Imam Shamsi Ali – Foundation For Ethnic Understanding

November 30, 2023 A Wave of Hate Crime Unleashed by Israel-Hamas War Is Testing the World

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. […]

November 29, 2023 The disturbing rise of antisemitic and Islamophobic hate crimes

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 […]

November 10, 2023 Rabbi Marc Schneier and Imam Shamsi Ali on MSNBC discussing their work to combat antisemitism and hatred on college campuses

Rabbi 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.

November 6, 2023 Rabbi Marc Schneier and Imam Shamsi Ali condemn hate speech and Islamophobia

FFEU President Rabbi Marc Schneier and Nusantara Foundation President Imam Shamsi Ali speak out against hate speech (FOX | Nov. 3, 2023).

November 3, 2023 Muslim & Jewish faith leaders come together to discuss peace, unity with New York college students

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 […]

Faith leaders meet with students to discuss hate on college campuses

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 […]

November 1, 2023 Rabbi Marc Schneier of Hampton Synagogue and Prominent New York City Imam Host Jewish College Students To Foster Inter-Faith Understanding

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, […]

October 28, 2023 Jewish students share their college campus experiences with Imam amid pro-Palestine, pro-Israel protests

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. […]

February 23, 2022 Indonesia passes tolerance test over Holocaust museum

Arab News By: Rabbi Marc Schneier February 23, 2022 Indonesia is more than just the beaches of Bali, skyscrapers of Jakarta or coffee and clove fields of Java. It is also the fourth most-populous nation in the world, the home to more Muslims than any other country and a historic beacon of religious tolerance. For […]

January 20, 2022 How Colleyville Unfolded

Jewish Journal By: Aaron Bandler January 20, 2022 It began like any other Saturday morning for the synagogue, at least the type of Saturday morning to which the Jewish community has become accustomed in the age of COVID-19. “I’m grateful to be alive.” Those were the words that concluded Congregation Beth Israel Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker’s […]

January 17, 2022 Tree of Life rabbi shares support for Colleyville synagogue

The Jerusalem Post By: Jerusalem Post Staff January 17, 2022 Rabbi Jeffrey Myers, head of the Pittsburgh synagogue that was targeted in a deadly antisemitic attack in 2018, expressed his support for the Beth Israel synagogue following a hostage crisis. Rabbi Jeffrey Myers, head of the Tree of Life synagogue in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood […]

May 19, 2021 “Sons of Abraham” featured at the Abu Dhabi International Book Fair 2021

FFEU President Rabbi Marc Schneier’s greeting message to the visitors of the prestigious Abu Dhabi International Book Fair taking place from May 23-28, 2021. Rabbi Schneier co-authored with Imam Shamsi Ali the book, “Sons of Abraham: A Candid Conversation about the Issues That Divide and Unite Jews and Muslims,” which is being distributed at the […]