Category: Blog
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Rabbi and Imam Teach at Gandhi Ashram in Coexistence First
Written by Ben Bresky An American-Israeli rabbi and an African-American Muslim imam were like fish out of water during a special trip to a Hindu ashram in India. Like a reality TV show, two people from two different communities were recently thrown together in a challenging environment. Pesach Stadlin, an Israeli-based rabbi in his 30s, and…
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Simple Oneness
Written by Rabbi Mattisyahu Brown It was still pleasantly cool in the Holy Land, and I sat by the open door to my breezy balcony in Jerusalem, on the phone with a remarkable soul, a courageous Palestinian peacemaker from Jericho named Mohamed Jamous. I actually didn’t know him well. We had actually met once before, briefly at…
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What Is The Purpose Of The “Children Of Abraham Project”
Our idea is simple. We send a Jew and a Moslem to work on a humanitarian project for 30 days and during the 30 days, they live together and work together. We want to change the perception of Jews and Moslems as communities in conflict to a perception of Jews and Moslems as communities who…