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A Jewish-Muslim art show builds ‘little bridges’ of coexistence

JL;DR SUMMARY Fostering interfaith understanding, Jewish artist Hannah Finkelshteyn and Muslim filmmaker Aakef Khan co-curated "Open Archways: by the light of the same moon," an art exhibition featuring Jewish and Muslim artists at the Bowery Art Collective in Metuchen, NJ. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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FriendshipHillelRutgers UniversityCultural UnderstandingJewish Muslim RelationsInterfaithCommunity DialogueArt ExhibitionsGrassroots InitiativeCo Curation

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Metuchen, New Jersey, United States
"The result is Open Archways: by the light of the same moon, opening Thursday at the Bowery Art Collective in Metuchen, New Jersey."
East Brunswick, New Jersey, United States
"Finkelshteyn, 23, was born in Brooklyn and raised in East Brunswick, New Jersey, in the Modern Orthodox community, attending Jewish schools up until college."
South Brunswick, New Jersey, United States
"Raised in a religious Muslim family of Pakistani descent, Khan, 22, went to public school during the week and to Saturday school at the mosque in South Brunswick, New Jersey, where he grew up."
New York City, New York, United States
"She told me at a coffee shop in Manhattan. She and Khan took the train into the city together when we met before Thanksgiving."
Israel
"She even dropped a small group course in part because of what she saw her peers saying online. I cant be sitting here being terrified for my family while this person whos sitting across from me thinks Oct. 7 was a good thing, Finkelshteyn said."
Beirut, Lebanon
"Khalid Khashoggi has always had Jewish friends, he said. He was born in Beirut in 1965, but hasnt returned to Lebanon since he was 10, when the civil war broke out and his family left for Europe."
Turkey
"Ali Saracoglu, 30, a New York Citybased Muslim artist who moved to the U.S. from Turkey, put it most poetically."

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