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Ambassador seeks to break the perpetrator–victim narrative

On: March 3, 2015

By Janis Siegel, Jewish Sound Correspondent While Middle East experts wring their hands in hopes that moderate leaders can prevail in the region, George Deek, Israel’s former vice ambassador to Norway, is calling upon Palestinian Arabs to take charge of their own fate and their own future, and to stopContinue Reading

Scandinavian Jews see silver lining in strong Muslim response to Denmark shootings

By: Federation

On: February 23, 2015

In: The Jewish World

By Cnaan Liphshiz, JTA World News Service As a longtime promoter of Jewish-Muslim dialogue in Denmark, Naveed Baig is no stranger to Copenhagen’s Great Synagogue. The imam at the capital’s Danish Islamic Center, Baig, 39, has on numerous occasions sat under the structure’s gold-and-white ceiling meeting with people he calls his “JewishContinue Reading