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Fast Forward A Mosque Converted A Holocaust Survivor To Islam. Local Jews Are Skeptical.
AMSTERDAM (JTA) — On the national day of mourning for Holocaust victims in the Netherlands, a major mosque in the kingdom’s capital celebrated the conversion to Islam of a Jewish survivor of that genocide. At least, that’s what Amsterdam’s Blue Mosque said. According to its Facebook, 87-year-old Sal van Coeverden converted on May 4, the Dutch…
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Fast Forward French Imams Say They Are Ready To Help Counter Muslim Extremism
(JTA) — Thirty imams in France signed an open letter calling on their colleagues to help counter Muslim extremism. The letter, which appeared Tuesday in the daily LeMonde, expressed “compassion for all our fellow citizens who have been directly or indirectly affected by terrorism and by the anti-Semitic crimes that have blindly struck our country.”…
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Opinion A Muslim Student At Yale Was Accused Of Rape. The People Who Stood By Him Were Jews.
Saifullah Khan grew up in a refugee camp in Afghanistan. In something of an American dream, he won a full scholarship to Yale University, where he studied neuroscience. Then, in November 2015, just one semester short of getting his degree, he was accused of raping a classmate. Khan was arrested and charged; he was also…
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Fast Forward Muslim Pol And Jewish Leader Want To Rebuild Synagogue In Berlin
A Palestinian-German politician and the chairman of Berlin’s Jewish community are hatching a plan to rebuild a grand synagogue destroyed by Nazis and their supporters in 1938, the Washington Post reported. The Fraenkelufer synagogue was largely destroyed during Kristallnacht, in 1938. Raed Saleh and Gideon Jaffe hope to raise enough money for a new synagogue…
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Fast Forward American Jews And Muslims Have More In Common Than We Thought, Study Finds
(JTA) — The more that American Jews and American Muslims interact with each other, the more likely they are to see the two faiths as more similar than different, a comprehensive study of Muslim-Jewish relations in America has found. Fifty-four percent of Jews and 65 percent of Muslims surveyed in a poll for the Foundation…
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Community How Living In A Muslim Country Made Me Lose My Faith In Orthodox Judaism
A version of this article originally appeared in Plus 61J, an Australian Jewish publication. I had my greatest revelation about Judaism while studying Arabic in Cairo. I was in the middle of my master’s degree in Middle Eastern Studies at St Antony’s College, Oxford. Part of the course requirement was spending the summer learning a…
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Fast Forward Muslim Hijab Brand Creates Pro-LGBTQ Rainbow Scarf
Yesterday, UK-based Gay Times reported that MOGA, a Muslim-owned Melbourne brand that sells women’s headscarves and shawls, would be re-issuing their pro-LGBTQ rainbow-print scarf for Sydney, Austrailia’s annual Mardi Gras celebration. The Pride flag-esque hijab was created last year to support Australia’s legalization of same-sex marriage — legislation which Australia’s parliament overwhelmingly voted in favor…
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Fast Forward Everyone Loved This French-Muslim Singer. Then They Read Her Facebook Posts.
(JTA) — In a deeply divided nation that is still reeling from a toxic presidential election last spring, as well as jihadist and racist attacks, Mennel Ibtissem’s performances offered a rare vision of hope. The blue-eyed Muslim woman sang Arabic and French-language renditions of Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” on national television in France while wearing a…
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