Articles, Videos and News

Interfaith

• (V) What Muslims and Jews Should Learn from Brandeis, Yossi Klein Halevi and Abdullah Antepli [Article]
  “This isn’t an issue about free speech, which we support unequivocally. Rather, this is about whether our communities should honor and promote each other’s renegades. What distinguishes a dissident from a renegade is that while a dissident aims at changing aspects of his or her faith community, a renegade simply damns it.“
• (V) Unity in Diversity, Reza Aslan, TEDxConejo [18 minutes]
  “It’s not knowledge that changes minds. It’s relationships.” 
• (V) The Danger of a Single Story, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, TED Talk [18 minutes]
  “The single story creates stereotypes. And the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story.” 
• (B) Sharing the Well, A Resource Guide to Jewish-Muslim Engagement, guidelines, essays, and engagement programs
• (B) Children of Abraham: A Guide to Jewish-Muslim Dialogue 
• (B) No God but God, Reza Aslan (teacher’s guide)
• (F) David: One Boy. Two Faiths. Idealized story of two schoolboys–a Muslim and a Jew–who become friends under unlikely circumstances. (fiction)
• (F) Arranged: Friendship has no religion. Two observant women bond over their family’s matchmaking impositions. (fiction)
• (F) Delicious Peace Grows in a Ugandan Coffee Bean  A documentary exploring an interfaith partnership of coffee growers come together. Dated because of events that took place later in the partnership, Delicious Peace still offers a glimpse of possibilities. (nonfiction)
• (F) The Life of Muhammad (PBS) “…if you want to understand who [Muslims] are, the best place to start is with this story of Muhammad, because he established a model of behavior and values which Muslims strive to emulate today.” (nonfiction)

Israel-Palestine

• (A) Healing the Holy Land, Interreligious Peacebuilding in Israel/Palestine, Yehezkel Landau, D. Min [Research report]
  “This report argues for the inclusion of religious leaders and educators in the long-term peacebuilding that is required to heal the bitter conflict between Israelis and Palestinians.”
• (A) Journey Towards the Other, Rabbi Hanan Schlesinger, co-Founder of Roots [Article]
  “Ali’s reality made its way into my heart … and I will never be the same.  His truth has not made mine any less true, rather it has shown my truth to be only part of the complex web of the reality in which we live. My life has become so much more complicated as I hold within my consciousness two conflicting truths that are both valid.”
• (B) Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor (2nd edition), Yossi Klein Halevi

Religious Literacy

• (V) Religion & Democracy, [27 minutes]
  CBSNews looks at the challenges America faces when it comes to religious bigotry and why this climate of fear and intolerance is a threat to our democracy.
• (A) The Denominations of Judaism
  A quick look at Reform, Conservative, Orthodox and Reconstructionist Judaism — and at other Jewish streams.
  

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