For the last two-and-a-half years, congregants and clergy from Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum’s synagogue, Congregation Beit Simchat Torah, have shown up every Friday in front of the Islamic Center at NYU in Manhattan. With warm smiles and holding handwritten signs sporting “Shalom/Salaam,” Kleinbaum and friends greet Muslim worshipers arriving for the afternoon Jummah prayers.Continue Reading
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JEWISH MPP DELIVERS CALL-TO-ACTION ON ISLAMOPHOBIA
A Jewish member of the Ontario legislature has introduced a private member’s bill that would set aside a province-wide day to consider Islamophobia and its consequences. Bill 83, “An Act to Proclaim a Day of Remembrance and Action on Islamophobia,” passed second reading in Queen’s Park on April 4 and now heads to the standing committee on social policy.Continue Reading
McJesus in Palestine: Using bad art to whitewash Israel’s crimes
On how a Finnish artist’s irreverent artworks helped Israel conceal its ongoing oppression of Palestinian Christians.Continue Reading
Jewish Islamophobia
A rabbi and a Muslim author-activist walk into a room. The rabbi discusses Islamophobia in the Jewish community and the author speaks about anti-Semitism in the Muslim world.Continue Reading