Multi-Religious Statement - Condemning Violence Targeting a Jerusalem Yeshiva
In conjunction with His Royal Highness Prince el Hassan bin Talal of Jordan ( recent winner of the Abraham Geiger Award ) and Dr. Hans Küng , President of the Global Ethic Foundation, Switzerland, the Director of my school in Germany, Dr. Rabbi Walter Homolka ( hier auf Deutsch ), issued the following statement that I wished to pass on to all. We—Muslim, Jewish, and Christian—decry the violent attack targeting the Mercaz Harav Yeshiva in Jerusalem this week. The murder of eight students is a tragedy for all people of faith. We strongly condemn this act of violence at a Jewish religious seminary. Such aggression contributes to the vicious cycle of violence that has tormented Israel-Palestine and the region. Gaza has been under Israeli military attack for a week. Dozens of Palestinians have died on Israel’s southern border with the territory, where militants have launched Qassam rocket attacks into Israeli southern towns for more than a month. Just this week, international huma...