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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...

The Jerusalem Post By Lahav Harkov February 11, 2020 “There’s a regional balance of power,” Rabbi Marc Schneier explained. “In order to affect a real change, the Saudis would need to meet with the Israeli prime minister.” Meetings between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman or leaders of other Gulf States will not take place before the March 2 election in Israel, Rabbi Marc Schneier told The Jerusalem Post on Tuesday. These leaders are considering a...

Noticias de Israel February 11, 2020 Las reuniones entre el primer ministro Benjamin Netanyahu y el príncipe heredero saudí Mohammad Bin Salman o los líderes de otros Estados del Golfo no tendrán lugar antes de las elecciones del 2 de marzo en Israel, dijo el rabino Marc Schneier a The Jerusalem Post el martes. Estos líderes están considerando una cumbre con Netanyahu, pero “quieren esperar hasta que las elecciones terminen”, dijo Schneier. Schneier, presidente de la organización de diálogo interreligioso...

Black Star News By Judy Kuriansky February 10, 2020 Pervasive violence. Devastating climate change. Religious and racial intolerance. Deadly epidemics. These themes threatening our world today were taken on by a panel of faith leaders, experts and high-level officials at a commemoration of an event during World Interfaith Harmony Week celebrated annually in early February at the United Nations. Entitled “The State of the World Today from a Religious and Spiritual Perspective,” and held at a UN...

London School of Economics Middle East Center By Adam Hoffman and Dr Moran Zaga February 10, 2020 Dr Muhammad al-Issa’s unprecedented visit to the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp on 23 January 2020, the 75th anniversary of its liberation, marked a peak in a process of interfaith momentum that has been recently evident in the Muslim world, and more specifically in the Gulf. As Secretary-General of the Muslim World League, Al-Issa is the most senior Islamic leader to visit Auschwitz. In one of the statements...