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 Thursday, May 21, 2009 in New York |
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Haaretz: Jewish group: Dialogue with Muslims more urgent than ties with Vatican The Jerusalem Post: We must face the real interfaith challenge The Jewish Daily Forward: JCPA Approves Effort to Build Dialogue With Muslim Groups JTA Op-Ed: Facing the real interfaith challenge Haaretz: Jewish World / Can U.S. Muslims and Jews work together to change the world? JTA:
Jewish-Muslim
initiative expanding to Haaretz: N.Y. rabbi aims to ease Jewish-Muslim tensions in Europe stoked by Gaza op Reuters: Rabbi wants to bring U.S. Muslim-Jewish teamwork to Europe
The Foundation Premieres
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Schneier in Paris to Present
Rabbi Marc Schneier offers
prayer at Democratic National Convention
 Rabbi Marc Schneier, president of The Foundation for Ethnic Understanding accompanied by (from left-to-right) Reverend Dr. Shaun Casey, Ethic Professor, Fairfax, VA, Dr. Polly Baca, Center for Spirituality at Work, Denver, CO and Imam Abdur-Rahim Ali, Northeast Denver Islamic Center, Denver, CO, lead convention delegates, politicians, and guests in prayer at the first-ever Democratic National Convention interfaith gathering, the official kick-off of the 2008 DNC Convention. Ethnic Members of Congress Receive
Awards on Capitol Hill; Reflects Growing Ethnic Demographics in Congress
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Left to right: Imam Muhammad Shamsi Ali, spiritual
leader of the Islamic Center of New York and Rabbi Marc Schneier, president
of The Foundation for Ethnic Understanding, greet each other after a prayer
service at the Center. They joined together to condemn the alleged plot
by four men who were arrested after planting what they thought were explosivies
near two New York City synagogues.
Photo credit: Christina Paljusaj Read related press... Read Newsweek/Washington Post On Faith Forum Oped |
CONGRATULATIONS
RUSSELL! On Wednesday, May 20, 2009, Russell Simmons was appointed Goodwill Ambassador for the Permanent Memorial to the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade. The Permanent Memorial will be an architecturally designed sculpture, embodying each affected region of the transatlantic slave trade-Africa, the Caribbean, Europe, and the Americas. This commemorative figure will be built on the grounds of the United Nations Headquarters. |
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 2009 New York Spring Benefit at the Home of Russell Simmons |
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Left to right: Russell Simmons, FFEU Chairman; FFEU Honorees David and Mona Sterling; FFEU Honoree LL COOL J; FFEU President Rabbi Marc Schneier. Photo credit: Ray Girard |
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Congratulations On Thursday, February 12th, The Foundation
for Ethnic Understanding (FFEU) Chairman Russell Simmons received the
2009 NAACP Vanguard Award at the 40th NAACP Image Awards broadcast live
from Los Angeles on FOX. Rabbi Marc Schneier, FFEU President said, "We are profoundly grateful for this historic recognition of our chairman's leadership. Russell continues to be a source of guidance and inspiration in his noble service to greater humankind." |
 FFEU Chairman, Russell Simmons |
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to the FFEU's work in Black Jewish relations has made us the national address
for this historic alliance. It was Russell's groundbreaking vision that
launched FFEU's successful initiatives in Muslim Jewish relations. The widespread
enthusiasm from the Weekend of Twinning of mosques and synagogues across
North America will now be brought this coming year across the Atlantic to
Europe.
Watch Part I of Russell Simmons at the 40th NAACP Image Awards Watch Part II of Russell Simmons at the 40th NAACP Image Awards |
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In honor of
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day |
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Black History Month at Bloomingdale's
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 FFEU leaders keynote Con Edison Diversity Seminar |
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On Monday, November 3, 2008 Con Edison presented a Strategic Issues Seminar entitled Breaking Barriers: How the Efforts to Diversify the Workplace Have Helped to Shape our Nation Today.
“Because the company is growing more diverse each year, bringing changes to our socio-ethnic make-up, it is vital that we all gain a broader understanding of the cultures and peoples that we live and work with” said seminar co-sponsor Frances Resheske, senior vice president, Public Affairs at Con Edison.
Over 1,000 people assembled to learn about the ways the Foundation is working to bring issues of race relations and ethnic understanding to the forefront of the national agenda...
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The Foundation Honors Leaders
in Black Jewish Relations and
Muslim Jewish Relations at New York Fall Benefit |
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| Honoree, Mark Ein; FFEU President, Rabbi Marc Schneier; FFEU Chairman, Russell Simmons; Honoree, Rodney Propp; Honoree, Janus Holder. | Honoree, Ali Naqvi, receives the Joseph Papp Racial Harmony Award from FFEU President, Rabbi Marc Schneier. | |||||
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Hip Hop Mogul and Rabbi Honor Influential Young
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Three Leaders in Los Angeles honored by The Foundation |
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| Rabbi Schneier Represents the American Jewish Community at the SCLC 50th Annual Convention in New Orleans | Rabbi Marc Schneier Represents American Jewish Community at Memphis 40th Anniversary Commemoration of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Assassination | |||||
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| Rabbi Marc Schneier Makes Historic Appearance at National Dinner of Leading Muslim American Organization | The Foundation Hosts First National Summit of Imams and Rabbis in the United States | |||||
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Rabbi
Marc Schneier joins Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton to lay a wreath at
the former Lorraine Hotel, now the National Civil Rights Museum, the site
where Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated 40 years ago. (Rep.
Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) in background).
