2006-2010

Despite resistance within their respective communities, Rabbi Schneier and Imam Omar Abu-Namous, spiritual leader of the Islamic Cultural Center of New York, the largest mosque in New York City, hold a public dialogue at the New York synagogue followed a few days later by a joint address at the Islamic Cultural Center.

Rabbi Marc Schneier addresses 200 students in grades 8-12 at the Razi School, the largest Muslim day school in New York.

FFEU hosts biannual New Ethnic Members Reception on Capitol Hill welcoming the thirteen newly elected ethnic members to Congress.

FFEU and New York University convene a Muslim-Jewish panel to explore ways to build Muslim-Jewish relations.

Rabbi Schneier joins Dr. Muhammad Yunus, 2006 Peace Nobel Prize, to address the national dinner of the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC).

FFEU facilitates CNN Public service announcement and New York Times ad featuring six rabbis and six imams who denounce Islamophobia and antisemitism.

Release of paperback version of Shared Dreams: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Jewish Community.

The largest-ever organized linking up of mosques and synagogues in North America or anywhere else in the world: 50 twinning events between Muslim and Jewish institutions in 20 U.S. States and Canada, with the endorsement of the World Jewish Congress, Islamic Society of North America, the Muslim Public Affairs Council and the Canadian Associations of Jews and Muslims. Until the weekend of Twinning, many of our Muslim participants had never before been to a synagogue and many Jewish participants had never visited a mosque. Participants expressed their amazement at the similarities between the two traditions, by the sense of common themes, customs, and beliefs.

Press conference by Rabbi Schneier and Imam Shamsi Ali at the Islamic Cultural Center with the support of ISNA and MPAC to condemn U.S. terrorist plots against synagogues.

with more than 100 mosques and 100 synagogues joining the program across the U.S., Canada, Great Britain, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Belgium, and Netherlands.

FFEU partners with Rainbow Push and National Urban League for a series of events commemorating Dr. Martin Luther King Jr (NY).

Rabbi Schneier and Martin Luther King III tour the United States to keynote events on Black-Jewish relations.

FFEU sponsors the first annual Muslim-Jewish conference in Vienna, an event that brings together 50 Muslim and Jewish students from Indonesia, Pakistan, Lebanon, Israel, and many countries across Europe.

3rd annual Weekend of Twinning becomes a worldwide phenomenon as tens of thousands of Muslims and Jews in more than 120 synagogues and 120 mosques on four continents attend the twinning events.