I Believe Faith Is Not

People Are Feeling And Sensing A Return Of Anti-semitism - Even In Europe, Which, Seventy Years After The Holocaust, Is A Very Scary Thing. I Think They Are Feeling That Israel Is Very Isolated And Doesn't Always Get What They See As Fair Treatment In The European Media.

Sometimes The Sight Of Someone In One Faith Wrestling With That Faith Can Empower You To Wrestle With Another Faith. For Me, It Was Reading About How The Catholic Church Wrestled With Itself In The 1960s. Pope John Xxiii Set Nostra Aetate - The Declaration On The Relation Of The Church With Non-christian Religions - In Motion. It Changed The Relationship Between Jews And Catholics. Today, Jews And Catholics Meet As Friends. If You Can Do That, After The Longest History Of Hatred The World Has Known, That Empowers You As A Jew Or A Muslim To Wrestle With Your Faith.

Islamophobia Is A Complex Phenomenon.

Hope, Even More Than Necessity, Is The Mother Of Invention.

Frequent Worshippers Are Also Significantly More Active Citizens. They Are More Likely To Belong To Community Organizations, Especially Those Concerned With Young People, Health, Arts And Leisure, Neighborhood And Civic Groups And Professional Associations.