By Rabbi Marc Schneier January 14, 2024 The challenge remains as to whether Black activists today will emulate Dr. King in unequivocally denouncing the rise of antisemitism in America and calling it out within their community. The image is chilling in its overt and malevolent celebration of the brutal Hamas attack of last […]
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By Bart Jones Long Island / Suffolk – ONLY IN NEWSDAY December 17, 2023 War is raging in the Middle East, but in Westhampton Beach an example of peaceful coexistence between Muslims and Jews is thriving. About five years ago, Rashid Sulehri, a Muslim immigrant from Pakistan, bought the only kosher bakery on […]
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By Bloomberg News November 30, 2023 Hamas’s assault and the Israeli military response in Gaza is fueling antisemitism and Islamophobia faster than governments can react. Three college students of Palestinian descent out walking over the Thanksgiving break were shot in Vermont. A synagogue in Berlin was hit with Molotov cocktails. And a mosque in Ottawa was smeared with excrement. […]
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Desert News By Hanna Seariac November 29, 2023 On Saturday, three college students of Palestinian descent were shot and injured in Burlington, Vermont, as they walked to a family member’s home for dinner. Authorities are currently investigating this attack as a possible hate crime, The Associated Press reported. A 48-year-old man named Jason Eaton […]
Read moreRabbi Marc Schneier, President of the Foundation for Ethnic Understanding, and Imam Shamsi Ali, spiritual leader of the Jamaica Muslim Center, talk about their work to combat antisemitism and hatred on college campuses.
Read moreFFEU President Rabbi Marc Schneier and Nusantara Foundation President Imam Shamsi Ali speak out against hate speech (FOX | Nov. 3, 2023).
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CBS New York By Jennifer Bisram November 2, 2023 NEW YORK — As the Israel-Hamas war continues, faith leaders from both the Muslim and Jewish faiths came together Thursday to talk with college students in the Bronx, hoping to promote peace. They met with Muslim students at CUNY’s Lehman College. “We feel as religious […]
Read moreFOX 5 NY’s Sharon Crowley reports on Rabbi Schneier and Imam Ali’s meeting with Muslim student leaders at CUNY’s Lehman College (Nov. 2, 2023)
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News 12 By Heather Fordham and Adolfo Carrion November 2, 2023 Members of the Jewish and Muslim community met with students at Lehman College’s campus on Thursday to address both groups’ concerns and spread the message that hate has no place on campus. An imam and rabbi came together to meet with student leaders […]
Read moreRabbi Marc Schneier discusses with I24News plans to combat antisemitism on college campuses (Oct. 31, 2023)
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Southampton Press By Cailin Riley November 1, 2023 The war in Gaza is unfolding thousands of miles away, but since it began, American Jews have been embroiled in a different kind of war at home. Antisemitic attacks and threats have risen sharply since Israel began an intense bombing campaign and ground war inside Gaza, […]
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News 12 By News 12 Staff October 28, 2023 The group met with both Imam Shamsi Ali and Rabbi Marc Schneier at Beach Bakery Grand Cafe, a Kosher restaurant in the Hamptons owned by a devout Muslim family. “Right now, it’s really hard to be Jewish,” said Elizabeth Direktor, a student at Baruch College. […]
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