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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
News.at By Christoph Lehermayr Marc Schneier: “Meine Familie ist damals aus Österreich in die USA geflohen” Fast auf den Tag genau vor 75 Jahren: Bilder von gedemütigten Juden, brennenden Gebetshäusern, ersten Deportationen. In NEWS erzählt Marc Schneier, einer der einflussreichsten Rabbiner, wie die “Reichskristallnacht“ seine Familie und ihn prägte… Das Klirren des Glases. Wie es Continue Reading »
Huffington Post By Rabbi Marc Schneier and Russell Simmons October 23, 2013 There is a widely accepted belief that Muslims and Jews are enemies and will always remain so. However, nothing could be further from the truth. For the past six years The Foundation for Ethnic Understanding has not only challenged this narrative, but has facilitated a global Continue Reading »
The Times of Israel By Rabbi Marc Schneier As we approach Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, it is worthwhile to shed some light on a colorful, but relatively low profile ritual in the Yom Kippur liturgy known as the Azalzel, or the ritual of the two goats. This is a modern explication of a ceremony Continue Reading »
Huffington Post By Rabbi Marc Schneier This Wednesday, August 28 when we commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington and the majestic “I Have a Dream” speech, we should reflect on the singular role the Jewish community played throughout the Civil Rights struggle and, in particular, remember with pride Jewish participation in the March Continue Reading »
Huffington Post By Rabbi Marc Schneier July 16, 2013 Ambassador Ebrahim Rasool welcomes Rabbi Marc Schneier at the Embassy of South Africa, Washington D.C., June 2013 As Nelson Mandela endures a grave illness with the same courage and dignity he evinced throughout his life, including the 27 long years he was held prisoner, Minister of Continue Reading »
Huffington Post By Rabbi Marc Schneier FFEU’s First Delegation of Muslim and Jewish Leaders from Europe visits the White House in 2009, Photo: Walter Ruby. Secretary of State John Kerry performed an important public service on May 20 by personally announcing the release of the U.S. State Department’s 2012 Report on Religious Freedom, which contains the Continue Reading »
Huffington Post By Rabbi Marc Schneier Shavuot (the two-day Festival of Weeks) by the Jewish people will commence Tuesday evening. The holiday commemorates revelation at Sinai, almost 3,300 years ago, when the Jews were chosen by God to receive the Ten Commandments. These 10 utterances and declarations became the moral and ethical foundation for Western Continue Reading »
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