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Shalom, Salaam, Peace

Abrahamic Alliance International is a faith-based, non-profit organization uniting Jews, Christians, and Muslims for active peacebuilding and relief of extreme poverty. Our mission is to unite Jews, Christians, and Muslims everywhere to cooperate and collaborate in building peace through:
  • Teaching seminars to build mutual respect and better understanding of each other's faith and culture.
  • Helping the poor, suffering and marginalized through local community service.
  • Mentoring peacemakers according to the sacred Scriptures of our respective faith communities.
  • Relieving extreme poverty internationally through generosity, educational empowerment, and compassionate service.

The life of a heart: Muslims and Jews saving lives together

by MENHAZ M. AFRIDI, CG News — 14 February 2012
NEW YORK — As I listen to sound bites of news, a swarm of words sting me: Iran, Israel, nuclear, Palestine-Israel at a standstill, Muslims kill Jews, and Jews kill Muslims. As a Muslim woman who teaches classes about the Holocaust at a Catholic college, I am constantly frustrated by the media coverage of the Middle East which overwhelmingly serves to highlight and entrench national and religious tensions, prejudice and conflict. A recently-aired documentary by

Reaching out to save lives

by NATHAN JEFFAY, Jewish Daily Forward — 12 February 2012

Reaching Out: ZAKA rescuers are a familiar sight at crime scenes in Israel and the West Bank. Now, the ultra-Orthodox group is reaching out to Palestinians in hopes of saving lives.ZICHRON YAAKOV, ISRAEL — The image of Israel’s Haredim has taken a public battering over the past few months, particularly over the issue of discriminatory conduct toward women, which even a few Haredi groups have disavowed. But in an unusual act of outreach, some of these ultra-Orthodox Jews have recently found an original way of engaging with people outside their own closed religious world:

Crossing boundaries on a train from Tel Aviv to Be'er Sheva

by ARIEL KATZ, Common Ground News Service — 31 January 2012

jewish-and-arab-boysBRIGHTON, U.K. — I am on the train, travelling south from Tel Aviv to Be’er Sheva. Three Bedouin women dressed in hijab (headscarves) enter the train ahead of me and my daughter, each with a toddler. They see there are no seats together, so they opt to sit on the floor, near the doors. I find seats for myself and my daughter. Across the aisle from us sits a man with a kipah, a cap worn by Orthodox Jewish men. A Bedouin woman in hijab and her toddler sit facing him. The toddler is cranky; she is tired of sitting on mother's lap. She wants to explore. Her mother holds her firmly as she squirms and whines, trying to pacify her. Because she is using simple Arabic language for

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