by DAOOD HAMDANI, Common Ground News Service — 11 January 2011
OTTAWA — Visitors to the history park in Edmonton, Canada often pause in front of a small, red brick building wondering about its identity. Its long and narrow rectangular shape and onion-like domes suggest that it might be an Eastern Orthodox church. While the minarets rising from either side of the front entrance and crescent moons atop the domes betray its Middle Eastern roots. Inside, there are no pews, only 70-year-old carpets, faded and worn thin at spots. It is Al-Rashid, Canada’s oldest mosque. Built in 1938, it was relocated to Fort
by YASMINE EL-RASHIDI, Ahram Online — 7 January 2011
CAIRO — Egypt's majority Muslim population stuck to its word Thursday night. What had been a promise of solidarity to the weary Coptic community, was honoured, when thousands of Muslims showed up at Coptic Christmas eve mass services in churches around the country and at candle light vigils held outside. From the well-known to the unknown, Muslims had offered their bodies as “human shields” for
by JOEL GREENBERG, Washington Post — 6 January 2011
JERUSALEM — In a converted bomb shelter in a low-income Jewish neighborhood, Ismail Jaafari, a Palestinian boxer from across town, bobbed and weaved in the ring, trading punches with an Israeli opponent. They were sparring at a local boxing club that is something of an anomaly in this ethnically divided city: a place where both Jews and Arabs pursue a shared passion. Palestinians from East Jerusalem have earned their boxing credentials at the club, training with Russian-speaking Jewish immigrants, bearded yeshiva students and settlers from
by JAN JABEN EILON, Common Ground News Service — 23 December 2010
JERUSALEM — For three years, Sharon Rosen, 57, has been co-director of the Jerusalem office of Search for Common Ground (SFCG), a non-governmental organization (NGO) which was founded in 1982 to transform the way the world deals with conflict: away from adversarial approaches and toward collaborative problem solving. Prior to this position, she served as a senior adviser for SFCG. She is also senior editor of the Common Ground News Service-
by JONAH MANDEL, Jerusalem Post — 22 December 2010
JERUSALEM — With Christmas and the year 2011 around the corner, the Latin patriarch of Jerusalem relayed his seasonal wishes to the public on Tuesday, and the IDF announced goodwill gestures to Christian Arabs in the West Bank ahead of the festive days. Speaking to the press in the capital’s Old City, His Beatitude Fouad Twal thanked the pope for convening the recent Synod of Middle Eastern Bishops, which “condemned violence, religious fundamentalism, anti-Semitism,
by JONATHAN MANDEL, Jerusalem Post — 7 December 2010
BRUSSELS — A delegation of Muslim and Jewish religious leaders from Europe met with European Council President Herman Van Rompuy in Brussels on Monday to share their initiatives for bettering the relations between the communities, as well as legislation to ensure the rights of the religious groups in Europe. The meeting with the president was part of a daylong gathering of some 50 city and state rabbis and imams from
by JOSHUA STANTON, Middle East Online — 2 December 2010
NEW YORK — Seminaries, higher education institutions where professors of religion and religious leaders train students to become clergy, have been present in the United States for centuries. Because seminary students are generally being trained as religious leaders who will oversee congregations, their seminary education has a powerful impact on these students’ future congregations. For decades, religious diversity in American seminaries meant the admission of students from different Christian denominations. Then Jews began to attend and even found prominent seminaries, notably Hebrew Union College, the Reconstructionist
CORVALLIS, Ore. — After the early Sunday morning arson at Masjid Salaam al-Farisi, a national media frenzy and FBI investigation had descended upon the usually quiet college town. But by Monday morning, things were calming down. The mosque was still a frenzy of activity though -- there was a strong media presence, but the parking lot in front of the charred prayer center on Northwest Kings Boulevard was mostly filling with community members and Corvallis religious leaders
LONDON — In a speech to an event in London Tuesday, New York Rabbi Marc Schneier — a vice-president of the World Jewish Congress and a pioneer in fostering closer Jewish-Muslim relations in North America and Europe — praised leaders of the Al-Azhar Al-Sharif University in Cairo, the oldest center of Islamic scholarship in the world, for opening up inter-religious dialogue to the Jews. The 'Banu Ibrahim — Children of Abraham Declaration' was officially delivered at a gathering
by NATHAN JEFFAY, The Jewish Daily Forward — 24 November 2010
TEL AVIV, Israel — As Israelis and Palestinians spent recent weeks blaming each other for the breakdown in peace talks, they have found themselves in agreement on one thing: Education ministries on both sides have banned a history textbook that they deemed unsuitable for their students. What is found inside the textbook that has aroused the ire of education officials in the opposing camps? The book, “Learning Each Other’s Historical Narrative,” is a joint Israeli-Palestinian production by the Peace Research Institute in the Middle East, funded by nongovernmental organizations and several Western nations, including the U.S. On the left-hand side of each page, it
OTTAWA — Visitors to the history park in Edmonton, Canada often pause in front of a small, red brick building wondering about its identity. Its long and narrow rectangular shape and onion-like domes suggest that it might be an Eastern Orthodox church. While the minarets rising from either side of the front entrance and crescent moons atop the domes betray its Middle Eastern roots. Inside, there are no pews, only 70-year-old carpets, faded and worn thin at spots. It is Al-Rashid, Canada’s oldest mosque. Built in 1938, it was relocated to Fort 
CAIRO — Egypt's majority Muslim population stuck to its word Thursday night. What had been a promise of solidarity to the weary Coptic community, was honoured, when thousands of Muslims showed up at Coptic Christmas eve mass services in churches around the country and at candle light vigils held outside. From the well-known to the unknown, Muslims had offered their bodies as “human shields” for 
JERUSALEM — In a converted bomb shelter in a low-income Jewish neighborhood, Ismail Jaafari, a Palestinian boxer from across town, bobbed and weaved in the ring, trading punches with an Israeli opponent. They were sparring at 
LONDON — In a speech to an event in London Tuesday, New York Rabbi Marc Schneier — a vice-president of the World Jewish Congress and a pioneer in fostering closer Jewish-Muslim relations in North America and Europe — praised leaders of the Al-Azhar Al-Sharif University in Cairo, the oldest center of Islamic scholarship in the world, for opening up inter-religious dialogue to the Jews. The 'Banu Ibrahim — Children of Abraham Declaration' was officially delivered at a gathering 
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