Jews, Muslims Break Bread at Ann Arbor Home.

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Jews, Muslims break bread at Ann Arbor home

By John Mulcahy

The Ann Arbor News October 05, 2007 21:29PM Sometimes it takes a coincidence to spark a good idea.That's why a group of Jews and Muslims gathered Friday evening at the Ann Arbor home of Aaron and Aura Ahuvia to pray, break bread and learn about what their faiths have in common.The coincidence was the starting dates this year of one of the holiest days of the Jewish calendar, Rosh Hashanah (or the Jewish New Year), and Ramadan, the Muslim holy month of fasting and spiritual reflection. Ramadan started on Sept. 13. The celebration of Rosh Hashanah started on Sept. 12, followed by Yom Kippur Sept. 22."We wanted to jointly have something together since it's the peak spiritual season for both our faiths," said Dawud Walid of Detroit, executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations in Michigan, who attended the gathering.A similar gathering took place last year, he said.Both groups offered prayers Friday, and Muslims at the gathering broke the fast they had been keeping since before sunrise."I think I want to be where people are making a bridge between different communities," said Odile Hugonot-Haber of Ann Arbor, another participant at the gathering. "We have more in common than we have apart."Tammam Alwan, a Michigan State University student who grew up in West Bloomfield, said getting together to discuss the similarities between the two religions would, "further understanding between two very important faiths in (America)."While political conflict between Jews and Muslims in the Mideast may be a backdrop to Jewish-Muslim relations in this country, the focus Friday was on the spiritual commonalties. In particular, the group planned to focus on the story of Moses and the Jewish captivity in Egypt, Walid said."Moses is the most mentioned prophet in the Koran," he said.The emphasis also was on just getting to know one another."It think it's an excellent opportunity to sit down and break bread with people I don't ordinarily break bread with," Aura Ahuvia said.

Blogger Comment:

1- First time when I came to America in 1990 as a peace Scholar in Endocrinology to the university of Vermont. I was invited by Dr. David Robbins, a great guy, in my first days in America I was still have some suspicion of the Jews. You get from the Arab media the wrong stereotype. Then I learnt quickly the Jews are great people rarely you find someone who is prejudice. They are the most to advance the case of humanity and stand for the underprivileged.
2- I am not saying that so the Jews vote for me as a pro-messiah. When God will send the two messiah Al Mahdi and Jesus (PBUH) there will be strong evidences of them. It will be clear to the people than my words.

3- We need to break more than bread with the Jews. We have to correct to some Christian rights the prophecies of end of time. They think that the animosity is a perquisite for Jesus second coming. A lot of prophecies of Muslims and Christians in the Internet are bogus. God only knows the future but we have to adapt the best reasonable and just approach to our problems.

4- Jews and Muslims can continue to work separate or synergistic to find a better world to all of us.

5- Jews in America as well Muslims and Arabs in America can encourage the Israeli and Palestinians to adapt serious peace talks.