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Even when deep tensions exist we must focus on the process of reconciliation, argues Rabbi Marc Schneier By Rabbi Marc Schneier December 17, 2024, 7:35 pm   The recent firebombing at the Adass Israel synagogue in Melbourne, Australia, a house of worship built by Holocaust survivors, left the Australian Jewish community and world Jewry in a state of outrage. This antisemitism attack follows the kidnapping and the killing of Rabbi Zvi Kogan in the United Arab Emirates by terrorists. I was personally...

For the past year, the world has witnessed a litany of demonstrations at the highest level of tensions between Muslims and Jews beyond the Middle East. By MARC SCHNEIER NOVEMBER 17, 2024 02:59 We are in the midst of a raging conflict between Muslims and Jews worldwide. Last Thursday evening, Amsterdam was the scene of one of the most disgraceful and despicable antisemitic acts in Europe since World War II. Pro-Palestinian assailants attacked Israeli fans of the Maccabi Tel Aviv soccer...

Ultra-Orthodox Jews pray at the Western Wall in Jerusalem’s Old City, Thursday, Sept 21, 2006. The two-day festival of Rosh Hashanah that marks the beginning of the Jewish new year will start at sunset Friday. Thousands of Jews are expected to visit the holy sites in the Old City during the holiday period. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti) The horrific events of October 7, when Hamas unleashed a brutal attack, were not just an act of extreme violence; they were also a calculated attempt to destabilize...

(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...