Mas’ood Cajee’s article on The Top Ten Good News Stories Of 2006 at Alt.Muslim included a section on Small breakthroughs in Muslim-Jewish relations, Palestine struggle. Here are a few excerpts from the list:
- 120 Imams & Rabbis from 31 countries and four continents who gathered in Seville, Spain. In addition to chatting it up, they committed to working on joint projects, such as the protection of sites in the Holy Land.
- Holocaust awareness efforts are held by Muslims. Young Muslim Londoners who comprise City Circle kicked off their annual lecture series by hosting Roman Halter, a Holocaust survivor. The event came in the wake of controversy surrounding Holocaust Memorial day in the UK. City Circle has previously hosted Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg to talk about genocide with Mufti Barkatulla. American Muslim activists visited the Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC with survivor Johanna Neumann, who credits her survival to an Albanian Muslim family. Audiences in California flocked to Holocaust survivor Annette Herskovitz’s talks about the role of Muslims in rescuing Jewish children in wartime Paris.
- The World Ethnic Market trade show in California, which paired Kosher and Halal products for the first time under one roof in an American trade show. The show followed a successful previous one in the UK. “The halal market in the US is the little brother to the kosher market and has a lot to learn,” Jalel Aossey of Cedar Rapids, Iowa-based halal food processor Midamar Corp, told the Los Angeles Times. “I wondered if this would work, but food is a good way for people to come together.”