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 […]
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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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The Jerusalem Post By Tovah Lazaroff October 3, 2023 “Here in Riyadh we prayed with the windows open to Jerusalem,” said Israeli Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi. As a sign of movement on the road to peace with Saudi Arabia, Israeli Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi read from a Torah Scroll and prayed the morning service […]
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Frankly Speaking (Arab News’s flagship talkshow) By Katie Jensen October 1, 2023 Rabbi Marc Schneier says Jewish American community is “ecstatic” about the prospect of normalization of ties Expects to see Israel, KSA, US Congress ‘on the same page’ on US arms sales to Kingdom, help with civilian nuclear progam Explains his rationale for supporting […]
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Haaretz By Sam Sokol September 21, 2023 Turkish President Recep Erdogan’s statement came on the same day as a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and a general thaw in bilateral relations Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan denounced antisemitism as a “crime against humanity” during a meeting with Jewish leaders in New York on […]
Read moreJerusalem Post By Zvi Klein September 21, 2023 Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan noted in the meeting that he was excited to pray at the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan denounced antisemitism and announced his plans to visit Israel in a meeting with 15 Jewish leaders in New York on Wednesday. […]
Read moreRabbi Schneier on I24news addresses the significance of the opening of the Azerbaijani Embassy in Tel Aviv, the necessity to revive Israeli-Palestinian engagement to sustain and grow the Abrahamic Accords and the opportunity that arises for Israel with the Iran-Saudi Arabia rapprochement.
Read moreBy 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 […]
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By Mariam Fam, Associated Press November 29, 2022 DOHA, Qatar — Rabbi Eli Chitrik’s phone buzzes. A woman is about to show up at his Doha hotel to pick up her lunch: two bagel sandwiches. It’s one of many calls and messages Chitrik is receiving these days for bagel sandwiches, freshly made in a designated kosher […]
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By David Isaac November 23, 2022 While Qatar can hardly be considered a friend of Israel, harboring as it does Hamas and other Islamic extremists and pouring millions into the Gaza Strip, when it comes to Jews visiting the country for the FIFA World Cup it has been very accommodating, contrary to early reports which […]
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