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The Jerusalem Post By Marc Schneier December 23, 2019 The proliferation of antisemitic attacks this year in the United States and globally shook the global Jewish community to its core – the attack on the Chabad of Poway Synagogue, a synagogue in Halle, Germany, the kosher supermarket in Jersey City, New Jersey, this month, and unfortunately, the list goes on and on. However, amid our grief, fear and anger at these escalating attacks, and at increased demonization of Israel from the likes of the...

5 Towns Jewish Times December 12, 2019 Rabbi Marc Schneier and Prince Abdulla Bin Hamad Bin Isa Al Khalifa of Bahrain Rabbi Marc Schneier, founding/senior rabbi of The Hampton Synagogue in Westhampton Beach, NY, and president of the Foundation for Ethnic Understanding (FFEU), will lead the first synagogue mission to Azerbaijan and Oman early next year. The eight-day trip will begin in Azerbaijan where participants will meet with high-level government and public officials and local Jewish leaders....

Medium By Kevin Singer December 4, 2019 Kevin Singer is a PhD Student in higher education and Research Associate for IDEALS at North Carolina State University. According to the new IDEALS national report on interfaith friendship, Evangelical Protestant institutions are negatively associated with first year college students making close friends of other faiths. “Students at Evangelical Protestant institutions may find themselves in more homogenous communities,” the report reads. Many Evangelical...

AZERTAC December 03, 2019 Rabbi Marc Schneier, founding and senior rabbi of The Hampton Synagogue in Westhampton Beach, New York, will lead the first synagogue mission to Azerbaijan and Oman early next year, according to TPS news agency. The eight-day trip will begin in Azerbaijan where participants will meet with high-level government and public officials, and local Jewish leaders. The group will celebrate the Purim holiday with the Jewish community of Azerbaijan. They will then travel to Oman to...

Arutz Sheva Staff December 03, 2019 15:52 Rabbi Marc Schneier, founding/senior rabbi of The Hampton Synagogue in Westhampton Beach, NY, to lead delegation to Muslim nations. Rabbi Schneier with the President of Azerbaijan Rabbi Marc Schneier, founding/senior rabbi of The Hampton Synagogue in Westhampton Beach, NY and president of the Foundation for Ethnic Understanding (FFEU), will lead the first synagogue mission to Azerbaijan and Oman early next year. The eight-day trip will begin in Azerbaijan...

The New York Daily News By Marc Schneier, Sayyid Syeed and Bob Roberts November 27, 2019 As hundreds of millions of adherents of our three interconnected Abrahamic traditions — Judaism, Islam and Christianity — sit down at Thanksgiving dinner tables across America, many of us will devoutly give thanks for the presence in their lives of husbands and wives, children, members of their extended families and dear friends. Indeed, expressing our love for those to whom we are closest is an inspiring sentiment...

Kleine Zeitung Von Ingo Hasewend November 17, 2019 Dass mit Franziskus der erste Papst die arabische Halbinsel besuchte, war eine Sensation. Ebenso die Annäherung der Golfstaaten an Israel. Dahinter steht auch ein Rabbi mit Familienwurzeln in Wien: Marc Schneier Als Papst Franziskus im Februar die Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate besuchte, wurde dies als Sensation gefeiert. Erstmals setzte ein Pontifex seinen Fuß auf die arabische Halbinsel und damit auf Mutterboden der heiligsten Stätten des Islams....

The Gulf Times November 10, 2019 SALT LAKE CITY — Monday I greeted His Excellency Dr. Mohammad Al-Issa of Saudi Arabia as he came to sit before the Deseret News editorial board. This Muslim leader is secretary-general of the Muslim World League and was in Utah to meet with leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as well as Utah government officials. His message was impressive . He spoke of the need to gain mutual understanding and meaningful cooperation across religions and countries....

Deseret News By Doug Wilks November 9, 2019 SALT LAKE CITY — Monday I greeted His Excellency Dr. Mohammad Al-Issa of Saudi Arabia as he came to sit before the Deseret News editorial board. This Muslim leader is secretary-general of the Muslim World League and was in Utah to meet with leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as well as Utah government officials. His message was impressive. He spoke of the need to gain mutual understanding and meaningful cooperation across religions...

Newsweek By Hunter Moyler November 5, 2019 Muslim and Evangelical Christian students convened at a conference at Wheaton College over the weekend to explore what they could do to ameliorate relations between their two religious groups, a situation the event’s organizers called “the greatest interreligious challenge of our time.” The conference, which took place on November 1-2 was arranged by Neighborly Faith, an organization that bills itself as “a nationwide movement bringing...