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Newsweek By: Derrick Johnson and Rabbi Marc Schneier President and CEO of the NAACP; President of the Foundation for Ethnic Understanding February 01, 2022 You may wonder why the president and CEO of the NAACP and a prominent New York rabbi are joining forces for Black History Month. The answer is simple: Today, our communities are facing increased discrimination, violence and prejudice. These are the same threats which Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., together with Black and Jewish activists, fought...

Jewish Journal By: Aaron Bandler January 20, 2022 It began like any other Saturday morning for the synagogue, at least the type of Saturday morning to which the Jewish community has become accustomed in the age of COVID-19. “I’m grateful to be alive.” Those were the words that concluded Congregation Beth Israel Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker’s Facebook post after he was held hostage for 11 hours inside the synagogue in Colleyville, Texas, that he has been part of since 2006. The situation had the Jewish...

Israel Today By: Yossi Aloni January 19, 2022 “This is another expression of the change that the Middle East is undergoing towards Jews and Israel” In another sign of rapprochement between Saudi Arabia, the State of Israel and the Jewish world, the Saudi newspaper Arab News recently appointed Rabbi Marc Schneier as a regular columnist. Rabbi Schneier is the first rabbi to write for any Saudi newspaper as a regular columnist. Arab News is the leading English-language newspaper published in Saudi...

The Jerusalem Post By: Jerusalem Post Staff January 17, 2022 Rabbi Jeffrey Myers, head of the Pittsburgh synagogue that was targeted in a deadly antisemitic attack in 2018, expressed his support for the Beth Israel synagogue following a hostage crisis. Rabbi Jeffrey Myers of the Tree of Life synagogue walks after speaking to reporters on October 29, 2018(photo credit: BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI / AFP) Rabbi Jeffrey Myers, head of the Tree of Life synagogue in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh,...

Ynet By: Itamar Eichner January 09, 2022 Arab News, the leading Saudi newspaper published in Saudi Arabia and the Persian Gulf, has appointed senior Orthodox Rabbi Marc Schneier as a regular columnist for the paper. “This is another expression of the change that the Middle East is undergoing towards Jews and Israel,” the rabbi told Ynet. Another sign of the rapprochement between Saudi Arabia and the State of Israel and the Jewish world: The respected Saudi newspaper, “Arab News”,...

AZERTAC January 7, 2022 Israeli “i24 News” TV channel has broadcast a program highlighting a genuine friendship between the Jewish and Azerbaijani peoples. Speaking at the program, President of the US-based Foundation for Ethnic Understanding Rabbi Marc Schneier emphasized that Azerbaijan, which hosts the largest Jewish community among the Muslim countries, is a model of tolerance among all nations. He noted that more than 8,000 Jews live in Azerbaijan, adding that along with representatives of...

The Jerusalem Post By: Jeremy Sharon December 14, 2021 Azerbaijan will become one of only a handful of Muslim-majority countries to mark the day. The facade of the school building on the set of “Shttl,” a French-Ukrainian production about the Holocaust.(photo credit: KP/STAR MEDIA) Azerbaijan will for the first time mark International Holocaust Day on January 27, becoming one of only a handful of Muslim-majority countries to commemorate the day. President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev made...

Arab News French By: Rabbi Marc Schneier November 06, 2021 Le pape François saluant le Dr Mohammed ben Abdelkarim al-Issa, secrétaire général de la Ligue islamique mondiale, au Vatican, le 20 septembre 2017. (Reuters) – Le Dr Mohammed ben Abdelkarim al-Issa, secrétaire général de la Ligue islamique mondiale, est devenu presque unanimement un champion interconfessionnel à l’échelle mondiale – Du centre Etidal, qui combat l’idéologie extrémiste, à l’adhésion aux délégations...

The Azeri Times August 28, 2021 Rabbi Marc Schneier, President of the Foundation for Ethnic Understanding (FFEU), welcomed to the United States His Excellency Khazar Ibrahim, Ambassador of Azerbaijan to the U.S., at the Embassy of Azerbaijan in Washington, DC on August 25th, 2021. Rabbi Schneier presented Ambassador Ibrahim with his new book, Sons of Abraham, which will be translated into Azeri this fall. Rabbi Schneier emphasized he looked forward to working with the Ambassador on upcoming global...

The Azeri Times August 20, 2021 (L-R: Rabbi Marc Schneier, President of the Foundation for Ethnic Understanding, Ambassador Elin Suleymanov and Israel Nitzan, Consul General of Israel in New York) Rabbi Marc Schneier, President of the Foundation for Ethnic Understanding (FFEU) hosted, on Tuesday, August 17, 2021, a farewell luncheon in New York City in honor of H.E. Elin Suleymanov who served as Ambassador of the Republic of Azerbaijan to the United States from 2011 to 2021 and is now called to be...