Abraham’ Vision
January 12, 2006
Here is an organization that deserves attention for it’s effort to build bridges between the Muslim and Jewish communities, particularly among high-school and college students: the Abraham’s Vision. I discovered Abraham’s Vision through Gibran Bouayad, one of the organization’s executive directors, who wrote me asking if I could speak to the students in a Jewish high-school about Islam. The students of this school, the Heschel High School in Manhattan, together with the students of a Muslim school, al-Iman School in Queens, are the participants of the Unity Program where all of them are engaged actively in series of meetings, discussions and lectures to instill better understanding of each other. To track their own progress, they document their reflections in the program’s blog. Their blog entries are interesting to read; the students are honest and open about their reactions to the exchange of ideas.
Anyway, I went to the Heschel school on January 10, which coincidentally was the 'Eid of Adha. It was only appropriate for me to talk to the students about the Hajj, the fifth pillar of Islam that commemorates prophet Abraham.
And here is yours truly, trying to look all scholarly.
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