Muslims and Jews in America Commonalities, Contentions, and Complexities

This book is an exploration of contemporary Jewish-Muslim relations in the United States and the distinct ways in which these two communities interact with one another in the American context. Each essay discusses a different episode from the recent twentieth and current twenty-first century American milieu that links these two groups together.

Preface; Congressman K.Ellison Introduction; R.Aslan PART I: CASE EXAMPLES: LESSONS LEARNED? You Can't Handle the Truth...or Maybe You Can; Rabbi B.Hirschfield Who Put Hate in my Sunday Paper: Uncovering the Israeli-Republican-Evangelical Networks behind the 'Obsession' DVD; O.Safi Children of Abraham in Dialogue; Rabbi A.Eilberg The Khalil Gibran International Academy - Lessons Learned?; D.Almontaser PART II: IDENTITY FORMATION: MUSLIMS, JEWS, AND THE AMERICAN EXPERIENCE Evolving from Muslims in America to American Muslims: A Shared Trajectory with the American Jewish Community; I.F.Abdul Rauf The War of Words: Jews, Muslims, and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict on American University Campuses; A.J.Hahn Tapper   Muslims, Jews, and Religious Visibility on American College Campuses; T.Zaman J Street and Current Directions in American Muslim-Jewish Dialogue; H.Ellenson  & Rabbi D.Ellenson PART III: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES IN REACHING ACROSS THE DIVIDE Introduction to Speeches by Rabbi Eric Yoffie and Dr. Ingrid Mattson; S.Syeed Inaugural Address at the 44th Convention of the Islamic Society of North America; Rabbi E.Yoffie Address at the 69th Conference of the General Assembly of the Union for Reform Judaism; I.Mattson Integration or Separation: The Relationship between Iranian Jewish and Iranian Muslim Communities in Los Angeles; S.Soomekh Challenges and Opportunities for Muslim-Jewish Peacemaking in America; S.Al-Marayati PART IV: TOWARD THE FUTURE: NEW MODELS IN JEWISH-MUSLIM RELATIONS Beyond Sarah and Hagar: Jewish and Muslim Reflections on Feminist Theology; A.Hidayatullah & J.Plaskow Status Quo vs. Solution: A Middle East Playbook; E.Patel Sacred Text Study as Dialogue between Muslims and Jews; R.Firestone & H.Farrag American Jews and American Muslims of Love; Rabbi M.Lerner Afterword; P.A.Geffen

DR.REZA ASLAN Internationally acclaimed writer and scholar of Middle Eastern Studies, is a fellow at the University of Southern California's Centre on Public Diplomacy and Middle East Analyst for CBS News.
 
DR.AARON J. HAHN TAPPER Founder and Co-Executive Director of Abraham's Vision and an Assistant Professor in the Theology and Religious Studies Department of the University of San Francisco, USA, holding the Swig Chair of Judaic Studies, and he is also the founding Director of the Swig Program in Jewish Studies and Social Justice, the first academic program in the country formally linking these two fields.