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Rabbi David Rosen, international director of interreligious affairs at the American Jewish Committee. Credit: Courtesy.

Ambassadors from US, UAE, Bahrain to jointly celebrate Lag B’Omer/Iftar

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Jewish communities in the Gulf will hold a joint virtual Lag B’Omer/Iftar celebration hosted by the Association of Gulf Jewish Communities (AGJC), the people-to-people network of Jewish communities from the Gulf Cooperation Council countries...
Philadelphia NAACP president Rodney Muhammad. Source: Screenshot.

The community-relations outreach trap

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Maybe everything would be better if we could all go for walks in the woods with people who say or tweet hateful and deeply offensive things. Then again, maybe the Jewish community would be...
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Tel Aviv University touts ‘unprecedented’ Hebrew paper by Saudi academic

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In what Tel Aviv University is calling an “unprecedented” development, the latest issue of one of its academic journals includes an article in Hebrew by a senior Saudi academic. The paper, titled “Contribution to Prophet Muhammad’s...

Intercultural dialogue as a necessary prelude to interfaith dialogue

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Religions and cultures cannot fall into the trap set for them by hegemonic powers. They cannot continue to be sources of conflict among themselves or to legitimize the misleading clash of interests of the...
Rabbi Professor Avraham Steinberg at the presentation of a signed declaration to Pope Francis. Credit: Chief Rabbinate Spokesperson Kobi Alter.

Heads of three Abrahamic faiths sign historic document against ‘mercy killing’

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The heads of major monotheistic faiths signed a historic document at Vatican City in Rome on Monday that calls on doctors around the world not to assist in killing people, even if they are...

Live from Jerusalem: ‘Teacher and preacher’ program bridges chasm between Jew and Christian

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What happens when a devout Christian minister and equally devout Orthodox Jew 9,000 miles apart wrestle with the most sensitive of subjects, while 100,000 people across the country eavesdrop? They discover is that their two...

A rabbi, a reverend and an imam have a plan for peace in middle...

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When most people think of Omaha, they imagine sizzling steaks, billionaire Warren Buffet or even former NFL quarterback Peyton Manning calling out before the snap. (Remember "Omaha-Omaha"?). But if a group of clergymen have their...