1/7/2009 - Interfaith Program Brings Muslims and Jews Together
by Jody Axinn
Muslims and Jews prayed together as part of an educational program at Congregation Beth El’s religious school in Bethesda, MD on January 6th & 7th. The school’s director, Louis Nagel, invited local exchange students, Dina Mahmod from Egypt and Tony Nugroho from Indonesia to present the Muslim version of each of the five Jewish prayers during the weekly service. As they went back and forth, Jewish to Muslim to Jewish praying, each were learning about the other’s religion. “If everyone took part in something like this, they would see how similar the two religions are and there would be less war.” Tony said after the program.
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