This week witnessed one of the most brutal terror attacks France has known. From this dark chapter came the following stories about two heroic Muslims.
The Muslim heroes of the Paris terror attacks
- January 10, 2015
This week witnessed one of the most brutal terror attacks France has known. From this dark chapter came the following stories about two heroic Muslims.
This Wednesday there was a brutal terror attack on the offices of Charlie Hebdo
Rabbi Schlesinger examining damage done by Jewish extremists to a local Palestinian olive grove Nine months ago I opened the front door of my apartment in Alon Shvut and took a 20-minute walk that began to change my life. My wife asked me to reconsider – it might be dangerous, she said – but I […]
Since the 9/11 terror attack Islam has been placed under a spotlight and it isn’t uncommon for people to think that Islam and terrorism are synonymous.
The Prime Minister of Israel and a spokesman for the Israeli army received surprising messages asking for help to save the Jobar Synagogue in Syria.
Over the last decade there has been a surge in the restoration of Jewish synagogues by Muslims.
A 2,000 year old synagogue is hidden away in the picturesque region of Yefren, high up in Libya’s Nafusa mountains.
As 2014 draws to a close we wanted to honour some of the inspirational individuals that rose above the political tensions that divide Jews and Muslims and extended a hand of friendship.
1. The first mosque in Britain The Shah Jahan Mosque is famous for being Britain’s first purpose-built mosque, but one of the most incredible twists in the mosques story was that it was commissioned by a Jewish man, Dr Gottlieb Wilhelm Leitner. He commissioned the mosque in 1889 to provide a place of worship for […]
Both the Mishna and the Quran state ‘Whoever destroys a single life is as though he had destroyed the entire world, and whoever saves a single life is as if he had saved the entire world’