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The Jewish Week: First Responders in
the Interfaith Community

European Jewish Congress: Address
by Rabbi Marc Schneier (The New York Synagogue, New York) at the Special Memorial Service on the occasion of
the 70 anniversary of Kristallnacht

Religious News Service: Jews, Muslims plan joint memorial tribute to
Mumbai victims

Haaretz: Historic win revives the black-Jewish civil rights alliance

JTA Op-Ed: The road from King to Obama

Religious News Service: Some hope that Obama can rebuild black-Jewish alliance

Op-ed in The Jerusalem Post: Reverend King and the Ninth Plague

Op-ed in The Jerusalem Post on
Black-Jewish relations in America

Russell Simmons and Jay-Z
launch The Foundation for Ethnic Understanding's International
anti-Semitism/anti-Racism
Public Service Announcement Campaign

View Public Service Announcement #1

View Public Service Announcement #2

Schneier and Simmons Record Podcast
f or the United States
Holocaust Memorial Museum

Rabbi Schneier in Paris to Present
Public Service Announcements

CNN: Saudi King Abdullah convenes a conference in Madrid to defuse interfaith tensions. CNN's Al Goodman reports.

Jerusalem Post (and AP): Saudi King opens Madrid inter-faith conference

Arab News (and Reuters): Dialogue is essential for peace

The Jerusalem Post: If Muhammad Doesn't Come to the Mountain...

The New York Times: Backstage with Six Rabbis, Six Imams, and No 'Kumbaya

Fall 2008 Newsletter

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day 2008
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FFEU Commemoration Events
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Rabbi Marc Schneier and Russell Simmons featured in Lifestyles

The Foundation's Public Service Announcement featured in
Time Magazine

The Foundation participates in a
National Weekend of Prayer and Reflection for Victims of Genocide
in Darfur, Sudan

Rabbi Marc Schneier offers prayer at Democratic National Convention

The Foundation Premieres New PSA Campaign to His Royal Highness King Abdullah

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.

Three Leaders in Los Angeles honored by The Foundation

Rabbi Schneier Represents the American Jewish Community at the SCLC 50th Annual Convention in New Orleans

Left to right: Russell Simmons, Vicangelo Bulluck, Daphna Ziman, Jay Faires, Rabbi Marc Schneier. Photo, Ed Krieger

Dr. Charles Steele, Jr., National President, Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and Rabbi Marc Schneier. Photo by Nathan Knight.

Jesse Itzler, Chris Lighty, Rabbi Marc Schneier, Denise Rich, and Russell Simmons at FFEU's New York Spring Benefit.

Rabbi Marc Schneier's Peace Mission

Rabbi Marc Schneier Makes Historic Appearance at National Dinner of Leading Muslim American Organization

(L-R) Rabbi Marc Schneier, Daphna
Ziman, and Rev Eric Lee (President and CEO of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference of Greater Los Angeles) pledge to work together, following a meeting to reconcile differences between Lee and Ziman that emerged in early April.

Rabbi Marc Schneier, President, The Foundation for Ethnic Understanding; Dalia Mahmoud, Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC)/NYC Executive Committee; Salam Al-Marayati, Executive Director of Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC).

Ethnic Members of Congress Receive Awards on Capitol Hill; Reflects Growing Ethnic Demographics in Congress

The Foundation Hosts First National Summit of Imams and Rabbis in the United States

Basya Laye, Congressman Edolphus Towns, Congresswoman Donna Christensen, Congressman Eni Faleomavaega, Congresswoman Carolyn Kilpatrick, Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Rabbi Marc Schneier, Alicia Simmons.

Photo from Left to Right: Russell Simmons, Rabbi Marc Schneier, Imam Omar Abu Namous and Ambassador Ronald S. Lauder