Focus Article: Enemies no more: the power of sustained dialogue by Saliba Sarsar West Long Branch, New Jersey – A Muslim American woman, standing next to her new American Zionist friend, lit a candle on 20 April – the day…

Focus Article: King Abdullah II to the United States: No time to lose in pursuit of a two-state solution by His Majesty King Abdullah II My Friends, Today I want to talk about the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, which has almost defined…

Focus Article: Islam Challenges Our Ability to Make Distinctions by Kersten Knipp The American political scientist Samuel Huntington passed away in December 2008. Did his now famous phrase, the “Clash of Civilizations”, go to the grave with him? The German…

Focus Article: Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood and Iran: Rapprochement between Sunnis and Shiites? Against the backdrop of recent tension between the Egyptian government and Hezbollah, Mehdi Khalaji, a senior fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, assesses the complex…

Focus Article: Religious Tribalism: A Major Obstacle to Peace through Justice by Dr. Robert D. Crane The moral philosopher, Norman Kurland, a self-described ecumenical Jew, is struck by the obvious fact that everyone, even a baby, knows what injustice is…

Focus Article: A Real Interfaith Challenge by Rabbi Marc Schneier New York, New York – With the deserved uproar now fading over Pope Benedict lifting the excommunication of a Holocaust-denying bishop, the Vatican and the Jewish community are seemingly back…

Focus Article: Jihad Against The Abuse Of Jihad by Abukar Arman In light of the rampant extremism and militarism around the world, nothing proves more dangerous than the manipulative alteration of truth to reach certain political ends. In the final…

Focus Article: An Appreciation of Islam: Q&A with Rabbi Reuven Firestone by Brad A. Greenberg Reuven Firestone is both rabbi and renowned Islamic scholar. A professor of medieval Jewish and Islamic studies at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion and…

Focus Article: Perception Management: Source of the Eternal Conflict between Good and Evil by Dr. Robert D. Crane The foreign and domestic policy crises of the current Administration may be blamed someday on Barack Obama if he does not solve…