Category Archives: Muslim-Jewish

I wish the otherwise excellent Beliefnet would mark when a certain article was posted. For example I have no idea how old this warm personal piece is that I came across today about gradeschoolers showing what they learned about the … Continue reading →

Here is an excerpt from an Arizona Daily Star article. More there: Sunday (March 25) afternoon’s fourth annual Jewish-Muslim Peace Walk for the first time will begin at a Downtown locale — the Historic Stone Avenue Temple, 564 S. Stone … Continue reading →

Lindsay Katona wrote up her spring break experience for NYU’s student newspaper. She coordinated and participated in a Jewish-Muslim Alternative Spring Break trip to New Orleans with a goal of bringing “15 Jews and 15 Muslims together to help rebuild … Continue reading →

I first saw it at the European Jewish Press and then at the Associated Press of Pakistan, that “Inayat Bunglawala, assistant secretary general of the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB), is due to speak at the Jewish Community Centre for … Continue reading →

Muslims and Jews in Cotati, California organized some fun time for their children and themselves as the Press Democrat article recounts. “Leslie Gattmann, director of the synagogue’s religious school Aisha Morgan, director of the Islamic Society’s religious school, organized the … Continue reading →

Adah Hetko, a 15 year old girl wrote up her experiences for the Times Union (of Albany, NY) how she organized interfaith storytelling for children. She attended the adult version with her parents, but recognized the need for more children. … Continue reading →

The American Muslim published an article by Rabbi David Rabeeya that caught my attention. He is an Iraqi Jew who describes himself as “Culturally Arab, Religiously Jewish, 100% American.” Besides the self-analysis (of the seemingly conflicting parts of his background … Continue reading →

I just read a review of Christopher D. Ringwald’s A Day Apart: How Jews, Christians, and Muslims Find Faith, Freedom, and Joy on the Sabbath at the Houston Chronicle‘s website. The author did extensive scholarly research about the history of … Continue reading →

The Face2Face project is to make portraits of Palestinians and Israelis doing the same job and to post them face to face, in huge formats, in unavoidable places, on the Israeli and the Palestinian sides. http://face2faceproject.com/

Here is a quote from a TV station’s website: Christian, Jewish and Muslim leaders are urging Congress to extend health insurance coverage to all of America’s children. At a news conference, the clerics said 9-million American children are uninsured. Rabbi … Continue reading →