Category Archives: Muslim-Jewish

Positive connections

Bikur Ha-Tizmoret (The Band’s Visit, 2007, Israel)

I enjoy cross cultural movies with positive images. Particularly if they are set in Israel or show Jewish-Arab/Muslim/Palestinian relations. This was not the only reason I enjoyed The Band’s Visit, but it was a big part of it. Every time … Continue reading

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The Mellah of Marrakesh

AllAfrica.com ran a review of Emily Gottreich’s book: The Mellah of Marrakesh: Jewish And Muslim Space in Morocco’s Red City. They pretty much lifted the description from Amazon.com that starts with, “weaving together threads from Jewish history and Islamic urban … Continue reading

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Film Collaboration

Sandi DuBowski, the producer and director of Trembling before G-d, a movie about orthodox Jewish homosexuals, has been producing a new film, for the past 5 1/2 years on Islam and homosexuality with Muslim gay filmmaker Parvez Sharma. DuBowski writes, … Continue reading

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WUSTL Dialogue Group

Pamela Barmash is a professor at the Washington University in St Louis. She is also the 17th woman rabbi ordained in the Conservative movement. She is also an author, her first book is about Homicide in the Biblical world. But … Continue reading

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European Conference on Jewish-Muslim Dialogue

The only place where I read about the “European Conference on Jewish-Muslim Dialogue” held in Brussels last week was Ekklesia, a Christian News service. [The event] welcomed seventy Jews and Muslims from Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark, the UK and France … Continue reading

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Project TRIUMPH

YourHub.co’s Simi Valley section covers Project TRIUMPH’s program. The Daily News has a longer summary of how it went this year,i ncluding quotes from the participants. You can also watch three videos related to the event on YouTube. And in … Continue reading

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Photo-Art Exhibition

The East London Advertiser brought me the news that Gitl Braun, an Orthodox Jewish woman artist staged her own one-woman photo-art exhibition, in London’s East End, in the Jagonari Women’s centre. (Open from May 8 to June 1.) It is … Continue reading

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In Honor of Khaled Abdelwahhab

From Voice of America: The Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles has honored an Arab Muslim who saved Tunisian Jews from Nazi persecution. In the Tunisian town of Mahdia an Arab man named Khaled Abdelwahhab decided to help the Boukris … Continue reading

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Helping Fire Victims

These two unrelated items landed on my screen on the same day. From the Arab American News: On April 3, someone set off an explosive device outside the Ben Weider Jewish Community Centre in Montreal. Fortunately, there were no damages … Continue reading

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Muhammad Movie at Passover

I read about this event in The Weekly of Gwinnett County in Georgia. Inspired by a challenge from Oglethorpe University‘s president, Lawrence M. Schall, students have created three faith-based student organizations in six months. And this first Jewish president in … Continue reading

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