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News Jesse Jackson Convenes Jews, Muslims and Christians to Stand Together
The Reverend Jesse Jackson convened a meeting of leaders from Chicago’s Jewish, Muslim, and Christian communities February 24 to discuss ways to fight the recent outpouring of hate crimes, particularly against Jews and Muslims. The meeting, held at KAM Isaiah Israel Congregation, the Hyde Park synagogue that sits across the street from former President Barack…
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News From A West Bank Settlement to Forging Jewish-Muslim Ties In Chicago—One Rabbi’s Story
Rabbi Michael Davis was born in the United Kingdom and immigrated to Israel with his family as a child to become a settler. He grew up in a West Bank settlement, where he attended an Orthodox yeshiva and later served in the Israel Defense Forces. But as a young man, Davis began to question the…
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News Muslim Campaign For Jewish Cemetery Praised As ‘Beautiful Gesture’ — But Some Question Motives
Updated, 12:06 p.m. Two Muslim American activists have raised more than $110,000 to help repair a vandalized Jewish cemetery in Missouri. It’s a high-profile gesture headlined by Linda Sarsour, a prominent Palestinian-American critic of Israel. Now, Jewish groups are grateful — but pondering what it means. “This is another way for us to publicly defy…
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Fast Forward Muslims ‘Overjoyed’ As $130K In Donations Pour In For Vandalized St. Louis Jewish Cemetery
Muslim activists Linda Sarsour and Tarek El-Messidi have launched a crowdfunding campaign to support the repair of a St. Louis Jewish cemetery that was vandalized over the weekend — and the response has been overwhelming. The campaign, which aimed to raise $20,000, exceeded its target in three hours — and had drawn more than $130,000,…
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Life Amazingly, One Can Care About Anti-Semitism and Islamophobia
It is plainly upsetting that JCCs, which are among other things nursery schools, are getting bomb threats. It’s sufficiently non-controversial to call this bad that even Ivanka Trump, even (eventually) President Trump, got on that bandwagon. Not everyone, however, is similarly convinced. Journalist Michael Tracey is at the ready with a contrarian take on whether…
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Community Is Judaism A Good Model For Islamic Reform?
Mustafa Akyol’s recent New York Times column, What Jesus Can Teach Today’s Muslims, bravely broaches one of the most important issues today: reform in Islam. The separation of church and state, the position of women, the role of violence— all of these factors and more must be addressed for the Muslim world to experience its…
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Fast Forward Jenna Jameson Defends Trump’s Sweden Comments
Jenna Jameson, the porn star who converted to Judaism and loves Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, defended President Trump’s speech that referred to fictional terrorism in Sweden. In a series of tweets, Jameson ranted against “roving Muslim rape gangs” in the Scandinavian country. Swedish citizens were baffled after President Trump referred to “what’s happening last…
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Fast Forward J.K. Rowling Tweets ‘Such A Beautiful Thing’ About Muslim Campaign For Vandalized Jewish Cemetery
(JTA) — British author JK Rowling offered her support in a tweet to a Muslim-supported crowdfunding campaign to repair a vandalized St. Louis-area Jewish cemetery — spurring a big upsurge in donations. Rowling, the author of the popular Harry Potter series of books, on Wednesday morning uin Britain tweeted a link to an article about the…
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