Muslim World League – Foundation For Ethnic Understanding

March 23, 2023 How Saudi-Iran accord can be an opportunity for Israel

Arab News By: Rabbi Marc Schneier March 23, 2023 The recent diplomatic breakthrough between Saudi Arabia and Iran could be seen as an opportunity for the state of Israel, far from the account commonly encountered in the Western and Israeli press. The accord brokered in Beijing offers hope for creating a more tranquil Middle East, […]

January 26, 2023 The Arab world is ready to learn about the Holocaust

By Marc Schneier January 25, 2023 As the UAE introduces Holocaust education in schools, the Arab world prepares itself to tackle the historical gap of knowledge. Let us be clear: The Gulf region and the Arab world do not bear culpability for the infamy of the Nazi Holocaust against the Jews. That responsibility rests solely on the Nazis, their […]

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 […]

November 6, 2021 L’Arabie saoudite, véritable défenseur du modèle interconfessionnel

Arab News French By: Rabbi Marc Schneier November 06, 2021 – Le Dr Mohammed ben Abdelkarim al-Issa, secrétaire général de la Ligue islamique mondiale, est devenu presque unanimement un champion interconfessionnel à l’échelle mondiale – Du centre Etidal, qui combat l’idéologie extrémiste, à l’adhésion aux délégations œcuméniques, le Royaume prouve sa réelle détermination à faire […]

January 10, 2020 FFEU European Coordinator Selim Cherkaoui shares his meeting with Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar in Russia

The Foundation For Ethnic Understanding-FFEU’s European Coordinator Selim Cherkaoui joins us from Red Square in Moscow, Russia to share some highlights from his meeting with Rabbi Berel Lazar, Chief Rabbi of Russia, including how Russia is dealing with interreligious dialogue, what they are doing in the fight against anti-Semitism.

December 29, 2019 Black-Jewish Leadership To Condemn Anti-Semitism In New York

Rev. Al Sharpton, founder of the National Action Network, has put together a group of African American clergy and civil rights leaders to meet with Rabbi Marc Schneier, president of the Foundation for Ethnic Understanding, to condemn the horrific attacks on Jews in the New York Metropolitan Area over the past few weeks.

October 23, 2019 Jewish And Muslim Historic Interfaith Partnership

As the first anniversary of the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting approaches, The Foundation for Ethnic Understanding (FFEU) and the Muslim World League announced an historic partnership for an innovative Season of Twinning program that will bring together rabbis and imams and their synagogues and mosques.