Stanton came to Kosovo, a small, amoeba-shaped country with a population that is 97 percent Muslim, to attend Interfaith Kosovo, an annual gathering of religious and secular leaders from around the world. His experience there and on the streets of Peja were so overwhelming for Stanton, he has returned to Kosovo twice more.
This year, he returned to the gathering, held in the developing nation’s capital of Pristina, with 10 companions who came as the country’s guests. All are, like Stanton, young Jews from the New York-New Jersey area who are interested in interfaith relations.
Why are American Jews traveling to Kosovo, an 8-year-old nation most of them didn’t know existed before their visit, to learn how to better relate to Muslims back in the U.S.?
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