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Yeshiva World News January 19, 2020 Rabbi Marc Schneier of the Hampton Synagogue met with the Saudi Arabia Foreign Minister last week, and spent Shabbos in Riyadh. Schneier is the founder of the Foundation for Ethnic Understanding, originally to rebuild the historic Black-Jewish alliance in the United States and for the past 15 years, to build Muslim-Jewish relations globally, and has met with many Gulf State leaders. In an interview with Ynet, Schneier said he predicts that Baharain will be the...

Deutsche Welle By Christoph Strack January 19, 2020 Few Muslims have visited the notorious site of some of history’s worst atrocities. But high-ranking leaders of Muslim and Jewish communities are coming together to mark 75 years since the extermination camp’s liberation. In 2013, the leader of Berlin’s Social Democratic parliamentary group, Raed Saleh, visited the Auschwitz Birkenau memorial site with a group of pupils. The fact that Saleh, who was born in the West Bank and came...

Saudi Press Agency January 15, 2020 Riyadh, Jan 15, 2020, SPA — Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Member of the Cabinet Adel bin Ahmed Al-Jubeir received at his office here today President of the Foundation for Ethnic Understanding Marc Schneier. During the meeting, they reviewed efforts to achieve coexistence of people of different religions and cultures in addition to the Kingdom’s support for all efforts exerted to achieve security, peace and coexistence. Click here to read...

Saudi Press Agency January 15, 2020 Riyadh, Jan 15, 2020, SPA – Prince Faisal bin Farhan bin Abdullah, Minister of Foreign Affairs, received at his office here today President of the Foundation for Ethnic Understanding Marc Schneier. During the meeting, Prince Faisal stressed the importance of promoting common human values ​​among people of different religions and cultures in a way that achieves the principle of coexistence and respect for cultural diversity, which is a basis for promoting...

New York Jewish Week By Stewart Ain January 8, 2020 In the search for solutions to a spike in anti-Semitic attacks around the city, some have begun challenging a new bail law that eliminates pretrial detention for misdemeanor and nonviolent felony suspects. Following violent attacks on Jewish victims in Brooklyn and a bloody home invasion in Monsey, top officials, including Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins, appear open to modifying the new law to allow for bail...

Por Israel January 7, 2020 Entrevistamos al Rabino Marc Schneier, que instaló alianza con el Rev. Al Sharpton Rabino Marc Schneier: «Cuando la comunidad afroamericana nos precisó porque luchaban por sus derechos civiles, los judíos los ayudamos. Hoy que nuestros derechos civiles son violados, precisamos que ellos nos ayuden a nosotros. Hoy los precisamos a ellos. No podemos lograrlo solos». En el marco del aumento generalizado de la cantidad de incidentes antisemitas en diferentes partes del mundo,...

The Jewish Week By Stewart Ain January 1, 2020 $4 million UJA-Fed. security effort, beefed-up NYPD presence and calls for National Guard follow Monsey assault. A vicious machete assault at a rabbi’s home in upstate Monsey capped a month of startling anti-Semitic attacks and prompted action by political leaders and Jewish organizations, including a $4 million plan by UJA-Federation of New York, to deploy security experts throughout the area. “It’s clear that more needs to be done from a security...

The Jerusalem Post December 31, 2019 A group of African-American clergy and civil rights leaders gathered by the Rev. Al Sharpton met with a New York rabbi in the wake of the attack on Jews in Monsey. The African-American leaders met Monday with Rabbi Marc Schneier, president of the Foundation for Ethnic Understanding, to condemn the spate of attacks on Jews in New York in recent weeks. “I am terribly disturbed by the recent antisemitic attacks on Jews, and particularly because they were perpetrated...

Arutz Sheva By Marcy Oster December 31, 2019 Following Jersey City and Monsey attacks, Al Sharpton convenes black leaders for meeting with Rabbi Marc Schneier. A group of African-American clergy and civil rights leaders gathered by the Rev. Al Sharpton met with a New York rabbi in the wake of the attack on Jews in Monsey. The African-American leaders met Monday with Rabbi Marc Schneier, president of the Foundation for Ethnic Understanding, to condemn the spate of attacks on Jews in New York in recent...

AM New York By Ryan Tarinelli, Jim Mustian and Larry Neumeister December 31, 2019 A man charged with federal hate crimes Monday in a bloody attack on a Hanukkah celebration had handwritten journals containing anti-Semitic references and had recently used his phone to look up information on Hitler and the location of synagogues, authorities said. Grafton Thomas, 37, was held without bail after appearing in federal court in White Plains on five counts of obstructing the free exercise of religious...