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A hundred Muslim and Jewish young leaders daring to believe something is possible that everyone says is impossible

Each year, the Muslim Jewish Conference (MJC) gathers together 100 young Jewish and Muslim leaders from more than forty countries, allowing them to talk to each other for a whole week instead of about each other. During this week they deconstruct their misperceptions about each other and work together on creating and implementing concrete and sustainable projects on the ground and in their communities. This year young leaders from Saudi Arabia, Palestine, Egypt, Morocco, Yemen, Israel, as well as…

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Meanwhile: How Tom Luke said ’never again’ By Shashi Tharoor
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Whenever I think of Auschwitz – or Birkenau, or Mauthausen, or Theresien stadt, the names that, in this season of Holocaust remembrance, are coming back to haunt us from 60 years ago – I think of a retired Australian United Nations official called Tom Luke. Tom wasn’t born Australian, and he wasn’t born Tom Luke. He was born Tomas Lowenbach in 1926 into a bourgeois Jewish family in, in what was then Czechoslovakia. When the Nazis occupied his country,…

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