Jewish people in a small city in Texas, USA, handed Muslim worshippers the keys to their synagogue after the town’s only mosque was destroyed in a fire. The Victoria Islamic Centre burned down and had previously been burgled. The fire took place just hours after Donald Trump announced he would ban citizens from seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the US, and halted the…
Birmingham, England – Hundreds of mosques around the UK threw open their doors to Britons as part of an initiative to counter misconceptions about the Muslim community. More than 150 mosques took part in the “Visit My Mosque” project recently, drawing crowds of curious visitors. The event, organised by the Muslim Council of Great Britain (MCB),…
By Rabbi Allen Maller President Donald Trump’s executive order banning refugees from entering the USA left much of the American Jewish community horrified “ particularly as the announcement came on International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Rabbi Rick Jacobs, the head of the Union of Reform Jewry, compared the order to the Dred Scott court decision upholding…
Missouri State: The Missouri chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-Missouri) and the Imam Council of Metropolitan St. Louis (ICMSTL), a body that represents 18 Islamic Centers in the Metropolitan area, condemned the vandalism targeting a historic Jewish cemetery in University City. The Imam Council will be encouraging Muslim congregations to donate money to…
Ahmed Warsame has been appointed director of global emergencies, staff security and supply management by the UN’s High Commissioner for Refugees. The Somalia-born humanitarian aid worker has spent most of the past 30 years in areas where some of the world’s worst conflicts have occurred, including south Sudan, Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda and Pakistan. In the…
When it comes to mass discrimination, history has not been kind to people of Jewish faith. That’s why the local chapter of Jewish Voice for Peace has taken to solidarity with what it believes to be persecuted refugees and those of Muslim faith, even if it is as simple as a sign that says “Refugees…
A brave Muslim student from a high school in the USA, helped cops bust a man who randomly slammed his open hand into an Orthodox Jewish woman’s face on a Brooklyn subway train. Ahmed Khalifa, 17, of Midwood chased down Rayvon Jones, 31, after he attacked the woman, “It was a very hard slap, I…
Anas al-Hakim feels at home in Charlottenburg, where he found an apartment adapted to wheelchair users. Berlin: (Germany): Seeing Anas al-Hakim navigate the hallways at the Technical University of Berlin, one would think he knows everyone on campus. “I enjoy meeting people and I have made good friends in Germany,” said the computer science and…
A few years ago, Imran Qureshi was working out at a local gym in Montreal, Canada, when he spotted a notice about the Quebec Ride to Conquer Cancer, a 200-kilometre cycling trip from Montreal to Quebec City that raises money for cancer research and treatment programs at the Jewish General Hospital. Qureshi didn’t have much…
A Muslim woman in Nigeria has donated food to 50 Christian widows and their families to help them celebrate the recent Christmas season. Hajiya Ramatu Tijjani, who is known locally as a Muslim peace ambassador, donated bags of rice and other food staples to at least 50 widowed women at the Christ Evangelical Church Ministry…
