When, as a rabbi, I speak of my "Muslim friends," most people take it to be a turn of phrase. Some even assume that it will be followed by a laugh or words of denigration about our fellow Abrahamic tradition.
What a shame that events in the world have brought us to such a point socially, even in the relatively copacetic religious landscape of the United States. Even as global upheaval continues to shake our communities and the relations between them, I feel personally strengthened in my Jewish faith by colleagues and true friends who are Muslims.
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