May the New Year 2021 bring you peace, happiness, good health, and prosperity in all your endeavors.
Thanks to your commitment and support, the Aladdin Project is entering the New Year with resilience and determination to continue its mission. We cherish the hope that all these efforts will contribute to a world less tormented, more peaceful, and more caring than the one we lived though the past year.
The Aladdin Project
"Jews and Muslims in Egypt: from its origins to the present"
Project Aladdin is pleased to announce that the sixth book of our Shared History books series in Partnership with the French publishing house Editions Tallandier is out.
Mobilizing Youth to counter the explosion of online hate during the pandemic of Covid-19
Faced with the unprecedented situation caused by Covid-19, the Aladdin Project is mobilizing its network of 500 young anti-racist activists (alumni of our summer universities and delegates who participated in our Youth European Forum) in more than 40 countries to confront the explosion of online hate.
The Aladdin Project at the World Holocaust Forum in Yad Vashem
The Aladdin Project’s Chair, Leah Pisar, and Executive Director, Abe Radkin took part in the World Holocaust Forum held on Thursday 23, January 2020 by Yad Vashem in Jerusalem to mark the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.
What to do in the face of extremism and populism? Two eminent politicians discuss
On December 3rd, 2019, the friends of the Aladin Project gathered around the former French Prime Minister, Bernard Cazeneuve and Antony Blinken, former United States Deputy Secretary of State during the Obama presidency for a debate on the threat of populism looming over democracies.
How to Make Schools More Effective Barriers to Extremism, Racism and Antisemitism?
Ministers of Education from 10 countries in Europe, Africa and the Middle-East discussed the best strategies with French and international stakeholders.
Jews and Muslims in Yemen
We are very happy to announce the publication of the fifth book of our series “Shared History”. Based on Jewish, Arab and European sources, the book explores Yemenite Jews’ special place in the Islamic world and traces their long history in Yemen.
International Summer University for Intercultural Leadership 2019
60 students from our network of over 60 international universities gathered in 2019 in Istanbul, Turkey from July 15 – 27 to study the intersection of cultural identity, history, politics, integration, migration, religion and human rights..jpg)
Young Europeans’ Forum: 100 Delegates from 24 Nations Seek Answers to Europe’s Crisis of Social Cohesion
Bertelsmann Foundation’s Liz Mohn and Project Aladdin’s Eric de Rothschild kicked off the 2019 edition of Young Europeans’ Forum in Berlin on June 25. Aladdin President Leah Pisar keynoted the opening session of Young Europeans’ Forum..jpg)
News
Ramadan Mubarak
The Aladdin Project extends its best wishes to Muslims on the occasion of the holy month of Ramadan.
Symbol of rebirth and renewal, this festival announces the new year and the arrival of Spring. Celebrated mainly in Iran, Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, India, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Pakistan, Turkey and Uzbekistan, Nowruz is a three milennia ancestral festival. In 2010, the UN General Assembly unanimously adopted a resolution recognizing March 21 as "International Nowruz Day". We extend our best wishes to all those celebrating Nowruz, and especially to the Iranians.
Antony Blinken was sworn in as the new Secretary of State of the United States by Vice-President Kamala Harris, following his confirmation by the Senate. On his first full day in office, the new chief of American diplomacy sent a message to mark the International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Antony Blinken has reiterated the importance of the experience of his late stepfather, Samuel Pisar, a survivor of Auschwitz and other Nazi death camps, on his own view of the world and how the lessons of history should guide decision makers. Blinken has been a longtime supporter of the Aladdin Project and our efforts to build intercultural rapprochement and dialogue based on the lessons of the Holocaust. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2PRBwh1cfg
Opinion Column
Passover and Easter: similarities and differences By Meir Waintrater, coordinator of the project " Know the religion of thy neighbors"
