100 Jews and Muslims Gather for International Interfaith Conference

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100 Jews and Muslims Gather for International

Interfaith Conference

PR Newswire

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia, July 9, 2012

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia

,

July 9, 2012

/PRNewswire/ --

More than 100 young Jewish and Muslim leaders will meet for the third annual

Muslim Jewish Conference (MJC) in

Bratislava, Slovakia

from 8

th

- 15

th

of

July

2012

. Participants hail from more than 35 countries, from as far away as

Pakistan

,

Israel

, Palestine,

Libya

, and the US. MJC participants will develop

projects to tackle issues such as Islamophobia, anti-Semitism and

misconceptions about the roles of women in Judaism and Islam.

MJC participants represent a select group of students and young professionals

from an array of professional, civic and political fields. Among them include a

group of young entrepreneurs who plan to develop joint business ventures and

an artists' troupe which will collaborate on an interfaith art exhibit.

Young leaders at the MJC received a formal written greeting from former US

President Bill Clinton. "A major focus of my Presidency was the pursuit of

peaceful resolutions to ethnic and religious conflict…so it's especially wonderful

to see a new generation determined to break down the barriers of ethnicity and

religion that too often divide us," Clinton wrote.

The MJC is backed by Rabbi Andrew Baker, Organization for Security and Co-

operation in Europe Personal Representative on Combating Anti-Semitism;

Sebastian Kurz, Austrian State Secretary for Integration; Andre Azoulay, Senior

Advisor to King Mohammed VI of

Morocco

; Chief Rabbi David Rosen, long-term

Liaison to Pope Johannes Paul II; Sally Painter, former Senior Advisor to

President Clinton; Dr. Mustafa Ceric, Grand Mufti of

Bosnia-Herzegovina

; the

Ministry of Foreign Affairs Austria and

Slovakia

; the

City of Bratislava

; the

United Nations Alliance of Civilisations; the European Union of Jewish Students;

the World Union of Jewish Students; Karl Kahane Foundation; and the Stanley

and Marion Bergman Family Charitable Fund.

Muslim Jewish Conference

Ilja Sichrovsky

tel. [phone]

[e-mail]

http://www.mjconference.org