Posts Tagged: Muslim Jewish Relations
Holocaust Remembrance in a Muslim Country
JNS.org - Marking Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day in an Arab country would once have been considered unthinkable. Yet this is exactly what a group of...
Saudi Cleric Attacked for Denouncing Antisemitism
Saudi cleric Mohammed Al-Issa visited Auschwitz earlier this year, and last week, he addressed the American Jewish Committee's online global forum. He expressed a desire...
Muslims Stand With Jews at Buchenwald
While antisemitism is on the rise in the West, it’s declining in the East. In Bangladesh’s capital, people urged me to convince their government to...
Islam’s Jewish Dilemma Revisited
JNS.org - In his important book Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition, the scholar David Nirenberg makes the persuasive case that Islam has faced similar theological challenges to...
Muslim Teen Brushes Off Claims He’s a Hero for Helping Arrest Attacker Who Hit Jewish Woman
A Muslim teen who has drawn praise for helping police arrest a Brooklyn man who attacked a Jewish woman on Tuesday night was quick to announce...
Anti-Trump Boycott of Azerbaijan-Hosted Hanukkah Party Will Harm Muslim-Jewish Ties, Leaders Say
JNS.org -- The decision by eight Jewish organizations to boycott a Hanukkah event sponsored in part by the government of Azerbaijan could harm Muslim-Jewish relations,...
Major Jewish Organization Condemns Double-Slaying of Imam, Assistant
JNS.org - The American Jewish Committee's (AJC) US Director of Muslim-Jewish Relations condemned the killing of Imam Maulama Akonjee and his assistant, Thara Uddin, shot in Queens, New York...
Israel and the Jews Should Forget the West, and Look East
The anniversary of the Yom Kippur War always reminds one of Israeli fallibility, arrogance, and overconfidence, yet also of its capacity to defy the odds...
