pre-stunning. A joint delegation of European Muslim and Jewish religious leaders accused Danish Agriculture Minister Dan Jørgensen of putting animal rights before religious freedom on Thursday. Jørgensen had enacted a ban on Muslim and Jewish rituals performed Continue Reading »

A Rabbi and Imam Visit Frisch: First Time an Imam Visits Yeshiva

Posted on March 20, 2014

Jewish Link of New Jersey By Elyse Hansford Paramus—Two unlikely partners fighting misconceptions between Jews and Muslims arrived at the Frisch School on Wednesday morning to talk about how it is possible to build bridges across a chasm. Rabbi Marc Schneier, founder of the Foundation for Ethnic Understanding, an 18th generation rabbi from a distinguished Continue Reading »

Jøder og muslimer føler sig trådt på

Posted on March 20, 2014

Berlingske By Theis Engmann Fødevareminister Dan Jørgensen (S) forbød en slagtemetode, som ikke har været anvendt i årevis. Alligevel mødte en delegation af imamer og rabbinere i går op hos ministeren for at gøre opmærksom på deres utilfredshed. En international delegation bestående af jøder og muslimer satte i går fødevareminister Dan Jørgensen (S) i stævne Continue Reading »

Jews, Muslims criticize Denmark slaughter ban

Posted on March 5, 2014

Washington Jewish Week By Suzanne Pollak A 10-member delegation of Jews and Muslims told the Danish ambassador to the United States that his country’s ban on ritual slaughter has sullied Denmark’s reputation. Rabbi Marc Schneier, president of the Foundation for Ethnic Understanding, led the Feb. 27 delegation in protest of the ban, which went into Continue Reading »