Kazakhstan – Foundation For Ethnic Understanding

April 5, 2023 Passover means rebirth, now as much as ever

Arab News By: Rabbi Marc Schneier April 5, 2023 Passover is the holiday celebrating the birth of the Jewish nation, a recounting of how God delivered the ancient Israelites from their enslavement in Egypt and allowed them to prosper for thousands of years as a people. But this annual commemoration, sacred to Jews all over […]

November 4, 2022 Pope slams ‘childlike’ whims of powerful that start wars

By Nicole Winfield November 4, 2022 SAKHIR, Bahrain (AP) — With Russia’s war in Ukraine raging, Pope Francis joined Muslim, Christian and Jewish leaders on Friday in calling for the great religions to work together for peace, telling an interfaith summit that religion must never be used to justify violence and that faith leaders must […]

Pope slams ‘childlike’ whims of powerful that start wars (ABC News)

ABC News By Nicole Winfield (Associated Press) November 4, 2022 Pope Francis has joined Muslim, Christian and Jewish leaders in Bahrain in calling for the world’s great religions to work for peace SAKHIR, Bahrain — With Russia’s war in Ukraine raging, Pope Francis joined Muslim, Christian and Jewish leaders on Friday in calling for the great religions to work together […]

November 3, 2022 First session of Bahrain Dialogue Forum held

November 3, 2022 Manama, Nov. 3 (BNA): The opening session of the “Bahrain Dialogue Forum: East and West for Human Coexistence” highlighted the importance of interreligious dialogue regionally and internationally. The session on “Promoting Global Coexistence and Human Fraternity” was moderated by Aladdin Project President, Dr. Leah Pisar. Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (SCIA) President, […]

September 23, 2022 Kazakhstan’s Unique Story of Building Interfaith Dialogue and Co-existence Must Be Told, Says US Rabbi

The Astana Times By Aibarshyn Akhmetkali September 22, 2022 ASTANA – With rising geopolitical confrontations around the world, the seventh Congress of Leaders of World and Traditional Religions that took place in Astana on Sept. 14-15 could not have been more timely. Attended by high-level religious leaders, such as Pope Francis and Grand Imam of al-Azhar Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayeb, the congress […]

Марк Шнайер:«Евреям повезло, что они живут в такой толерантной стране, как Азербайджан»

Stegmi Media Group Azerbaijan September 23, 2022 Интервью СТМЭГИ с президентом Фонда этнического взаимопонимания (ФЭВ), американским раввином Марком Шнайером. – Недавно вы посетили Азербайджан. Скажите, пожалуйста, с чем был связан ваш визит? – Я считаю Баку своим вторым домом. Я бываю в Азербайджане 2-3 раза в году. У меня особые близкие отношения с Президентом Ильхамом […]

September 16, 2022 Leaders musulmans et juifs en faveur du dialogue interconfessionnel au Kazakhstan

i24News 16 septembre, 2022 Le grand rabbin David Lau a discuté avec le grand imam égyptien d’al-Azhar, Ahmed el-Tayeb Lors du Congrès inter-religieux au Kazakhstan, le dialogue judéo-musulman était au rendez-vous. Cette grande conférence interconfessionnelle, la septième à se tenir dans la capitale kazakhe Nur-Sultan, a rassemblé quelque 80 chefs religieux musulmans, juifs, chrétiens, bouddhistes […]

September 15, 2022 Muslim, Jewish leaders work for interfaith dialogue in Kazakhstan

i24News September 15, 2022 ‘Would like to say out loud the things we are able to say between us,’ Rabbi Lau tells Grand Imam of al-Azhar At the Congress of Leaders of World and Traditional Religions in Kazakhstan, Jewish-Muslim dialogue was ripe. The major interfaith conference– the seventh to be held in the Kazakh capital […]

Kazakhstan: Jewish Rabbi upholds role of religions in promoting peace (from Vatican News)

Herald Malaysia online (article from Vatican News) By Benedict Mayaki, SJ & Deborah Castellano Lubov September 15, 2022 American-born Rabbi Marc Schneier, the President of the Foundation for Ethnic Understanding, and a participant at the 7th Congress of Leaders of World and Traditional Religions, underscores the importance of religion in peace-building and speaks against imposing […]

September 14, 2022 Kazakhstan: Jewish Rabbi upholds role of religions in promoting peace

Vatican News By Benedict Mayaki, SJ & Deborah Castellano Lubov September 14, 2022 American-born Rabbi Marc Schneier, the President of the Foundation for Ethnic Understanding, and a participant at the 7th Congress of Leaders of World and Traditional Religions, underscores the importance of religion in peace-building and speaks against imposing religious beliefs on others. The […]

June 17, 2021 New Middle East Bigger Than Any One Government

Jewish Journal By: Rabbi Marc Schneier June 17, 2021 From North Africa through the Middle East to Central Asia, governments are more assertively staking out their Israelophilic credentials, confident in the response of publics that now want closer connectivity to Israel and its people. If anyone harbored doubts about the sustainability of Israel’s newfound partnerships […]

May 3, 2021 Jews are increasingly welcome in the Islamic world

The National By: Rabbi Marc Schneier May 03, 2021 Almost 100,000 Jews live in the Muslim world today, spread out across 14 countries on three continents. This figure is far short of the hundreds of thousands of Jews that formerly flourished in the African, Asian and European countries where Islam is dominant. But for the […]