"Od Yavo Shalom Aleinu... Salaam"
In this video, Uganda's Kasiisi Primary School joins with Jewish and Muslim volunteers from around the world to share a call for peace in Hebrew, Arabic and English. This video is a project of Children of Abraham, a peace initiative launched by Jerry Katz, a former Peace Corps volunteer. It is a powerful example of Muslims and Jews working side-by-side in peace and in service to others. Together, we, a group of Jewish and Muslim Africans and one American, taught this song to more than 1,000 Ugandan children and their teachers. As you can see, our joy in celebrating this call for peace is palpable. Help support this initiative and Kasiisi Primary School at the link at the bottom of the page.
What Is The Purpose Of The "Children Of Abraham Project"
2019:01:30
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 work together to help others. Our hope is that every Jew and every Moslem will, as part of their life, see working on a project with each other as a normal and anticipated part of their life.
We invite you to volunteer to become a part of our Jewish-Moslem reconciliation project. We have projects in India, Uganda, and Bangladesh. We are also trying to create a project in Israel/West Bank.
No one is excluded. We do not care if you are a left wing peacenik or a right wing rejectionist. We do not care if you are a Jew who mistrusts Moslems or a Moslem who mistrusts Jews. We ask only that you are willing to live and work together on a common project...
Rabbi and Imam Teach at Gandhi Ashram in Coexistence First
March 29, 2019 13:46
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 Abdullah Faaruuq, a 71-year-old American-based imam, became roommates for a month at the Gandhi Ashram in Ahmedabad, India.
The two became fast friends, bonding over the cultural differences in their new temporary home and documenting their experiences on Facebook and Instagram.
Born Jeremy David Stadlin in Philadelphia, the young rabbi traveled through several dozen countries around the globe before settling in Israel where we was ordained by the late Rabbi Sholom Brodt of Yeshivat Simchat Shlomo in Jerusalem. He chronicled his journeys and lessons learned in his 2016 book Sustainable Bliss.
Faaruuq was born Jeconiah Barrow to a Jamaican immigrant mother in the rough streets of Boston. Growing up in the civil rights era, he gravitated to Islam, eventually becoming active at the Mosque for...
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 Abdullah Faaruuq, a 71-year-old American-based imam, became roommates for a month at the Gandhi Ashram in Ahmedabad, India.
The two became fast friends, bonding over the cultural differences in their new temporary home and documenting their experiences on Facebook and Instagram.
Born Jeremy David Stadlin in Philadelphia, the young rabbi traveled through several dozen countries around the globe before settling in Israel where we was ordained by the late Rabbi Sholom Brodt of Yeshivat Simchat Shlomo in Jerusalem. He chronicled his journeys and lessons learned in his 2016 book Sustainable Bliss.
Faaruuq was born Jeconiah Barrow to a Jamaican immigrant mother in the rough streets of Boston. Growing up in the civil rights era, he gravitated to Islam, eventually becoming active at the Mosque for...
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