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A Jew and a Muslim talk about Gaza

Dave Moskovitz — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 22:08:03 +0000

In early January at the height of the fighting in Gaza, bFM’s Joe Nunweek rang up Anjum Rahman and myself to pick up the conversation from where we left off from our 2006 Aotearoa Ethnic Network Journal articles on Jewish and Muslim perspectives on the Israel-Palestine conflict.

Here are the bFM podcasts:

Dave Moskovitz:

Anjum Rahman:

The bottom line: While Anjum and I have different perspectives on history and the core issues, we continue to be good friends and seek to support those who work for peace.

Thanks to Joe and bFM for running excellent, balanced, and yet probing interviews.

Dave

Joint Jewish, Christian, Muslim appeal for Gaza

Dave Moskovitz — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 01:37:23 +0000

Faiths Working Together Appeal

The Archbishop of Canterbury, the Chair of the Muslim Charities Foundation, Dr Hany El Banna and the Head of the Movement for Reform Judaism, Rabbi Dr Tony Bayfield, are calling on people of all faiths to give generously to the Faiths Working Together Appeal to help rebuild shattered lives in Gaza.

“I hope that all people of faith – and all of goodwill – will support this initiative by giving generously and by using all available websites and other resources to contribute and to spread the word.” – Dr Rowan Williams

“I warmly support this initiative as a model for cooperation between the Abrahamic faiths and welcome the practical concern for all the victims of the conflict, regardless of faith or nationality.“ –Rabbi Dr Tony Bayfield, Head of the Movement for Reform Judaism.

Donations will be collected by Christian Aid and then used by Physicians for Human Rights-Israel, Christian Aid and Islamic Relief to fund their relief, reconstruction and post emergency work.

To donate, visit: http://www.faithsworkingtogether.org/donate/

Muslims and Jews join forces in Guardian podcast

Dave Moskovitz — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 07:56:52 +0000

The Guardian’s Islamophonic and Sounds Jewish podcast teams have joined forces in an inspiring podcast. If you don’t listen to any other podcast audio this year, listen to this, as it’s a model for how we can work together to explore the crunchy issues:

The first half of the podcast focusses on how the conflict in Gaza has affected Jewish-Muslim relations in the UK, and moves on to a feature on to the Mu-Jew Crew – a Muslim-Jewish theatre team, and finally to a Muslim-Jewish comedy duo.

The damage done by the Gaza conflict to Jewish-Muslim relations runs deep, but this podcast shows that we can keep the conversation going, and look for new ways of working together to build a better future.

Dave

Wellington Interfaith Prayer Vigil for Peace in the Middle East – audio

Dave Moskovitz — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 21:08:35 +0000

A group of about 100 people from many faiths gathered last night at St Andrew’s on the Terrace in Wellington New Zealand for an Interfaith Prayer Vigil and Candle Lighting for Peace in the Middle East.

It was a very moving ceremony and demonstrated the ability for many people from different faiths, ethnicities and political viewpoints to come together and pray for a common purpose.

Speakers included:

Tiopira Rauna (LDS, Secretary of the Wellington Regional Interfaith Network)
Dr Margaret Mayman (Reverand of St Andrew’s on the Terrace)
Rev Godfrey Nicholson (Vicar of St Peter’s on Willis)
Sultan Eusuf (Chief Officer, Federation of Islamic Associations)
Rabbi Johanna Hershenson (Wellington Progressive Jewish Congregation)
Ratilal Champaneri (President, NZ Indian Central Association)
Carrie Coddington (Past Secretary, Baha’i Kapiti Network)
Melanie Gregg and Lime (Soka Gakkai NZ)

You can download or listen to an audio recording (35 minutes, 16 MB):