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People embrace near the scene of a shooting outside the Islamic Center of San Diego Monday, May 18, 2026, in San Diego. (AP/Gregory Bull)
May 19, 2026, 6:53 am
US Jewish groups say Islamic Center shooting proves need for federal security funding
Michigan synagogue targeted in recent ramming attack says images out of California ‘all too familiar to us’; chair of state’s Legislative Jewish Caucus calls out Islamophobia
By Jackie Hajdenberg
Dr. David Hasan, the founder of The Gaza Children Village, speaks at Mediterranean Deli in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, on April 28, 2026. (Courtesy of Rabbi Daniel Greyber via JTA)
May 2, 2026, 5:30 am
US synagogue helps Palestinians raise money for Gaza, finds common ground over falafel
Daylong fundraiser results from relationships formed between rabbi, Palestinian restaurateur and Duke neurosurgeon who seek peace, reconciliation and a good bowl of hummus
By Grace Gilson
Then-State Rep. Randy Fine, at podium, and colleagues from the Florida Legislature, endorse a proclamation backing Israel in the second week of its war with Hamas, October 18, 2023. (Florida Senate/Wikmedia via JTA)
January 2, 2026, 4:49 pm
Randy Fine’s anti-Muslim comments alarm many US Jews as pro-Israel right stays the course
The Republican congressman from Florida’s statements have drawn accusations of hate speech from Jewish critics even as AIPAC, the RJC and some Jewish conservatives continue to back him
By Andrew Lapin
This handout photo taken and received from the NSW Premier's Department on December 15, 2025, shows Ahmed Al Ahmed, the man who tackled and disarmed one of the Bondi Beach terrorists, at St George Hospital in Sydney. (Handout/ NSW Premier's Department/AFP)
December 29, 2025, 8:22 am
Bondi Beach hero Ahmed al Ahmed: I just wanted to protect ‘innocent people’
Shop owner says he told assailant to drop gun, stop shooting; Australian Jews demand federal commission of inquiry into antisemitism, terror attack, but PM says it would slow things down
By Agencies
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
József Molnár's 'Abraham's Journey from Ur to Canaan,' from 1850 (Public Domain)
October 14, 2025, 11:39 am
Why the story of Abraham is being invoked in the push for Mideast peace
As the central forefather of the Jewish and Muslim faiths, the biblical figure has become the template for integrating the Jewish state into the war-scarred region
By Peter Smith
Dr. Fadi Badarna, right, a volunteer eye doctor with LeMa’anam (“for their sake” in Hebrew), a nonprofit organization providing free home healthcare to Holocaust survivors, and Aviv Paz, a LeMa'anam employee, look at the number tattoo that Chana Sandouvsky received in Auschwitz, in her home in Kiryat Bialik on April 16, 2025. (Diana Bletter/Times of Israel)
April 24, 2025, 8:11 am
In shadow of Holocaust and war, Arab doctors find shared humanity in caring for survivors
Volunteering for nonprofit LeMa’anam, Christian Yosif Boulos and Muslim Fadi Badarna provide home visits for elderly who lived through horrors decades ago and in wake of October 7
By Diana Bletter
New York Bagel Bakery in Philadelphia has served kosher-keeping customers for decades. Its longtime owner was recently accused of antisemitism, a charge he denies. (Screenshot from Google Maps via JTA)
March 21, 2025, 12:42 am
Longtime Palestinian owner of Philly kosher bagel store schmeared over Oct. 7 posts
After 27 years serving the community, Nick Sammoudi is the subject of an online petition as customers ask for his certification to be revoked amid claims he’s leading a double life
By Ben Sales
Screen capture from video of the short film 'Sevap/Mitzvah' (A Good Deed). (YouTube. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
September 26, 2024, 3:27 pm
Sarajevo film premiere spotlights rare Muslim-Jewish harmony
‘Sevap/Mitzvah’ tells true story of Muslim woman who hid a Jewish family in WWII Nazi-occupied Sarajevo and was then saved by a Jewish family from besieged Bosnian capital in 1990s
By Reuters and ToI Staff
A member of the Jahalin tribe receives food aid from Israeli activists in early 2024, in the Judean Desert. (Courtesy of Rabbis for Human Rights)
March 21, 2024, 1:55 am
Praying for peace, optimistic Israeli activists deliver Ramadan food aid to West Bank
Volunteers with organizations such as Rabbis for Human Rights brave the ire of fellow Jews as they reach out to help Palestinians in need amid the ongoing war in Gaza
By Eliyahu Freedman
Dr. Federica Gigante of Cambridge University with a medieval Islamic astrolabe dating from the 11th century which has Hebrew additions, in an undated picture. (Federica Candelato/courtesy)
March 8, 2024, 9:35 am
Medieval Islamic astrolabe found to have layers of Hebrew inscriptions
Device found in Italy and dated to 11th-century Spain seems to have Jewish addendums exactly as recommended by medieval sage Abraham Ibn Ezra
By Gavriel Fiske
From left to right: Kivunim flatmates Elad Kornhauser, Maya Ronen, Aya Jaber, and Maysoon Samaka. (Courtesy)
December 23, 2023, 1:56 pm
At group home in Nahariya, bond between Muslim and Jewish young adults survives Oct. 7
Aya Jaber, 22, feared being ostracized after the Hamas atrocities, but connection with her friends and flatmates in northern Israel, who also have disabilities, is unbroken by war
By Diana Bletter
Members of the MuJu & Co. pass under the infamous 'Work Will Make You Free' sign at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial Museum in Poland on October 1, 2022. (Courtesy of Dan Meyrowitsch)
November 9, 2022, 12:42 pm
From Auschwitz to Iftar: Danish Muslim-Jewish biker club revs up interfaith dialogue
Uniting over a common love of motorcycles, members of MuJu & Co. hit the road to fight bigotry, including guarding over a Jewish cemetery in Copenhagen every Kristallnacht
By Melanie Lidman
Far-right activist and Lehava member Or Liebler. (Screenshot/Twitter via Channel 13)
February 21, 2022, 8:43 pm
Far-right Jewish extremist discovers her biological parents are Muslim
Or Leibler, a member of a Jewish supremacist group who describes herself as a ‘proud Jew,’ forced to reevaluate beliefs after making unexpected discovery
By Tobias Siegal
Dr Noor ul Owase Jeelani (courtesy of Noor ul Owase Jeelani)
September 12, 2021, 11:29 pm
UK Muslim doctor delights in helping separate Jewish Israeli conjoined twins
Kashmir-born Dr. Noor Ul Owase Jeelani, a world authority on conjoined twins, says he worked for months with Israeli team: ‘All children are the same, whatever color or religion’
By Nathan Jeffay
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