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Rabbi Ralph Genende, left, at an solidarity event following the Bondi Beach terror attack, in Melbourne, December 2025. (Courtesy)
'The Jewish-Muslim dynamic is not in a really good space'
Australian Jews and Muslims still hang hopes on fragile dialogue after Bondi attack
By Nomi Kaltmann
Leaders say relations between communities at all-time low as antisemitism spike since Oct. 7 raises concern hatred is being normalized. A tenacious few refuse to let interfaith talks die
Fiyaz Mughal founder of Muslims Against Antisemitism. (Courtesy)
July 19, 2026, 6:10 am
UK founder of Muslims Against Antisemitism challenges coreligionists to fight rising hate
Many British Muslim leaders privately denounce the Jew-hatred permeating the country and some of its institutions. Fiyaz Mughal is asking them to speak up before it’s too late
By Robert Philpot
Coexistence activists led by Jewish, Muslim, Christian, and Druze religious leaders march in Jerusalem for 'human rights and peace,' on May 18, 2026. (Jacob Lazarus/ Rabbis for Human Rights)
May 18, 2026, 11:31 pm
Hundreds join interfaith ‘human rights and peace’ march in Jerusalem
Marchers carry signs reading ‘Justice,’ ‘Peace’ and ‘Soul’ in Hebrew, Arabic, and English in counter to nationalist Flag Marches on Jerusalem Day
By Charlie Summers
Students and parents at the Upper East Side's Town School celebrate the school's third annual Shabbat. (Pierangelo Rossi via JTA)
January 30, 2026, 5:31 am
Oct. 7 spurred this NYC secular private school to start holding an annual Shabbat gathering
After the Hamas atrocities and the wave of antisemitism that followed, Jewish students at the Town School sought an affinity group of their own – and have been met with enthusiasm
By Jackie Hajdenberg
Nora Bussigny in Paris, August 28, 2023.(Samuel Kirszenbaum/ Courtesy Éditions Albin Michel)
January 17, 2026, 7:25 pm
An undercover reporter joined France’s anti-Israel movement. Here’s what she found
In her explosive book ‘Les Nouveaux Antisemites,’ journalist Nora Bussigny reveals pervasive hatred of Jews and Israel on the radical left and worries for country’s future
By Robert Sarner
Activist Raheel Raza in an undated photo. (Courtesy)
December 9, 2025, 8:39 pm
‘Eternal optimist’ Pakistani-Canadian Muslim woman is one of Israel’s fiercest advocates
Human rights activist Raheel Raza seeks to ‘defang’ the extremist elements of her faith that drive antisemitism – and has been to the Jewish state over a dozen times in the process
By Sharon Aschaiek
Detroit Archbishop Edward Weisenburger tours the Zekelman Holocaust Center in Farmington Hills, Michigan, August 18, 2025. Weisenburger has vocally advocated for citizens in Gaza amid Israel’s ongoing war in the region. (Andrew Lapin/JTA)
August 23, 2025, 3:56 am
Amid Gaza war, Detroit archbishop’s Holocaust center tour yields mixed messages
Next to display on rabid WWII-era antisemite Father Charles Coughlin, newly appointed Edward Weisenburger speaks out on humanitarian crisis in Palestinian enclave during interfaith visit
By Andrew Lapin
Rabbi Rick Jacobs, president of the Union of Reform Judaism, stands second from right on the dais as a morning prayer begins at the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Churchwide Assembly in Phoenix, Arizona, July 31, 2025. (Courtesy Rick Jacobs)
August 8, 2025, 2:00 am
After Lutherans pass ‘one-sided’ Israel resolution, US rabbi’s plea for unity prevails
Union for Reform Judaism president Rick Jacobs has decades of interfaith work under his belt, so when a church convention voiced a narrow view of the Gaza conflict, he was prepared
By Grace Gilson
Two shoppers select items at a grocery store in the "Tehrangeles" neighborhood of Los Angeles, June 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
July 5, 2025, 8:31 pm
End of Israel-Iran war tests the harmony of LA’s huge, mixed-faith Iranian community
Fallout of the 12-day war has come to ‘Tehrangeles,’ the largest Iranian diaspora community in the world; ‘It’s been an emotional roller coaster,’ says one local
By DEEPA BHARATH
Rabbi Asher Lopatin (left) visits the Tomb of Nahum in the town of Alqosh in Iraqi Kurdistan in April 2025. (Courtesy)
July 1, 2025, 1:46 am
In Iraq, restored tomb of biblical prophet Nahum quietly attracts Jewish pilgrimage
Despite geopolitical tensions, dozens of Jews, including Israelis, have journeyed to shrine in Kurdish city of Alqosh since its rehabilitation in 2022, says project organizer
By Rossella Tercatin
Michael Black of Belfast Hebrew Congregation shows off the synagogue's memorial wall in April 2025. (Rosario Del Valle/ JTA)
June 1, 2025, 4:54 am
Northern Ireland’s lone synagogue staves off decline by engaging Christian neighbors
Challenged by rising antisemitism fueled by the war in Gaza, an aging population, and the departure of a spiritual leader, the congregation is reaching outward to bolster numbers
By Rosario Del Valle
Pope Francis meets with a delegation from the American Jewish Committee at the Vatican on International Women's Day, March 8, 2019. (Vatican Media)
December 22, 2024, 9:02 pm
As relations ebb, rabbi and bishop launch guide to educate Catholics on antisemitism
Despite comments on the war by Pope Francis that rub many Jews the wrong way, Rabbi Noam Marans and Bishop Joseph Bambera have faith that dialogue can help overcome the hitch
By Ben Sales
Rev. John Bettin, head pastor at the National Shrine of the Little Flower Catholic parish, prepares to mount a revised version of the church's history of its antisemitic founder Father Charles Coughlin, Royal Oak, Michigan, Novemver 7, 2023. The new version includes a QR code for visitors to learn more about Coughlin's antisemitism. (Courtesy of Levi Smith via JTA)
June 27, 2024, 2:10 am
Father Coughlin’s Detroit-area church will now teach visitors about his antisemitism
Local Jews praise Catholic parish seat for updating its history of the popular national radio host who distributed ‘Protocols’ and suggested Jews deserved Nazi persecution
By Andrew Lapin
Religious leaders head an interfaith march in support of peace and human rights down Jaffa Street in Jerusalem on June 3, 2024. (Jacob Lazarus/Rabbis for Human Rights)
June 4, 2024, 8:13 am
Interfaith ‘march for peace’ held in capital, in counter to Jerusalem Day Flag March
Decrying use of religious rhetoric to promote war, liberal Jewish, Muslim, Christian and Druze religious leaders say event sends message of ‘peace, justice and equality’
By Charlie Summers
Interfaith leaders issued joint declaration against Islamophobia and antisemitism at summit held by 'Shoulder to Shoulder' in Washington, DC, December 20, 2023. (Courtesy)
December 21, 2023, 9:39 pm
Islamophobia and antisemitism condemned by dozens of US interfaith leaders in DC
Interfaith leaders convene at National Press Club to sign declaration against antisemitism and Islamophobia; prominent Rev. blames ‘Christian nationalism’ for surge of racism
By Matt Lebovic
File: Activists work together at a joint Arab-Jewish operations center in Rahat to assist Israelis affected by the war, October 2023 (Social media)
November 11, 2023, 8:59 pm
Amid war, poll finds Arab Israelis’ sense of kinship with state at a 20-year high
70% of Arabs, 94% of Jews say they feel a part of the country and its problems; but views on future diverge, with 72% of Jews and only 27% of Arabs optimistic
By ToI Staff
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