King Salman – Foundation For Ethnic Understanding

February 20, 2024 Sport — a unique platform for furthering social cohesion and combating hate

Arab News By: Rabbi Marc Schneier February 18, 2024 Professional sports attract enormous viewing audiences in countries around the world. They have the power to inspire collaboration and friendship between athletes of diverse races, religions and nationalities, who then inspire the building of friendships and understanding between fans of divergent backgrounds. No country has understood […]

October 6, 2023 World Expo 2030: Saudi Arabia is a world leader on interreligious cooperation

Arab News By: Rabbi Marc Schneier October 6, 2023 Count me as a passionate supporter for electing Riyadh as the host city for the 2030 World Expo, under the motto “The Era of Change: Together for a Foresighted Tomorrow.” Rarely, if ever, has a candidate city to host the World Expo contributed more profoundly in […]

August 23, 2022 Grief and generosity in Giza

Arab News By: Rabbi Marc Schneier August 22, 2022 Forty-one innocent souls, including 15 children, died when fire devoured a Coptic Orthodox church in Giza on Aug. 14 — an unspeakable loss that shocked Egypt to its core. As fear levels rose, the tragedy threatened to become another point of division in a country beset […]

July 14, 2022 Reunited GCC a gift ahead of Biden’s Saudi visit

Arab News By: Rabbi Marc Schneier July 13, 2022 President Joe Biden is traveling to Jeddah at a time of unprecedented regional cohesion and coordination, offering hope for fresh advances on peace and stabilization efforts in a part of the world that has known too much strife and conflict. During his visit, an American commander-in-chief […]

November 8, 2021 Saudi Arabia — the true champion of the interfaith model

Arab News By: Rabbi Marc Schneier November 4, 2021 Five years ago, the very notion of Yeshiva University, the pre-eminent institution of higher Jewish learning in the US, honoring the secretary general of the Makkah-based Muslim World League would have been met with stupefaction or downright indignation. But such is the astounding ascendance of […]