The Jewish Week By Sandee Brawarsky A local rabbi and imam try to bridge a wide gulf. Rabbi Marc Schneier is the founder and president of the Foundation for Ethnic Understanding, an organization that works internationally to promote understanding and cooperation between Jews and other ethnic communities. He recently published with Imam Shamsi Ali “Sons […]
Jewish Telegraphic Agency A conference commemorating the effects of the Holocaust on Tunisian Jews was held in Tunis. Historians, scholars and authors spoke at Saturday’s conference, which remembered the 5,000 Jews subjected to forced labor in Tunisia during a six-month Nazi occupation of the country in 1942-43. Some were deported to Nazi death camps on […]
Huffington Post By Rabbi Marc Schneier December 12, 2013 In 2003, I traveled to South Africa with my dear friend, Martin Luther King III, at the invitation of the South African Jewish Board of Deputies, where we spoke at their centenary celebration on the state of black-Jewish relations in the United States. During the civil […]
Former Mayor of New York, David N. Dinkins, joined Reverend Al Sharpton, Marc H. Morial and FFEU leadership in speaking out on knockout game violence and the targeting of Jews.
Huffington Post By Rabbi Marc Schneier and Imam Shamsi Ali December 6, 2013 When we tell people that we have written a book together entitled Sons of Abraham: A Candid Conversation About the Issues that Divide and Unite Muslims and Jews, many respond with comments like: “There must be a million things that divide Jews and […]
“Say NO to K.O.”: Mayor David Dinkins Speaks Out Against the Knockout Game “Say NO to K.O.”: Rev. Al Sharpton Speaks Out Against the Knockout Game
Marc Morial, President and CEO of the National Urban League, joins Reverend Al Sharpton, Russell Simmons, and Rabbi Marc Schneier in condemning the knockout game and it’s targeting of Jews.
Hip-hop legend, and Chairman of the FFEU, Russell Simmons condemns the knockout game and it’s targeting of Jews.
Rabbi Marc Schneier, President of the FFEU, thanks Rev. Al Sharpton, Marc Morial, and Russell Simmons for standing in solidarity with the Jewish community and all victims of the knockout game violence.