Day of Service Bridges Muslim-Jewish Understanding

Emory's Children of Abraham group, organized jointly by Hillel and Muslim Student Association student leaders meets regularly through dialogue, shared values and social action projects.

Emory junior Jessica Ginsberg, who co-chairs Children of Abraham, helped organize projects to mark the "Weekend of Twinning" - a national intitative to foster positive relationships between Muslims and Jews - on the weekend before Thanksgiving. The group joined together to engage in a service project to feed roughly 100 Clarkston refugees hot meals.

The group also toured an Atlanta mosque and The Temple, a Reform synagogue, where they viewed an independent documentary film by Emory alumnus, David Micley. The film, Cousins of Faith, is an ethnographic documentary following an observant Muslim and an observant Jew living in Atlanta. David, who helped foundChildren of Abraham at Emory, flew in from Boston to lead a discussion following the film screening.