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May 15, 2024, 11:44 AM

Mimouna – Jewish Heritage and Future

March 2024 found me in a place that I never planned to visit, a land to which I had only heard my Jewish neighbors with roots there pine for -- Morocco. My family escaped the pogroms in the Ukraine, and...

Oct 10, 2023, 11:17 AM

Islam as Defender / Dafi – of Holy Places

Islam as Defender - يُدَافِعُ - dafi - of Holy Places for the Children of Abraham - in Scripture and in History True Brotherhood The rectified relationship between Ishmael and Isaac as recorded in Genesis is the key to peace between...

Mar 13, 2023, 7:30 AM

A Paradigm Whose Time has Come – Eliyahu Benamozegh’s Israel and Humanity

We live in a global world and then some. The internet has multiplied our exposure to others exponentially. The need for an intellectual framework that can address the variety of lifestyles and thought that we are constantly bombarded with,...

Mar 28, 2022, 9:40 AM

The Bedouins of Rahat – Progress and Tradition

The goodness in the Bedouin community is palpable. I witnessed it in the largest Bedouin city in Israel, Rahat, some 80,000 residents strong, just one week before the devastation in Be’er Sheva in which four Israelis were killed and...

Sep 5, 2021, 7:26 PM

A Spirit of Humanity, Unity, and Self-Criticism

If you discovered that the assumptions you have about another community were the very same assumptions that could turn around and damage yours, you would naturally re-evaluate those assumptions. Let’s take the following: Biblical criticism has long proved that Judaism...

Mar 19, 2020, 10:11 PM

Love in the Qur’an – and in the Qur’an Study Group

Love: Scriptural Teachings, Practical Application and the Safe Space of the Qur’an Study Group “Love in the Qur’an.” Sounds simple enough. I mean, I thought that writing this particular piece would be a cinch. Abrahamic religions preach love, I have met loving...

Sep 20, 2019, 6:55 PM

British Tolerance, South Asian Flair

The south Asian communities are bringing a palpable warmth to the chilly British Isles and to classic British reserve, a reserve which is expressed even in the very architecture of British homes. London streets are lined with row houses that boast lovely little...

Jun 21, 2019, 5:49 PM

Building Lines of Trust: Barriers and Opportunities

Hafiz Abdullah Muhammad at Otniel Yeshiva, Holy Land

Hafiz Abdullah Muhammad, an Islamic scholar and a lawyer, founded the Quran Study Group over twelve years ago. It is an inclusive setting where people from all walks of life can study the Qur’an and Islam, in the heart...

Apr 2, 2019, 9:57 AM

Created in Egypt, Spreads to the World from There

By the Nile

Al Fayoum, Egypt, 2016 My passion was ignited, a column was born - “Giving Voice to Muslims Who Seek Peace”, written by this orthodox Chassidic Jewess and directed at a traditional Jewish readership. I began spreading the word that the...

Apr 1, 2019, 8:40 PM

The Qur’an Study Group — an Inclusive, Authentic Space for Learning and Growth

Outside Brikbeck College, University of London

Belonging is an issue. So universal a need, the need to belong has been grappled with by philosophers from the secular to the religious. Defined as an affinity for a place or a situation, philosopher Simone Weil stated, “to be...

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About Me

Rebecca Abrahamson is co-director of AlSadiqin, an organization that researches the common heritage of Islam and Judaism. AlSadiqin strives to conform in every way to sharia and accepted convention, with the conviction that conflict resolution occur in line with scriptural values that Muslims and Jews hold dear. Peace agreements that organically grow out of our scriptures and shared histories are truly the key to lasting peace. Rebecca co-hosted a conference on making the UN Resolutions for a Culture of Peace into law at the Knesset, edited “Divine Diversity: an Orthodox Rabbi Engages with Muslims”, began a column in the Israel National News service entitled Giving Voice to Muslims Who Seek Peace and has written in the same vein for the Jerusalem Post and the Jewish Press. She is married to Ben Abrahamson, who is also active in Muslim-Jewish dialogue.

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