sister's reflection

[HOPE]

Peace, Salaam, Shalom all,

I would like to share with you Ms Marcia Kannry's reflection.  She is the founder of The Dialogue Project located in NYC.


On Yom Kippur, I am fasting and reflecting.  I am a Jewish Jihadi.

Jihad is an Islamic process of reflection and struggle to bring thoughts, words and actions in alignment with prayer and best ethical practices.  So too as Jews we practice sleichot/asking for forgiveness and teshuva/return to good - offering compensation, asking forgiveness from the humans whom we have offended.

Our roots are interwoven as our spirituality.  I ask my Muslim brothers and sisters to forgive those Jews whose fear and ignorance only points outward, rather than inward as this day of Yom Kippur asks us to do.  To my fellow Jews- G'mar Hatima Tova.

Marcia Kannry

[Saba]

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