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Children of Abraham is a charity devoted to the shared study and promotion of understanding and respect for religious differences between Jewish and Muslim people, for public benefit. We aim to do this by encouraging Jewish and Muslim clergy, scholars and lay people to meet together to study their sacred scriptures, the Jewish Tanakh, the Holy Quran, and rabbinical and Islamic traditional texts. We aim thereby to encourage the shared building of ideas and reconciliation between these great faiths, and the challenging of all forms of intolerance and discrimination, for the benefit of the public.
Children of Abraham is proud to welcome you to its inaugural event, a shared study of the sacred texts of the Holy Bible and the Holy Quran on the theme of "Abraham". This event will be hosted by the acclaimed TV news journalist Rageh Omaar and filmed for television.
What role does Abraham have as a bridge and point of reconciliation between the Abrahamic faiths? Does he raise points of harmony or of disagreement between Abrahamic believers? You are warmly invited to attend this shared reading of sacred texts and participate in the discussion facilitated by Rageh.
Rabbis, imams and academics are encouraged for television purposes to come in appropriate clerical or academic dress. The event is open and free of charge. Please write to enquiries @ childrenofabraham.org.uk to confirm attendance.
Children of Abraham in collaboration with Scriptural Reasoning welcomes you to a special event for National Inter Faith Week sponsored by the Department of Communities and Local Government and the Inter Faith Network.
In this event at the London Central Mosque, we will be undertaking a shared text study of Jewish and Islamic texts on the theme of "The Children of Abraham", and relationships between the Jewish and Muslim communities. The shared Jewish-Muslim study will be led by Rabbi Mark Solomon, Interfaith Consultant for Liberal Judaism, and Imam Shahid Hussain, Interfaith Officer of the Islamic Cultural Centre. Thereafter, Rabbi Jackie Tabick, Chair of the World Congress of Faiths and Sheikh Dr Muhammad Al-Hussaini, Fellow in Islamic Studies at Leo Baeck Rabbinical College will reflect on their experience of the Mission of European Imams and Rabbis to the United States
Scriptural Reasoning is the shared reading of the sacred texts of the Abrahamic faiths, in order to understand and develop respect for religious commonalities and differences, with a view to tikkun olam - the repair of the world.
This event is open to all members of the public free of charge, and will be followed by kosher and halal refreshments. Please write to enquiries @ childrenofabraham.org.uk to confirm attendance.
Children of Abraham and Hampstead Mosque welcomes Rabbis and Imams, and women and men who are academics in Islamic or Jewish Studies to its first annual Kosher-Halal Christmas dinner in solidarity with our Christian friends.
There are two dietary options: 1) Either, a kosher-halal home-cooked meal under joint Jewish-Muslim supervision, with disposable tableware (fish with vegetarian option) 2) Or, a sealed kosher meal (parev). Please write to enquiries @ childrenofabraham.org.uk by 9 December at latest to confirm attendance.
The Board of Trustees of Children of Abraham and the Board of the Foundation for Ethnic Understanding is honoured to present a major international Jewish-Muslim conference for imams, rabbis and academics at the University of Oxford.
This Jewish-Muslim initiative follows from the highly successful engagement of the Mission of European Imams and Rabbis to the United States sponsored by the Foundation for Ethnic Understanding. The conference will present keynote academic papers, shared study of sacred scriptures and interactive workshops around the four strands of Islamophobia/Anti-Semitism-Judaeophobia, Immigration, Poverty and the Environment.
We warmly welcome any advice and financial sponsorship you might be able to offer to this extremely important initiative. Please contact us by e-mail on enquiries @ childrenofabraham.org.uk for further information.
For information on the Jewish-Muslim academic programme at Leo Baeck College of study of Islamic sacred texts and Jewish-Muslim relations, in which Children of Abraham is collaborating organisation, please visit Scriptures in Dialogue.
Children of Abraham
The Montagu Centre
21 Maple Street
London W1T 4BE
United Kingdom
Telephone: 44 20 7433 0838
Fax: 44 20 7147 1383
E-mail: enquiries @ childrenofabraham.org.uk
The Foundation for Ethnic Understanding
The Scriptural Reasoning Society