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NY1 Members of the city’s Jewish and Muslim communities came together over the weekend in a show of solidarity against extremism and bigotry. They gathered Sunday at the Brotherhood Synagogue in Gramercy. The annual event is sponsored by the nonprofit “Foundation for Ethnic Understanding”. “Brotherhood is still the hope of the world and it is the hope of brotherly cooperation that has brought us here together,” said Rabbi Daniel Alder of Brotherhood Synagogue. “Jews...

Huffington Post By Rabbi Marc Schneier Ever since the ISIS-inspired terrorist attacks in Paris, replete with horrendous media images of remorseless killers remorselessly gunning down scores of concert goers while intoning ‘Allahu Akhbar’ (God is great), we have heard a growing drumbeat in the media by influential opinion makers that America should lead its Western allies in a War of Civilizations against Islam and Muslims. Ironically, but not coincidentally, that is the same message that ISIS is...

Saphir News By Hanan Ben Rhouma Des imams, des cadres musulmans et des militants associatifs se sont retrouvés boulevard Voltaire, à Paris, non loin du Bataclan, lundi 16 novembre, pour déposer des fleurs en hommage aux victimes des attentats terroristes trois jours plus tôt. Une trentaine de personnes, dont une grande partie sont des imams de mosquées situées dans la région parisienne, ont fait le déplacement. Les manifestations étant interdites par les autorités, « on ne pouvait pas inviter les...

CNN By Ben Wedeman and Pete Wilkinson (Jason: the image above should link to the video in the article) Paris (CNN)Muslim leaders gathered at a makeshift memorial in Paris on Monday to pay their respects to those killed in terror attacks and warn members of their community against joining ISIS. Several of the attackers are believed to have been French nationals who traveled to Syria to join ISIS. According to the French interior ministry, France is the largest source of European jihadis in Iraq and...

ChEEK Magazine By Myriam Levain Deux jours après les attentats de Paris, la militante de l’interreligieux Samia Hathroubi appelle à la mobilisation de tous les Français, quelle que soit leur communauté. Interview. Samia Hathroubi, 30 ans, professeure d’histoire de formation, a fait du dialogue entre juifs et musulmans l’un de ses principaux combats. Tous les jours, cette spécialiste de l’interreligieux intervient dans des débats et conférences à travers l’Europe sur les questions d’identité et de...

PBS News Hour NewsHour special correspondent Malcolm Brabant speaks to a TV producer, multi-faith campaigner and dean of the American Cathedral Paris about how the city’s residents are coming to terms with the tragic events of Friday. Read the Full Transcript WILLIAM BRANGHAM: Newshour special correspondent Malcolm Brabant is also in Paris and files this report about a city trying to come to terms with tragedy. MALCOLM BRABANT: Forty eight hours on, Anne Sophie de Chaisemartin is trying, but not...

Liberation Des responsables associatifs, des leaders politiques, des intellectuels, de toutes confessions appellent à ne pas tomber dans le premier piège tendu par le terrorisme: la division. Touchée en plein cœur, la France pleure. Elle pleure ses citoyens assassinés, innocents, victimes d’une violence inouïe et innommable. Parce que la barbarie a encore frappé, la France doit encore se lever. Face à un drame inédit d’une telle ampleur, nous devons plus que jamais nous concentrer sur l’unité ! Oui...

NPR Heard on Weekend Edition Saturday NPR’s Scott Simon speaks with Samia Hathroubi, European director of the Foundation for Ethnic Understanding, about what conversations in Muslim Parisian communities may sound like in the coming days. SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Now let’s turn the conversation today into the different communities or towards different communities in Paris, especially in the wake of an attack by violent Islamists on the city. Samia Hathroubi is on the line. She’s European...

Variety includes the Foundation for Ethnic Understanding and its leadership in its Entertainment Philanthropy Report 2015

Huffington Post By Rabbi Marc Schneier October 20, 2015 On October 15, even as an ominous wave of violence escalated between Palestinians and Israelis in Jerusalem, I had the honor to host a luncheon at a New York City kosher restaurant at which the Chief Rabbi of Israel, David Lau, met and conversed warmly with a distinguished delegation of imams and Muslim leaders from New York and New Jersey. When Rabbi Lau requested the meeting several months earlier in order to learn about the work that my organization,...