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Huffington Post By Jaweed Kaleem When a group of Arab college students visiting New York met last week for a Ramadan iftar, they were greeted with an unexpected keynote speech. Rabbi Marc Schneier, head of The Hampton Synagogue on Long Island and the leader of the Foundation for Ethnic Understanding, an interfaith-oriented nonprofit, had come by for what initially seemed simple and routine: Sharing about his religion and his belief in Muslim-Jewish friendship. Instead, he addressed the tension in...

Islam iQ „Antisemitismus kein Teil unserer Geschichte und soll es auch nicht werden.“ Wir sprachen mit Moussa Al-Hassan Diaw, der sich aktiv in der „Foundation for Ethnic Understanding“ (FfEU) engagiert, über die jüdisch-muslimischen Beziehungen in Europa und wie diese weiter ausgebaut werden könnten. Moussa Al-Hassan Diaw ist Diplom Pädagoge und Doktorand am Institut für Islamische Theologie der Universität Osnabrück (IIT). Er beschäftigt sich mit religiösem Fundamentalismus und dem Phänomen des...

Huffington Post By Rabbi Marc Schneier Rabbi Schneier with Rep. James E. Clyburn (D-SC) at the Congressional Reception Two weeks ago, as the nation marked the 50th Anniversary of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, a unique ceremony took place in the US Capitol, commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the 1964 Freedom Rides Summer and honoring the 25th Anniversary of the Foundation for Ethnic Understanding (FFEU). In addition to celebrating 50 years since the 1964 Civil Rights Act, the ceremony paid tribute...

The Yeshiva World As the nation marked the 50th Anniversary of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, a unique ceremony took place in the US Capitol, commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the 1964 Freedom Rides Summer and honoring the 25th Anniversary of the Foundation for Ethnic Understanding (FFEU). The ceremony paid tribute to three civil rights activists, one African-American and two Jewish-Americans: James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner, who were brutally murdered while working on the “Freedom...

Global Grind https://youtu.be/4kKTg4iIJsw As the nation marked the 50th Anniversary of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, a unique ceremony took place in the US Capitol, commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the 1964 Freedom Rides Summer and honoring the 25th Anniversary of the Foundation for Ethnic Understanding (FFEU). The ceremony paid tribute to three civil rights activists, one African-American and two Jewish-Americans: James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner, who were brutally murdered while...

Al Arabiya Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Sunday called the Holocaust “the ugliest crime humanity has known in modern history,” a rare acknowledgment by an Arab leader of Jewish suffering during the Nazi genocide.Abbas also said he felt compassion for the victims and their families. Some 6 million Jews perished in the Nazi genocide during World War II. His comments were published by the Palestinian official news agency WAFA just hours before the start of Israel’s annual...

TIME Magazine By Sam Frizell   Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Sunday called the Holocaust “the most heinous crime” of modern history. “[W]hat happened to the Jews in the Holocaust is the most heinous crime to have occurred against humanity in the modern era,” Abbas said in a meeting with the American rabbi Marc Schneier, the Associated Press reports. The official Palestinian news agency WAFA quoted Abbas as expressing his “sympathy with the families of the victims and many other innocent...

Los Angeles Times By Batsheva Sobelman and Kathleen Hennessey At a time when the Middle East peace process appears stymied, Israel received an unexpected olive branch when Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas denounced the Holocaust and expressed sympathy with its victims. But Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu labeled the comments a play for public opinion and called on the Palestinian leader to “tear up” his recent pact with the militant Islamist movement Hamas. “What...

Jewish Telegraphic Agency JERUSALEM (JTA) — Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas called the Holocaust “the most heinous crime to have occurred against humanity in the modern era.” The statement, made in advance of Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day, or Yom Hashoah, was published Sunday by Wafa, the official Palestinian news agency. It also featured a call on the Israeli government “to conclude a just and comprehensive peace in the region” that was rejected by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin...

Haaretz By Barak Ravid Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas released a special message on Sunday in Arabic and in English on the occasion of Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day, in which he decried the murder of Jews in the Holocaust as “the most heinous crime against humanity in modern history. This is the first time a Palestinian president has ever made such a public declaration. Haaretz reported last week that Abbas was due to release the message to the Jewish people ahead of the Israeli...