ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

As this is my first published book, edited or otherwise, I feel it important to briefly mention some of the countless people who have supported me over the years, despite common protocol for a volume of this nature. My first real lessons in writing were at the hands of Elsie Wiedner, z”l , and Laura Novo, academic guidance that continued with Edwin Bryant, Ayman El- Desouky, and David Little at , and R. Stephen Humphreys, Mark Juergensmeyer, Roger Friedland, and Richard Hecht at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). In particular, I am grateful to Stephen for teaching me as much about strengthening my scholarship as how I should carry myself in the field of academia collegially; to Roger for improving my research and modeling the “coteaching” method, which has been central to this project as well as my other professional work; to Mark for taking me under his wing, giving me incredible support both during my time at UCSB and thereafter; and to my primary advisor, Richard, who gave me more support than any other academic mentor during my tenure as a graduate student, helping me secure my current position at the University of San Francisco. It says in M. Avot 1:6, “asei licha rav,” find yourself a master- teacher. For finding a rav in Richard I will forever be grateful. Between Harvard and UCSB I was also privileged enough to be supported by a number of teachers in the CASA program in Cairo, including Jehan, Shereen, Zeinab I., Nevenka, Heba, and Zeinab T. For generous financial support during my graduate studies I would like to thank Harvard University for the Frederick Sheldon Traveling Fellowship, the Center for Arabic Studies Abroad for an equally important fellowship, the Wexner Foundation for the invaluable fellowship they provided me with for four years and beyond (in particular, thank you Larry, Elka, and Cindy), the Center for Middle East Studies at UCSB for providing me with a Foreign Language Advanced Studies Summer Fellowship, the U.S. Department of Education for providing me with a Fulbright- Hays Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, and the Department of at UCSB for providing me with the J.R. Rowney Fellowship. For additional assistance during my dissertation research, I am grateful to the more than one hundred Palestinians and Israelis who allowed me to interview them; and thank you to Eliyahu McLean for connecting me to many of these individuals. I’d also like to thank Rabbi Andrew M. Sacks, who provided me with invaluable support during the four years I lived in Jerusalem. During this same time I was also lucky enough to have been given the opportunity to work with Jody Myers at California State University, Northridge, who guided me during an amorphous stage in the dissertation process. At the University of San Francisco, where I have taught since August 2007, I’d like to thank Provost Jennifer Turpin, and Deans Peter Novak, Michael Block, and Marcelo Campari for their continued support and confidence in my teaching, research, and work with Abraham’s Vision and the Center for Transformative Education. I’d also like to thank Vice Provost Gerardo Marin for supporting the many projects USF has integrated into our amazing learning environment. President Stephen Privett has also been central to my positive experiences at USF and has been a great source of inspiration and support. As for my colleagues in the Theology & Religious Studies Department, I cannot say enough about how supportive, dedicated, and compassionate these people are. Thank you to Jorge Aquino, Lilian Dube, Dan Kendall, Mark Miller, Vijaya Nagarajan, John Nelson, and Vincent Pizzuto. In particular, my grat- itude goes to Aysha Hidayatullah and Lois Lorentzen (mb), who have become very important to me. Brigid Eckhart and Kristine Massetti have also been incredibly helpful. Thanks also go to my colleagues on the USF Swig Advisory Council: Paula Birnbaum, Amie Espen- Dowling, Elliot Neamen, Rabbi Lawrence Raphael, Esti Skloot, Ruth Starkman, and Stephen Zunes (and Michael, Lois, and Peter). Further, thank you to the hundreds of students I have been privileged enough to learn with over the last few years while at USF, as well as the scores of students, staff, and faculty from universities across the country that permitted me to interview them for my essay in this book. 204 Acknowledgments

At Abraham’s Vision I, too, have had the opportunity to work with hundreds of amazing stu- dents. In addition, I have had the pleasure of working with some of the greatest talents in the con- flict transformation world. Aside from a number of important board members, current and past—in particular, Samina Ahmad, Reza Aslan, Danny Fenster, Peter Geffen (special thanks for your men- torship), Ben Korman, Judith Scheuer, Anas Shallal, and Carol Winograd—I have been supported by a number of colleagues, including Gibran Bouayad, Oren Kroll-Zeldin, Megan Martin, and Eitan Trabin. I am also grateful to Reza for supporting Abraham’s Vision from its very inception and for suggesting that proceeds from this book go to AV. Working on this project with him has been an extraordinarily positive experience. As for Huda Abu Arqoub, my professional partner and closest of friends, in you I could not have found a more dedicated, personable, intelligent, fun, compassionate, and loving individual. You are the paradigm of professionalism and model how I strive to hold myself personally. As for other important colleagues and friends, both current and those from “back in the day”— Mons, Al, Cover, Abramson, Deep, Nati, Lucas, Tifel, Eden, Fine, Gib, Gabe, Pam, Webb, Rav Sacks, Spike, Jenn D., Sab, Ari K., Akiba, Caleb, Ghousoon, Jacob B., Schuck, Tali, Marna, Fernbach, Gelb, Debbie S., Kevin E., Elyse, Yedidyah, Dorit, Avi. J., Prags, Gutty, Jeremy A., Amy, Shubbers, Jer, Lora C., Eric B., Lowin, Leesh, Rotey, El, Gregg, Matti, Jill, Nico, Dafna, Rebecca, Ron, Aaron, Rachel, Lauren, Dan G., Kaunfer, Yehuda, Ronit A., Yael, Freed, Fuchs, Pink, Scout, King, Bu, Justin, Natalie, Lital, Margaret, Toby, and Sandy—thank you. Your friendship and support continues to mean the world to me. As for D., A., O., and I., I hope that one day our better selves pick up where we left off. I am also thankful to Lee Bycel for mentorship during the last few years. In addition to the love of my immediate family—Mom, Dad, Shelly, Stone, Jacob and Jen, Lisi, Becky and Hanan, Debby and Andy, Susan and Michael, Talia, Sam, Elisheva, Nathan, Alice Paul, and Jack Raymond, as well as the Chang Gang (Judith and Karsten, David and Jan, Jan, Joey, and all of the little ones), and Naomi and Dennis, Marc and Sheila, Phyliss and Don, and all of my cousins—I would not have been able to work on this book without the support of my life partner, Laurie. My trips abroad, late-night studying, and early morning writing sessions are only some of the times I was away from my love. Thank you for giving me the support and space to work on this project. And thank you for continuing to be my best friend. Mom, thank you for being the sweet, unconditionally supportive person that you are. Dad, thank you for giving me your best, and for teaching me to strive to do as much as I can in the world for good. Jacob, thank you for being my big brother in every sense (sfg). I look forward to spending time with you, Jen, and our little ones in the years to come, and hope that Alice, J.R., Isaiah, and Delilah continue to grow up together. Shelly, Susan, and Michael, I could not ask for more than your continuing to treat me as your own flesh and blood. For those who have moved onto other realms, thank you Bubbe and Zaydeh for giving me your love, David for teaching me what it means to embrace and live life to its fullest, Grammie for teaching me more than you ever knew, Grampie for modeling the pursuit of knowledge and how to be a mentsch, and Isabel for teaching me to face life’s chal- lenges with a joke and a smile. May your memories be for a blessing. Finally, as for Isaiah Everett and Delilah Yareyach, to whom I dedicate this book, you are the lights of my life, the joys of the deepest parts of my soul, and the reason I do what I do in the world. —Aaron J. Hahn Tapper

I would like to thank the faculty at the University of California, Santa Barbara, especially my ad- visor and mentor Mark Juergensmeyer, as well as my colleagues in the Creative Writing Department at the University of California, Riverside. I would also like to acknowledge the support of the board at Abraham’s Vision, and the direction of Aaron Hahn Tapper in particular, whose dedication and hard work have led to the enormous success of the organization over the last years. Finally, I wish to thank my partner Jessica Jackley, who has shown me many things but especially this: that one cannot merely talk about changing the world; one must roll up one’s sleeves and actually do it. Finally, we would both like to thank the team from Palgrave Macmillan, including Farideh Koohi- Kamali, Robyn Curtis, Heather Faulls, and Rohini Krishnan, among others. We also want to thank Sara Hughes for compiling the book’s index. —Reza Aslan INDEX

9/11, viii, 2, 11, 40, 46, 47, 67, 72, 76, 77, American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), 93, 95, 99, 117, 121, 129, 147, 152, 95, 99 163, 165, 167, 197 American Declaration of Independence, 58 see also War on Terror American Empire, 194 American government, 26, 64, 67, 72, 77, Abdul Rauf, Imam Fiesal, 3 122, 124, 145, 151, 154, 167, 170, Abou El Fadl, Khaled, 66 196 Abraham, 18, 39, 42–3, 58, 96, 125, 149–50, American Israel Public Aff airs Committee 163, 171, 172 (AIPAC), 27, 67, 79, 109, 110, 111, daughters of, 164 112 see also Hagar; Isaac; Ishmael; Jacob; Sarah “Americanization,” 60, 61, 63 Abrahamic, 154–5, 163 American Jewish Committee (AJC), 65, 67, family, 42 68, 74, 149, 173 legacy, 150, 151 American Jewish community, see under relationship, 150 Jewish community religions, 58, 163, 165 American Jewish movements, 63 tradition, 163 American Jews, viii, 1–5, 30, 34, 42, 59, 61, “Abrahamic Ethic,” 57–8, 68 63, 64–5, 67–9, 71, 74, 75, 77, 78, Abraham’s Vision, x 80, 81, 82, 107, 110–11, 112, see also Aslan, Reza; Hahn Tapper, Aaron 118–19, 124, 129, 131, 146, 149, Adam and Eve, 162 150, 153, 154, 173, 175, 191, 192–7 see also Creation Story see also American Adelson, Sheldon, Jewish Republican American Muslim community, see under billionaire, 26–7 Muslim community Afghanistan, 67, 72, 170, 196 American Muslims, 1–5, 34, 42, 57, 59, 61, Aish HaTorah (lit. fl ame of the Torah), 63–4, 65–8, 69, 71–2, 73, 75, 77, Jewish missionary group, 23–5 78–9, 81–2, 97, 99, 101, 107, 112, Ali, Kecia, 169, 171 118–19, 122, 124, 128–9, 131, 146, alienation, 43, 75, 194 148, 149, 150, 152–4, 173, 191, Alliance schools, 134 195–6, 197, 199 Al-Marayati, Salam, executive director see also American Jews Muslim Public Aff airs Council, 4, American Republican party, 26 112 American Scholar, The, 101 Al-Qaeda, 152 Americans for Peace Now, 108, 197 Ameinu, 111 anti-Arab, 50, 51 American Academy of Religion (AAR), see also anti-Muslim; anti-orientalist; 161, 165, 166 American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Anti-Defamation League (ADL), 15, 48–9, Committee (ADC), 65 65, 80–1, 146 206 Index anti-, see anti-Muslim boundaries, 40 anti-Israel, 35, 50, 80, 150 communal, 16, 18, 181 anti-Judaism, 164 religious, 166 see also anti-Semitism Brandeis University, 97 anti-Muslim, viii, 29, 50–1, 69, 93, 130, 150, bridge-building, 12, 14, 45–7, 50–2, 118, 152 148, 151, 155, 176 see also anti-orientalist; Islamophobia Bridges TV, 3, 11–12, 17 anti-orientalist, 195 see also Hassan, Mo; Zubair, Aasiya see also anti-Muslim; Islamophobia Brit Tzedek v’Shalom, 197 anti-Semitism/anti-Semetic, viii, 11, 15–16, Brookings Institution, 154 69, 80, 93, 96, 99–100, 119, 122, Brooklyn for Peace, 50 131, 149–50, 193–6 Buddhists, 98, 198, 199 see also anti-Judaism Building Bridges: Abrahamic Perspectives on the anti-Zionist, 111 World Today, 12 apartheid wall, see separation barrier see also Bridges TV Arab American Institute, 111 Bukhari, Zahid, director of the Muslim Arab Heritage, 48 American Studies Program Arab Women Active in the Arts and the at Prince Alwaleed Bin-Talal Media (AWAAM), 48, 50 Center for Muslim-Christian Arazane, Morocco, 201–2 Understanding at Georgetown Ashkenazi Jews, 61, 75, 77, 133, 140 University, 75 see also Sephardic Jews Bulkin, Elly, 50 Aslan, Reza, founding member Abraham’s Bush, President George W., 27, 73, 154, Vision, x, 202 170 assimilation, 1, 23, 59, 60, 63–5, 96, 101, 133, 134–7, 139, 194–5 campus activism, 24, 71–3, 76–83, 93–5, 96 Awlaki, Anwar, ix see also student groups azan (call to prayer), 94 capitalism, 192, 193 Carroll, Adem, 50 Bachman, Rabbi Andy, Congregation Beth Carter, President Jimmy, 150 Elohim, 48 Center for Immigrant Families, 50 Badawi, Professor Jamal, 17–18 Center for Jewish Muslim Engagement, Baer, Leah, 136 177 Baghdad, Iraq, 147 chevrutah, 182, 187 see also Iraq Chicago’s Interfaith Youth Core, 4 Baha’i, 141, 198, 199 Children of Abraham Dialogue Project, 128 barriers, 58, 61 Children of Abraham Peace Walk, 46 of mutual suspicion, 118 Christ, Carroll, 160 Barsky, Yehudit, 74 Christian Children’s Fund, 46 Beerman, Rabbi Leonard, 146–7 Christians/, 1, 18, 21, 22, 28, 29, Ben-Aharon, Ambassador Yossi, 27 30, 39, 52, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 66, 68, Ben-Ami, Jeremy, executive director J 95, 97, 98, 100, 117–18, 121, 123, Street, 109–10, 112, 152 129, 130, 133–4, 136, 139, 141, 149, Ben-David, Lenny, former Israeli deputy 150, 155, 160, 161, 162, 163, 164, chief of mission, 27 166, 167, 168, 170, 177, 192, 197, Berbers, 201–2 198, 199 Berman, Sara, board chair Hebrew communities, 46, 47, 195 Language Academy, 52 feminists, 162, 164–6, 170 Biden, Vice President Joe, 28 right-wing, 3, 170 Bloomberg, Mayor Michael, 46, 50 society, 128, 181 Index 207

Christians United for Israel (CUFI), 28, interfaith, 33–4, 40, 96, 102, 117, 119, 29, 109 133–4, 151 Christian Zionism, see under Zionism intergroup, 4, 177 Churches for Middle East Peace, viii interreligious, 3, 10, 16, 108, 177 civil liberties, 65, 69, 98, 122, 129, 153, Jewish-Christian, see dialogue, 161 Christian-Jewish civil rights, 30, 65, 68, 194, 196 Jewish-Muslim, 33–4, 37–8, 40, 42, 107, Clarion Fund, 23–6 111–13, 147, 151, 177, 181 Clinton, President Bill, 154 Muslim-Christian, 33, 117 coalition building, 67, 69 Muslim-Jewish, see Jewish-Muslim “Code of Ethics,” 148 through text study, 177–8 Cohen, Ariel, 27 see also learning through text study Cohen, Steven M., 110 “Dialogue Project,” 45–6, 128 collective guilt, 17–18 diff erences, 34–5, 38, 41 see also collective/shared responsibility see also commonalities collective/shared responsibility, 17–18 discrimination, 65, 75, 122, 129, 133, 140, see also collective guilt 193 College Republicans, 25, 26, 73 domination, 23, 170, 191–2, 194, 196 colonialism, 195 dorehs, 141 commonalities, 35, 41 double consciousness, 161–2 see also diff erences Communities in Support of KGIA Edwards, Rabbi Lisa, 170 (CIS-KGIA), 50–1 El-Amin, Imam Makram, leader of Masjid Conference of Presidents of Major An Nur, vii American Jewish Organizations, El-Dahry, Mona, 50 146 Ellison, Congressman Keith, 129, 175 Conference of Racial Equality (CORE), Elmaleh, Raphael David, 201 196 Endowment for Middle East Truth Cordoba Initiative, 66, 67 (EMET), 26–7 coreligionists, 2, 67, 136, 155, 163 engagement, Jewish-Muslim, 37, 41, 94, Council on American-Islamic Relations 100–1, 129, 178, 179, 181–2, 183, (CAIR), 65, 74, 173 187, 201 Creation Story, 165, 167, 180, 183–4 Equal Employment Opportunity see also Adam and Eve Commission (EEOC), 51 cross fertilization, 60 Ettinger, Yoram, 27 Cruise, Tom, see A Few Good Men exclusiveness, mentality of, 133, 141, 150, 154 Dalin, David, 27 exilic mentality, 134, 142 Daly, Mary, 164 Darwish, Nonie, 22 facilitation, 35, 38, 40–2, 67, 69, 81, 107, defensiveness, 40 178, 181–3, 185 dehumanization, 108, 130 “Falling in Love with Yiddish,” 101 Dermer, Ron, 110 fatwas, 130 dhimmi, 150, 195 fear, 13, 16, 19, 21, 34–6, 37, 41, 95, 110, dialogue, 4, 30, 36–40, 42, 45, 52, 68, 69, 81, 118, 122, 137, 149, 155, 159, 167, 102, 112, 118, 121–4, 133, 147, 165, 174, 176, 192, 194 175, 178, 188, 201 fear-mongers, 14 Christian-Jewish, 33, 177 Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), 146 groups, 3 Feinberg, Rabbi Michael, 49, 50 intercommunal, 52 Feingold, Senator Russell, 152 208 Index feminism/feminists, 39, 161–71 Hadith, 180 Christian, 162, 164, 165–6, 170 see also Qur’an Jewish, 160, 165–6, 168, 171 Hagar, 42, 159, 163–5, 166, 172 Muslim, 160, 163, 165–6, 167–9, 170, 171 see also Abraham; Sarah feminist theology, 159, 162, 169 Hagee, John, 28 Fetman, Jacob, 24 Hahn Tapper, Aaron, founder and A Few Good Men, movie, 1, 9 codirector of Abraham’s Vision, x, footbaths, 4, 93–5, 99, 102 3–4, 202, 204 Foxman, Abe (Abraham), director Hamadan, Iran, 134–5 Anti-Defamation League, 15, 49, see also , Iran 146 Hamas, 29, 37, 80, 173–6 Frankel, Rabbi Benjamin, 97 hardliners, pro-Israel, 145, 147, 148, 149, freedom of religion, 128 150 “Freedom Watch,” 27 Harman, Congresswoman Jane, 152 Friends of KGIA, 47 Harris, David A., executive director fundamentalists, 40, 121, 150 American Jewish Committee, 146, funding, 4, 26, 76, 93, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100, 173 103, 149 Harris, Rabbi Henry, 24 Harvard University, 93, 95, 96 Gabriel, Brigitte, 29–30 Hasbara Fellowships, 24 Gaff ney, Frank, 27 Hashomer Hatzair North America, 111 Gaza, viii, 26, 36, 37, 48, 109, 140, 146, 150, Hassan, Mo, co-founder Bridges TV, 3, 151–2, 173–6, 178, 196 11–12 Geller, Rabbi Laura, 151 see also Bridges TV; Zubair, Aasiya generalizations, 31, 38, 40, 162 hate, 16, 21, 31 see also stereotypes hate speech, 30, 95 General Union of Palestinian Students Hathout, Dr. Maher, 147–9 (GUPS), 73 headscarf, see genocide, 18, 78, 178 Hebrew Bible, viii, 123, 166, 172, 180, 182, Gephardt, Congressman Richard, 145–6, 186 148 Hebrew Language Academy Charter Glick, Caroline, 22, 27 School (HLA), 52 global citizenship, 42, 47 Hebrew Union College, 97, 177 God, 14, 17, 28, 29, 39, 40, 42, 58, 61, 80, 96, Jewish Institute of Religion, 97 122, 123, 124, 125, 131, 132, 149, Herberg, Will, 107–8 150, 154, 155, 160, 163, 166, 168, Heritage Foundation, 26, 27 169, 171, 172, 180, 181, 192, 193 hijab, 62, 123 Goldberg, Jeff rey, 109 Hikind, Assemblyman Dov, 48 Goldstein, Baruch, 18 Hillel, 4, 25, 73, 78–81, 93–4, 97–101 Goldstone Report, 109 Hindus, 198, 199 Goodman, Matthew, author of “Falling in Hoenlin, Malcolm, leader of the Love with Yiddish,” 101 Conference of Presidents of Major Goodstein, Laurie, 145 American Jewish Organizations, Graham, Franklin, 121 146 Greater New York Labor-Religion “Hollywood Ten,” 153 Coalition, 49, 50 Holocaust, 18, 28, 110, 122, 130–1, 193 “Ground Zero,” 3 holy envy, 42 Guantanamo Bay, 9, 196 Honestreporting.com, 24, 25, 26 honor killing, 14 Ha’aretz, 25, 28 Hoover Institute, 27 Habonim Dror North America, 111 Horwitz, Carol, 50 Index 209

Hossein Nasr, Seyyed, 66 intergroup education, 81 Hughes, Robert, 49 interlocutors, 60, 61, 65 human rights, 13, 30, 52, 193, 194 inter-religious dialogue, see under Hutchens, Reverend James M., 28 dialogue Intifada, 48, 71 iconoclasm, 63 Iran, 4, 22, 67, 109, 110, 133–7, 140–2 Iden, Ron, 146 modernization of, 135, 137 identifi cation/identify/identifi ers, 10, 21, Iranian hostage crisis, 140 61, 63, 66, 71, 72, 73, 74, 77, 101, Iranian Jews, 4, 133–6, 139, 140, 142 102, 110–11, 127, 130, 131, 134, see also Iranian Muslims 136, 140, 147, 153, 193, 194, 195, Iranian Muslims, 4, 133–8, 140 199 see also Iranian Jews identity, 5, 36, 42, 55, 59, 61, 63, 66, 68, 69, , 4, 133–5, 141–2 71, 72, 73, 76, 77, 79, 82, 97–8, 99, Iraq, 22, 67, 72, 73 102, 136, 172, 183, 185 see also Baghdad, Iraq American, 57, 66 Isaac, 18, 42–3, 149, 171 American Islamic, 64 see also Abraham; Ishmael American Jewish, see Jewish identity, Ishmael/Ishmail, 42–3, 149, 163, 171 American see also Abraham; Isaac American Muslim, 59, 64, 101, 147 Islam, 2, 10, 13–15, 17–18, 22–4, 28–30, communal, 63, 72, 79 39–40, 46, 47, 58, 59, 60, 62–4, 66, ethnic, 96, 153 68, 93, 95, 96, 99–102, 108, 118, ethno-religious, 134, 140 121–3, 124, 128, 129–30, 131, 149, group, 93, 97 150, 152, 153, 154, 155, 159, 161, Islamic, 57 162, 163, 164, 165, 167, 168, 184, Jewish, 66, 78, 97, 102, 136, 140, 153 186, 192, 195, 198 Jewish American, 96, 101 see also “radical Islam” minority, 99 Islamic Center, 35, 36, 37, 39 Muslim, 98, 100, 102 Islamic Center of Southern California, 133, national, 96, 134, 140 147 personal, 178 Islamic jurisprudence, 13, 61, 66, 169 religious, 42, 61, 68, 96, 140, 180 Islamic law, 62, 63, 67, 153 ignorance, 121, 122, 131, 162–3, 165, Islamic Republic of Iran, 133 167 Islamic Shura Council of Southern immigration/immigrants, 1, 2, 46, 57, 60–1, California, 151 64–5, 66–7, 69, 94–6, 102, 128, Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), 134–5, 142, 164, 193 4, 65, 98–9, 117–19, 121, 125, American, 57, 59, 61, 63, 65, 66 127–8, 130–1, 175 Christian, 96 Islamic Terror, see under terrorism Jewish, 61, 93–4, 96 Islamic University of Minnesota, 97 Muslim, 59, 62, 63, 66, 93–6, 99, 127, 140 Islamist, 23, 47, 176 imperialism, see colonialism Islamophobia, 15, 16, 30, 119, 146, insularity, 133, 134, 135, 137, 139, 140, 141, 149–50 142 see also anti-Muslim interfaith, 33, 36, 37, 39, 46, 98, 117, 174, Israel, viii, 1, 21, 22, 23, 24–5, 26, 27–9, 30, 180, 181, 187, 197 34, 35, 36, 37, 49, 51, 67, 77, 78, 82, collaboration, 100 107–13, 124, 131, 140, 141, 146–8, dialogue, see under dialogue 150, 152–3, 173–4, 176, 183, 193–4, learning, 33, 35, 94 195, 196, 198 relations, 33, 65, 66 Ministry of Foreign Aff airs, 24, 27 Interfaith Conversations Project, 33, 35 Israeli Defense Forces (IDF), 27, 174 210 Index

Israeli-Palestinian confl ict/problem, viii, 4, Jews of Fear, 195–6, 197–8 29, 33–6, 45–6, 48, 51–2, 71–3, 75, see also Jews of Love; Muslims of Fear; 78–9, 81–2, 107, 109, 111–13, 118, Muslims of Love 140, 174, 178 Jews of Love, 191, 195–8 see also two-state solution see also Jews of Fear; Muslims of Fear; Israeli settlement, viii, 109, 111, 112, 150 Muslims of Love Israel National News, 29 John Allen Buggs Human Relations Award, Israel on Campus Coalition, 22 147 Israel-Palestine, 1, 52, 67, 149 J Steet, 4, 107–13, 152, 197 Israel Project, 109 Judaism, 2, 10, 17, 18, 23, 40, 58, 59, 60, 66, israiliyyat texts, 167–8, 170 122, 123, 149, 160, 161, 164, 167, 170, 184, 186, 192, 193, 194, 195 Jacob, 18, 149 Judeo-Christian, 68, 97 see also Abraham justice, 13, 30, 35, 37, 46, 50, 51, 53, 68, 123, Jacobs, Rabbi Steve, 149 154, 155, 168, 169 Jay Phillips Center for Interfaith Learning social, 38, 50, 51, 58, 69, 108, 193, 194, 196 of St. Thomas University, 33 Jeff erson, Thomas, 129 Kabat, Rebecca, 24 Jerusalem Connection International, 28 Kaplan, Bob, 47 Jessup, Nathan, 9–10, 12, 15, 19 Kelman, Ari Y., 110 see also A Few Good Men khalifah, 169 , 28, 149, 154 Khalil Gibran International Academy “Jesus was a Feminist,” 166 (KGIA), 3, 45, 47–52 Jewish Americans, see American Jews King, Martin Luther, Jr., 49 “Jewish anger,” 145 King Abdullah II, 110 Jewish community, 15, 18, 28, 30, 45, 49, 50, Klein, Joel, 48, 49 51, 77–8, 79, 97, 111, 112, 118, 128, Klein, Morton, leader Zionist Organization 129, 131, 139–41, 145–6, 151, 160, of America, 146 161, 194–5 knisa, 136 American, 57, 59, 61, 65, 68, 69, 75, 77, Kurtzer, Ambassador Daniel, 150 82, 97, 107, 111, 113 Iranian, 134–5, 140–2 learning through text study, 177–8 progressive, 48 see under dialogue Jewish Community Centers (JCC), Left, 110–11, 193 65–6 Levine, Alan, 51 Jewish Community Relations Council Levy, Joel, 48 (JCRC), 46, 47, 50 Likud, 26 Jewish Council on Public Aff airs, 15 Lincoln, President Abraham, 122 Jewish-Muslim dialogue, see under Lippman, Rabbi Ellen, 46, 49 dialogue Los Angeles, 133–5, 139–42, 146–8, 151–2, Jewishness, 63, 136, 140, 141 177–8 “Jewish problem,” 96 , 145, 149 Jewish settlement, see Israeli settlement love, 4, 17, 29–30, 58, 61, 117, 119, 122, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, 152 123, 136, 171, 188, 191–4, 198, 199 Jewish Terror, see under terrorism Jewish Theological Seminary, 97 ma’ariv, 182 Jewish University Online, 24 maghrib, 182 Jewish Voice for Peace, 197 marginality/marginalization, 1, 4, 73, 80, 96, Jews for Racial and Economic Justice 128, 130, 149, 154, 160, 162, 164, (JFREJ), 46, 49, 50, 51 167, 169–70, 192, 197 Index 211

Mary, 164, 171 Muslim Public Aff airs Council (MPAC), 4, Masjid An Nur, vii 65, 112, 145, 146, 147, 152, 154 Matalon, Rabbi Roly, 47, 49 Muslims of Fear, 196, 197–8 Mattson, Dr. Ingrid, president Islamic see also Jews of Fear; Jews of Love; Society of North America, 4, 99, Muslims of Love 118–19 Muslims of Love, 191, 196–8 McCain, Senator John, 21–2, 25 see also Jews of Fear; Jews of Love; McCarthy era, 153 Muslims of Fear McClure, Jim, 22 Muslim Student Association (MSA), 76, 78, media, 1, 10, 12, 25, 40, 48, 51, 65, 68, 72, 94, 98 73, 74, 79, 80, 121, 122, 123, 129, Muslim Students Union (MSU), 79, 80 130, 146, 173, 178, 192, 193, 196, Muslim Women’s Legal Defense Fund for 199 the Muslim Alliance of Indiana, 112 Megillat Esther, 134 mutuality, 165, 166, 170, 201 melting pot, 2, 107–8, 123, 199 Meretz USA, 111 najeeb, 137–9 Middle East Forum, 22, 74 narrative, 1, 9, 19, 35, 37, 39, 42, 71, 73–4, Middle East Media Research Institute 77, 82, 153, 166, 173, 182 (MEMRI), 27 biblical, 164 midrash(im), 168, 171 creation, 183 aggadic (narrative), 171 dominant, 73–5, 77–8, 82 halakhic (legal), 171 historical, 95 Mier, Peter, 26 immigrant, 59 mitzvah, 42 Israeli, 37 Mohammed Reza Shah, 133, 134, 135 national, 69 Moore, Demi, see A Few Good Men Palestinian, 37 Moore, Judge Roy, viii prophetic, 180–1 Morgenstern, Ari, 109 National Commission on Terrorism, 145 Morocco, see Arazane, Morocco National Council of Churches (NCC), 117 Moses, 149, 154, 171, 180, 181–2, 183 National Public Radio (NPR), 25 Moss, Kary, 95 neoconservative, 21, 26, 27, 47, 167 Mount Sinai, 171 Nessah Temple, 134, 135 multiculturalism, 199 Netanyahu, Benjamin, Israeli Prime Muslim American Studies Program Minister, 26, 109, 110, 150 (MASP), 75 Network of Spiritual Progressives, 197, 198 Muslim Americans, see American Muslims Nevel, Donna, 49, 50 Muslim apologetics, 166 NewGround: A Muslim-Jewish Partnership Muslim-Christian dialogue, see under for Change, 150–1, 177, 180 dialogue News & Observer, 22 Muslim community, 10, 13, 15, 37, 39, 62, New Testament, 166 64, 66, 77, 79–81, 99, 112, 127, 146, New Visions for Public Schools, 47, 49 148–9, 152, 153, 163, 196 New York City, 3, 11, 24, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, American Muslim community, 11–12, 50, 53, 64, 118, 131 14, 59, 64, 65, 68, 69, 73–4, 82, 99, New York City Department of Education 127, 128, 129 (DOE), 47 Iranian Muslim community, 134–5 New Yorker, 26 Muslim Consultative Network, 50 New York Post, 48 “Muslim-Jewish Text Study Program,” 4, New York Sun, 48 177, 178 New York Times, 21, 26, 30, 47, 145–6 Muslim Leaders of Tomorrow (MLT), 67–8 Nicholson, Jack, see A Few Good Men 212 Index

Obama, President Barack, 25, 27–9, 109, pro-Israel, 21, 22, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 72, 110, 111, 154 111, 145, 147, 148, 149, 150, 152, Senator, 21 154 “Obsession: Radical Islam’s War Against the propaganda, 22, 24, 31, 130, 152 West,” 3, 21–31 pro-Palestine, 72, 154 occupation, Israeli, 146, 150, 152, 173, 174, protectionism, 19 176, 196, 197 Purim, 134 occupied Palestinian territories, 1 Omar Ibn Al Khattab Foundation, 177 Qawwali, 62–3 O’Reilly, Bill, 80 Qur’an, viii, 39, 58, 101, 102, 121, 128, 129, Oren, Ambassador Michael, 79, 110 132, 148, 149, 154, 155, 165–71, Osama Bin Laden, ix, 29 180, 182, 183, 186, 198 “other”/“othering,” 2, 11, 13, 30, 35, 37–8, Qur’anic exegesis, 167 40–2, 60, 83, 108, 123, 135, 160, 162, 164, 165, 167, 180, 181, 185–6, racism/ist, 50, 51, 52, 193, 199 188, 191–2, 194, 195, 199 “radical Islam,” 3, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 28, 29, “otherness,” 99, 100, 102 30, 40 “other side,” 16, 174–6 Ramadan, vii, 35, 46, 101 “Our Country Deserves Better,” 28 reconciliation, 33, 41, 43 relationship-building, 33, 35, 45, 151, Pahlavi regime, 136–7 178, 181, 182, 183, 185, 186, 187, Palestinian Authority, 26 199 Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO), Religions for Peace, 117 22 religious law, 185 Palestinians, 1–2, 15, 22, 30, 35, 37, 71–2, Republican Jewish Coalition, 28 82, 109, 111–13, 124, 131, 145, Republican Party, 26, 74 148–51, 154, 164, 173, 174, 176, Robertson, Pat, 121 195–7 Rosh Hashanah, 46, 164 Paley, Rabbi Michael, 49 Ross, Gregory, spokesperson Clarion Fund, Passover Seder, 39 25 Paul, 166 peace, 3, 19, 30, 42–3, 46, 53, 68, 69, 108, sacred texts, 38–9, 178, 180, 186 109, 111, 112, 118, 124, 127, 151, see also under individual names 153, 155, 176, 193, 194, 196, 201 Sarah, 18, 42, 159, 163–4, 166, 172 peace-building, 10, 38, 176 see also Abraham; Hagar peacemaking, 41, 145, 150–2, 154 Sarmad, Said, 102 Peoples of the Book, see dhimmi Sarna, Jonathan, 107 Peres, President Shimon, 110 Schiff , Congressman Adam, 152 Pew Research Center, 64, 74 Schoenfeld, Gabriel, vii Pipes, Daniel, ix, 22, 27, 47, 74, 80 Schultz, Congresswoman Debbie pluralism, 2, 31, 38, 39, 65, 66, 111, 123, Wasserman, viii 128, 148 Scriptures, 3, 154, 166, 172, 180 Prager, Dennis, viii Sderot, 174, 175, 176 prayer, 76, 93, 94–5, 98, 108, 134, 172, 180, seam zone, see separation barrier 182, 183, 184, 201 security fence, see separation barrier prayer rooms, 4, 98 self-determination, 167 Prince Alwaleed Bin-Talal Center for self-hatred, 13 Muslim-Christian Understanding, separation barrier, 1 75 separation of church and state, 4, 93, 95, Progressive Jewish Alliance, 150 124, 128, 129 Index 213

Sephardic Jews, 61 tawhid, 150, 168 see also Ashkenazi Jews Tchen, Tina, director of the Offi ce of September 11, see 9/11 Public Engagement for the White settlement, see Israeli settlement House, 111 Shabbat, 39 Tehran, Iran, 134–6, 138, 141 Shamir, Prime Minister Yitzchak, 27 see also Hamadan, Iran shared responsibility, see collective/shared Tel Aviv, 174 responsibility Temple Emanuel, 151 shared values, 1, 10, 67, 69 Temple Israel, vii Shariah Index Project, 67 Temple Mount, 29 Sheinbaum, Stanley, 147 terrorism/terrorists, 1, 22, 25, 28–9, 37, 69, Shoebat, Walid, 22, 27, 29 80, 108, 118, 121–2, 124, 125, 129, Shore, Rabbi Ephraim, 25 130, 145–6, 149, 151, 152, 153, 173 Shore, Rabbi Raphael, 23–6, 28 Islamic, 17–18, 22, 25, 29 Sikhs, 198, 199 Jewish, 18 Silverstein, Richard, 110 text study, 177–85, 187–8 Sinai Temple, 97, 133–4, 135 “Text Study Program” (TSP), 4, 177, Six Day War, 110 178–81, 183 see also Israeli-Palestinian confl ict “Theater of the Oppressed,” 186 social justice, see under justice theologies of revelation, 34, 38 Sokatch, Daniel, 146–7 “The Third ,” 149 “Solution Rules,” 175 tikkun, 154, 199 Sontag, Susan, 174 Tikkun, 197, 198 St. Paul Interfaith Network (SPIN), 33 tokenization, 162, 170 Standing With Israel, 28 Torah, 23, 39, 102, 148, 164, 168, 170, Stand With Us, 147 171–2, 199 status quo, 15, 148, 173–4, 175 two-state solution, viii, 37, 109, 112 Status Quo Rules for Middle East see also Israeli-Palestinian confl ict Engagement, 173–4, 176 stereotypes/stereotyping, 3, 38, 40, 48, 68, understanding, 9, 12, 37, 52, 101, 102, 118, 80, 108, 122, 145, 152, 161 186 see also generalizations between Muslims and Jews, 4, 11, 19, Stern, Sarah, 26 40, 42, 51, 112, 119, 148, 154, 166, Stop the Madrassa Coalition (STM), 47, 48 180–1 student groups, 71, 72, 76, 79, 81, 82, 94, mutual, 34, 40, 69, 201 95, 99 Union for Reform Judaism (URJ), 4, 65, see also campus activism 118–19, 121, 127, 128, 131, 173 Student Non-Violent Coordinating Union of Progressive Zionists (UPZ), 111 Committee (SNCC), 196 United Federation of Teachers (UFT), 50, suicide bombing, 80, 118, 121, 130, 174 51 Sullivan, Andrew, 15 Commission on International Sultan, Wafa, 149 Religious Freedom, 148 Swidler, Leonard, 166 United States Conference of Catholic Syed, Shakeel, 151 Bishops (USCCB), 117 Unity Program, x Taglit-Birthright Israel Program, 27, 111 University of California, Berkeley, 110 , 170 University of Michigan, Dearborn, 93–5, 99 Talmud, 180 University of San Francisco, 101 Tanakh, see Hebrew Bible University of Southern California’s Center Tancredo, Tom, 121 for Religion and Civic Culture, 177 214 Index

“U.S. Jews, Muslims must look forward, not Wolf, Rabbi Alfred, 147 back,” 152 Women and Religion Section of the USA PATRIOT Act, 152 American Academy of Religion (AAR), 161 victimhood, 17, 19, 164 Women Exploring Theology, 160 violence, 11, 13, 16, 36, 46, 48, 72, 73, 82, Women’s Islamic Initiative in Spirituality 108, 113, 131, 151, 159, 161, 173, and Equality, 67 193, 194, 202 Woolsey, R. James, 27 domestic, 13 Wurmer, Meyrav, 27 in Israel-Palestine, 71, 72, 82, 140, 195, Wyschogrod, Michael, 108 196 and religion, 14, 121, 123, 124, 148, Yeshiva University, 97 178 Yom Kippur, vii, 46 Youth Bridge, 46 Wadud, Amina, 66, 168–9 Walcott, Deputy Mayor Dennis, 49 Zakaria, Rafi a, 112 Walker, Alice, 164 Zaytuna College, 97 War on Terror, 2 Zimmerman, Rabbi Marcia, Temple Israel, Washington Post, 27, 146 vii We Are All Brooklyn (WAAB), 46 Zionism/Zionist, 11, 22, 27, 36, 37, 111, Weinberg, Rabbi Noah, 23 140, 146, 152, 198 Weingarten, Randi, 51 Christian, 28, 29 Wellstone, Senator Paul, 152 movement, 193 West Bank, viii, 26, 29, 72, 109, 146, 150, Zionist Organization of America (ZOA), 151, 152, 174, 176, 195, 196 26, 27, 79, 146, 147 Western Wall, 23 Zogby, James, president of the Arab Wiesenfeld, Jeff rey S., 47 American Institute, 111 Wilshire Boulevard Temple, 147 Zubair, Aasiya, co-founder Bridges TV, 3, Wofsy, Ray, 50 11–14 Wolf, Dan, 147–8 see also Bridges TV; Hassan, Mo