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Jewish group: Dialogue with Muslims more urgent than ties with Vatican
By Shlomo Shamir, Haaretz Correspondent
Tags: Israel News, Jewish World 

A top Jewish umbrella organization in the United States is launching a campaign to initiate dialogue and cooperative efforts with the Muslim community.

The Jewish Council for Public Affairs announced the initiative as part of a bid to shift the focus from the community's recent rapprochement with Pope Benedict XVI. While restoring good ties with the Catholic Church is seen as important, especially following the fallout over the bishop who was reinstated despite his past statements denying the Holocaust.

There is a growing sense among activists and rabbis in the Jewish community that reaching out to American Muslims is a more urgent need than relations with Catholics.
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The JCPA says it seeks to foster greater Jewish-Muslim cooperation in promoting civil rights, defending civil liberties, and combating terrorism. The JCPA also says it seeks to join forces with Muslims to combat anti-Semitism, xenophobia, and anti-Islamic prejudice.

"Now we must move beyond myopic focus on Jewish-Christian relations and face the real challenge of the 21st century: Jewish-Muslim dialogue," said Rabbi Marc Schneier, the head of the Foundation for Ethnic Understanding.

"The battle will be uphill, the struggle difficult, the discomfort inevitable, but Muslim leaders have the opportunity to echo the historic declaration of the Vatican's Nostra Aetate," Schneier said, referring to the Catholic Church's official repudiation of the age-old accusation of deicide against the Jews
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  1.   peace 22:38  |  c. schmidt 17/03/09
  2.   Shlomo I heartedly agree with you. 22:45  |  Lou Medel 17/03/09
  3.   Yes, but `dialogue` doesnt mean self-deluded idiocy 22:47  |  Stein 17/03/09
  4.   Why mention Catholics at all 23:01  |  Dave Duncan 17/03/09
  5.   Dialogue with Muslims 23:34  |  Avraham 17/03/09
  6.   God Bless America 23:42  |  American 17/03/09
  7.   Obviously not much interst in this avenue to peace 00:15  |  gregory 18/03/09
  8.   Islamic Jew hate is Roman, not Muslim 00:17  |  Jeff 18/03/09
  9.   All kind of Jews, All kind of Muslims 00:50  |  FriendlyCrossovers 18/03/09
  10.   Schneier is the one who`s myopic 01:18  |  McQueen 18/03/09
  11.   Talk to Muslems? Talk yourselves blue in the face! 01:33  |  Dean Blake 18/03/09
  12.   Living in the Land of Oz. 02:18  |  flyingdoc57 18/03/09
  13.   The Vatican Doesn`t Have Any Hot Women Anyway... 02:20  |  Yosemite 18/03/09
  14.   Yes 03:18  |  Aaron 18/03/09
  15.   Follow the example of Jews and Arabs in western countries 03:32  |  Sal-Chicago 18/03/09
  16.   The Jewish-American Liberals Are Either Blind or Out of Nuts 03:57  |  massaraksh 18/03/09
  17.   What a Bunch of Fools! 04:06  |  Mordechai 18/03/09
  18.   GOOD IDEA 05:07  |  Arik Silverman 18/03/09
  19.   Dialogue W Muslims = Dialogue W Terror 07:16  |  Khaled 18/03/09
  20.   We`re not on our own 08:41  |  English resident 18/03/09
  21.   Umbrella Group 08:59  |  Angela 18/03/09
  22.   Dialogue Already Happening In UK 02:19  |  Radio Salaam Shalom 19/03/09
  23.   Jewish Muslim relations 03:53  |  JTC 19/03/09
  24.   schneier 03:04  |  hy mish 20/03/09
  25.   A growing reformation 15:10  |  Hindy 20/03/09
  26.   to 11, 12, 19 and others 21:51  |  Hisham E 23/03/09
  27.   Talk to Muslims? Judge by yourself 05:36  |  Ron 24/03/09
  28.   dialogue w/ muslims 00:18  |  arthur 09/07/09
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