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Jøder og muslimer føler sig trådt påBerlingske

Posted on February 20, 2014

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 på Continue Reading »

A Muslim-Jewish Silver Lining in a European Dark Cloud

Posted on January 27, 2014

Huffington Post By Rabbi Marc Schneier Last week, I had the privilege of leading a delegation of European imams and rabbis to meet with Council of Europe (COE) Secretary-General Thorbjorn Jagland at COE headquarters in Strasbourg, and to present to him a petition signed by more than 500 European Muslim and Jewish leaders calling for Continue Reading »

A Muslim-Jewish Silver Lining To A Darkening European Cloud

Posted on January 26, 2014

The Times of Israel By Rabbi Marc Schneier Last week, I had the privilege of leading a delegation of European imams and rabbis to meet with Council of Europe (COE) Secretary-General Thorbjorn Jagland at COE headquarters in Strasbourg, and to present to him a petition signed by more than 500 European Muslim and Jewish leaders Continue Reading »

Jews, Muslims unite to combat circumcision ban

Posted on January 24, 2014

Ynet Council of Europe Secretary-General Thorbjorn Jagland tells delegation of Muslim, Jewish leaders that religious discrimination of minorities is ‘a very dangerous avenue to pursue’ VIDEO – Just days before the Council of Europe is scheduled to hold hearings on a controversial resolution supporting banning male circumcision across the continent, a 10-person delegation of Muslim Continue Reading »

Knesset Producing Film to Fight Anti-Circumcision Laws

Posted on January 20, 2014

The Jerusalem Post By Lahav Karov and Sam Sokol PACE secretary-general calls motion limiting minority rights dangerous; MK Shai plans to screen pro-circumcision short in PACE committee meeting. The Knesset is producing a short pro-circumcision documentary, to be filmed this week and shown in a committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe Continue Reading »

Circoncision: Des associations demandent au Conseil de l’Europe de revoir sa resolution

Posted on January 20, 2014

20 Minutes LEGISLATION L’assemblée parlementaire de l’organisation paneuropéenne (APCE) a voté le 1er octobre une résolution classant la «circoncision des jeunes garçons pour des motifs religieux» parmi les «violations de l’intégrité physique des enfants» à combattre… Des responsables juifs et musulmans ont plaidé ce lundi auprès du secrétaire général du Conseil de l’Europe, Thorbjorn Jagland, Continue Reading »

Mandela’s Road To Reconciliation; The Next Stop On The Journey

Posted on January 2, 2014

The Times of Israel By Rabbi Marc Schneier In 2003, I traveled to South Africa with my dear friend, Martin Luther King III, at the invitation of the South African Jewish Board of Deputies, where we spoke at their centenary celebration on the state of black-Jewish relations in the United States. During the civil rights Continue Reading »

‘The Real Challenge Is To Love The Stranger’

Posted on December 24, 2013

The Jewish Week By Sandee Brawarsky A local rabbi and imam try to bridge a wide gulf. Rabbi Marc Schneier is the founder and president of the Foundation for Ethnic Understanding, an organization that works internationally to promote understanding and cooperation between Jews and other ethnic communities. He recently published with Imam Shamsi Ali “Sons Continue Reading »

Holocaust conference in Tunisia commemorates forced labor, deportations

Posted on December 15, 2013

Jewish Telegraphic Agency A conference commemorating the effects of the Holocaust on Tunisian Jews was held in Tunis. Historians, scholars and authors spoke at Saturday’s conference, which remembered the 5,000 Jews subjected to forced labor in Tunisia during a six-month Nazi occupation of the country in 1942-43. Some were deported to Nazi death camps on Continue Reading »

Mandela’s Road to Reconciliation: The Next Stop on the Journey

Posted on December 12, 2013

Huffington Post By Rabbi Marc Schneier December 12, 2013 In 2003, I traveled to South Africa with my dear friend, Martin Luther King III, at the invitation of the South African Jewish Board of Deputies, where we spoke at their centenary celebration on the state of black-Jewish relations in the United States. During the civil Continue Reading »

What Muslims and Jews Have in Common

Posted on December 6, 2013

Huffington Post By Rabbi Marc Schneier and Imam Shamsi Ali December 6, 2013 When we tell people that we have written a book together entitled Sons of Abraham: A Candid Conversation About the Issues that Divide and Unite Muslims and Jews, many respond with comments like: “There must be a million things that divide Jews and Continue Reading »

New York-style Jewish-Muslim Cooperation Comes to Old Vienna

Posted on November 21, 2013

Reuters By Georgina Prodhan New York Rabbi Marc Schneier won a small but significant victory on a recent visit to Vienna – a promise from the head of Austria’s Islamic community to promote Holocaust education among the country’s half a million Muslims. Invited to an interfaith lunch along with his years-long partner in Jewish-Muslim outreach, Continue Reading »