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Rabbi Marc Schneier shared with Iton Gadol, the Jewish news website for the Argentinian Jewish community, how more than 50% of the Gulf states are interested in partnering with Israel on a response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Arab News, an English-language daily newspaper published in Saudi Arabia, covered FFEU's groundbreaking new social media series for Ramadan, "30 Faces of Islam for the 30 Days," along with other international media outlets.

In Rabbi Marc Schneier's op-ed in USA Today, he wrote about how the advent of the Coronavirus has compelled the three Abrahamic faiths — Judaism, Christianity and Islam — to rethink how to maintain their ability to come together to express their beliefs and practice their religious rituals.

Sputnik (Italian) March 11, 2020 Sembra che i Paesi del Golfo, tradizionalmente ostili a Israele, si stiano riavvicinando Tel Aviv, secondo il rabbino Marc Schneier, consigliere del Re del Bahrein. Tuttavia, non sarà possibile instaurare relazioni diplomatiche solide fino a quando la questione palestinese non sarà risolta. Alla luce dei risultati della terza tornata di elezioni di Israele, il primo ministro Benjamin Netanyahu, che ha tenuto un discorso poco dopo l’annuncio dei primi risultati,...

Sputnik March 4, 2020 Gulf nations that have traditionally been hostile to Israel now appear to be getting closer to Tel Aviv, believes Rabbi Marc Schneier, an advisor to the King of Bahrain. But full diplomatic relations are not yet possible as long as the Palestinian issue remains unresolved. While the official results of Israel’s third general polls have yet to be announced, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who gave a victory speech shortly after the first results started coming in, promised...

The Micah Report By Micah Halpern Tuesday February 25, 2020 I’ve Been Thinking: Times are changing. I’ve said it before and I know I’ll be saying it again – and again. An Israeli rabbi was invited, as part of a group of interfaith leaders, to meet the King of Saudi Arabia in his palace. Rabbi David Rosen spent 2 1/2 days in Saudi Arabia. The group is called the King Abdullah International Center for Interreligious and Intercultural Dialogue. Rabbi Rosen is a member of the...

Times of Israel (French) By Raphael Ahren February 24, 2020 David Rosen, invité à Ryad dans le cadre d’une réunion interconfessionnelle, salue ce “moment révolutionnaire” ; mais dit que la question palestinienne reste un “plafond de verre” Pour la première fois de l’histoire des temps modernes, un rabbin a rencontré le monarque saoudien à Ryad la semaine dernière. Le roi Salmane Ben Abdel Aziz a reçu au palais royal le rabbin David Rosen, basé à Jérusalem – signe du...

China Daily By Harvey Morris February 19, 2020 In the late 1950s, I was among the countless number across the world who fell prey to a global pandemic of what, in those politically incorrect days, was called “Asian flu”. I had an unpleasant week or so. In London alone, almost one-in-two schoolchildren caught the bug. Mercifully, most of us were not among the 2 to 4 million worldwide who died in the 1956-58 outbreak. It was a relatively modest toll compared to the “Spanish flu”...

The Jerusalem Post By Lahav Harkov February 13, 2020 Greenblatt to continue work on ties between Israel and Gulf States. US President Donald Trump’s former representative for international organizations Jason Greenblatt may have left his White House job in September, but he’s not leaving his work in the region, he told The Jerusalem Post at the sidelines of the OurCrowd Global Investor Summit in Jerusalem on Thursday. “I have been very inspired by the region,” Greenblatt said. “We are at a historical...

The Jerusalem Post By Marc Schneier February 13, 2020 As a Jew, the upsurge of anti-Chinese bigotry triggered by the coronavirus brings back painful memories of medieval Europeans blaming Jews for the spread of the Black Death. Fear of the supposed “Yellow Peril” is back big time. The rapid spread of the coronavirus from its point of origin in Wuhan, China, where the first confirmed case was documented on December 31, to more than a dozen countries around the world has understandably sparked concern...