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(Photo by Abdel Ghani Bashir/AFP via Getty Images) Muslim worshippers around the Kaaba, Islam’s holiest shrine, at the Grand Mosque in Saudi Arabia’s holy city of Mecca on June 4, 2024 as pilgrims arrive ahead of the annual hajj pilgrimage. Diplomatic normalization between Saudi Arabia and Israel is often scrutinized through a geopolitical lens, overshadowing its profound interreligious implications for Muslims and Jews worldwide. Many analysts view Saudi-Israeli normalization through the prisms...

Rabbi Marc Schneier, President of the Foundation for Ethnic Understanding, wrote in Arab News that any Saudi involvement in Gaza’s reconstruction and normalization of relations with Israel will only come with a promise of progress toward a two-state solution. In his article, the rabbi urged Netanyahu: “This historic opportunity must be embraced.” By Itamar Eichner January 31, 2024 Against the backdrop of the many questions about the “day after” in the Gaza Strip, Rabbi...

By Rabbi Marc Schneier January 14, 2024 The challenge remains as to whether Black activists today will emulate Dr. King in unequivocally denouncing the rise of antisemitism in America and calling it out within their community.   PEOPLE GATHER at the crypt of Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King in Atlanta, on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, 2022. ‘I can state unequivocally that Dr. King would never have used the word ‘context’ in combating antisemitism,’ maintains the writer. (photo credit:...

By Bart Jones Long Island / Suffolk – ONLY IN NEWSDAY December 17, 2023   Rashid Sulehri, left, owner of the only kosher bakery on the East End, said his goal is to get the Jewish and Muslim communities together under one roof and to share what they have in common. (Credit: Randee Daddona)   War is raging in the Middle East, but in Westhampton Beach an example of peaceful coexistence between Muslims and Jews is thriving. About five years ago, Rashid Sulehri, a Muslim immigrant from...

By Bloomberg News November 30, 2023 Hamas’s assault and the Israeli military response in Gaza is fueling antisemitism and Islamophobia faster than governments can react. Defaced posters of people kidnapped by Hamas, distributed on New York University campus, in New York, on Oct. 25. Photographer: Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis/Getty Image   Three college students of Palestinian descent out walking over the Thanksgiving break were shot in Vermont. A synagogue in Berlin was hit with Molotov cocktails....

Desert News By Hanna Seariac November 29, 2023 People gather in Pliny Park in Brattleboro, Vermont, for a vigil, Monday, Nov. 27, 2023, for the three Palestinian-American students who were shot while walking near the University of Vermont campus on Saturday, Nov. 25.  The three students were being treated at the University of Vermont Medical Center, and one faces a long recovery because of a spinal injury, a family member said. | Kristopher Radder, Associated Press More   On Saturday, three...

CBS New York By Jennifer Bisram November 2, 2023 Imam Shamsi Ali and Rabbi Marc Schneier met with Muslim students at Lehman College as part of their ongoing efforts to address antisemitism and Islamophobia and promote tolerance and understanding amid the Israel-Hamas war.   NEW YORK — As the Israel-Hamas war continues, faith leaders from both the Muslim and Jewish faiths came together Thursday to talk with college students in the Bronx, hoping to promote peace. They met with Muslim...

News 12 By Heather Fordham and Adolfo Carrion November 2, 2023 Religious leaders are teaming up to have a conversation with students about the rise in antisemitism and Islamophobia on college campuses amid the Israel-Hamas war.   Members of the Jewish and Muslim community met with students at Lehman College’s campus on Thursday to address both groups’ concerns and spread the message that hate has no place on campus. An imam and rabbi came together to meet with student leaders from various...

Southampton Press By Cailin Riley November 1, 2023 The war in Gaza is unfolding thousands of miles away, but since it began, American Jews have been embroiled in a different kind of war at home. Antisemitic attacks and threats have risen sharply since Israel began an intense bombing campaign and ground war inside Gaza, in the wake of the deadly Hamas terrorist attacks in Israel on October 7, when more than 1,400 people, including women and children, lost their lives. Since then, more than 8,000...

News 12 By News 12 Staff October 28, 2023 Rabbi Marc Schneier and Imam Shamsi Ali met with 30 Jewish Students Leaders at Beach Bakery Grand Cafe, a Kosher restaurant in the Hamptons owned by a devout Muslim family.   The group met with both Imam Shamsi Ali and Rabbi Marc Schneier at Beach Bakery Grand Cafe, a Kosher restaurant in the Hamptons owned by a devout Muslim family. “Right now, it’s really hard to be Jewish,” said Elizabeth Direktor, a student at Baruch College....