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Black Star News By Judy Kuriansky February 10, 2020 Pervasive violence. Devastating climate change. Religious and racial intolerance. Deadly epidemics. These themes threatening our world today were taken on by a panel of faith leaders, experts and high-level officials at a commemoration of an event during World Interfaith Harmony Week celebrated annually in early February at the United Nations. Entitled “The State of the World Today from a Religious and Spiritual Perspective,” and held at a UN headquarters...

London School of Economics Middle East Center By Adam Hoffman and Dr Moran Zaga February 10, 2020 Dr Muhammad al-Issa’s unprecedented visit to the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp on 23 January 2020, the 75th anniversary of its liberation, marked a peak in a process of interfaith momentum that has been recently evident in the Muslim world, and more specifically in the Gulf. As Secretary-General of the Muslim World League, Al-Issa is the most senior Islamic leader to visit Auschwitz. In one of the statements...

World Israel News February 9, 2020 The Gulf States are leading the way toward a rapprochement with the Jewish State, i24NEWS reports. Click here to watch.

Qantara.de By Christoph Strack January 21, 2020 Bislang besuchten nur wenige Muslime die KZ-Gedenkstätte Auschwitz-Birkenau. Nun reisen hochrangige Vertreter von Muslimen und Juden gemeinsam an den Ort des Grauens. Es ist die Geschichte einer persönlichen Annäherung. “Da steht ein Kerl namens Mustafa, groß wie ein Schrank, vor einem riesengroßen Berg an Kinderschuhen. Und jeder dieser Kinderschuhe gehörte mal zu Kinderfüßen. Und plötzlich merke ich: Bei Mustafa tut sich was.” Raed Saleh...

Deutsche Welle (Spanish) By Christopher Starck January 20, 2020 Hasta la fecha, solo unos pocos musulmanes han visitado el antiguo campo de concentración de Auschwitz-Birkenau. Ahora, representantes musulmanes y judíos de alto rango realizarán una visita conjunta. En 2013, el líder del grupo parlamentario socialdemócrata de Berlín, Raed Saleh, visitó el sitio conmemorativo de Auschwitz-Birkenau con un grupo de alumnos. El hecho de que Saleh, quien nació en Cisjordania y llegó a Alemania cuando tenía...

Deutsche Welle (Malaysian) By Christopher Starck January 20, 2020 Tokoh Islam bergandeng tangan dengan pemimpin Yahudi memperingati 75 tahun pembebasan kamp konsentrasi Auschwitz. Salah seorangnya adalah bekas menteri kehakiman Arab Saudi dan Sekjen Liga Muslim Dunia, Syeikh al-Eissa. Seorang muslim berdoa bersama penganut Yahudi di Kamp Konsentrasi Auschwitz-Birkenau. Pada 2013 seorang politisi partai sosial demokrat Jerman bernama Raed Saleh mengunjungi kamp Auschwitz-Birkenau dengan sekelompok...

Albalad By Faisal Assegaf January 20, 2020 Rabbi Schneier mengungkapkan kegirangannya bisa merayakan Shabbat di Saudi untuk pertama kali. Menteri Luar Negeri Arab Saudi Pangeran Faisal bin Farhan bertemu Rabbi Marc Schneier dari New York, Amerika Serikat. Pertemuan ini berlangsung di kantornya di Ibu Kota Riyadh, Arab Saudi, 16 Januari 2020. (Twitter) Menteri Luar Negeri Arab Saudi Pangeran Faisal bin Farhan Kamis pekan lalu menerima kunjungan Rabbi Marc Schneier asal New York, Amerika Serikat, di...

Tempo.co By Christopher Starck January 20, 2020 Tokoh Islam bergandeng tangan dengan pemimpin Yahudi memperingati 75 tahun pembebasan kamp konsentrasi Auschwitz. Salah seorangnya adalah bekas menteri kehakiman Arab Saudi dan Sekjen Liga Muslim Dunia, Syeikh al-Eissa. Pada 2013 seorang politisi partai sosial demokrat Jerman bernama Raed Saleh mengunjungi kamp Auschwitz-Birkenau dengan sekelompok pelajar. Saleh, anggota parlemen kota Berlin kala itu, dilahirkan di Palestina dan baru bermigrasi ke Jerman...

Yeshiva World News January 19, 2020 Rabbi Marc Schneier of the Hampton Synagogue met with the Saudi Arabia Foreign Minister last week, and spent Shabbos in Riyadh. Schneier is the founder of the Foundation for Ethnic Understanding, originally to rebuild the historic Black-Jewish alliance in the United States and for the past 15 years, to build Muslim-Jewish relations globally, and has met with many Gulf State leaders. In an interview with Ynet, Schneier said he predicts that Baharain will be the...

Deutsche Welle By Christoph Strack January 19, 2020 Few Muslims have visited the notorious site of some of history’s worst atrocities. But high-ranking leaders of Muslim and Jewish communities are coming together to mark 75 years since the extermination camp’s liberation. In 2013, the leader of Berlin’s Social Democratic parliamentary group, Raed Saleh, visited the Auschwitz Birkenau memorial site with a group of pupils. The fact that Saleh, who was born in the West Bank and came...