(RNS) Bob Silverman, a Jew who spent most of his diplomatic career in Muslim-majority nations, will now reach out to Muslims in his own country. The American Jewish Committee recently hired him as its first U.S. director of Muslim-Jewish relations.

Source: Meet Jewish America’s first ambassador to Muslims | Religion News Service

Interfaith marriage is on the rise, putting parents in a tough spot to choose one religion to pass to their kids. Rami Ayyub reports on a Maryland Sunday school that says it's possible to have both.

Source: With Interfaith Sunday Schools, Parents Don't Have To Choose One Religion : NPR

Pope Francis took a large step in healing relations between the Vatican and the highest Islamic authority in Egypt on Monday. The pontiff met with Ahmed al-Tayeb, the grand imam of Al-Azhar, in an attempt to reopen the lines of communication that have been down since 2011, reports The Huffington Post.

Source: Pope Francis Meets With Sunni Muslim Leader - World Religion News

Elizabethtown College, an unassuming dot on the intellectual landscape, has become the nation’s beta tester in the emerging field of interfaith studies.

Source: A Laboratory for Interfaith Studies in Pennsylvania Dutch Country

“Stereotypes lose their power because they’re replaced by true, authentic relationships,” says Rev. Josh Graves, pastor of the Nashville megachurch Otter Creek Church of Christ, describing his project of engagement between Christians and Muslims. “It’s very hard for people to care about people they don’t know. That’s just true of humans wherever you are on planet earth.” More →

Source: Christians Countering Anti-Muslim Rhetoric | April 29, 2016 |...

Guru Nanak Interfaith Prize For Serve2Unite, Harvard Pluralism Project

Source: Guru Nanak Interfaith Prize For Serve2Unite, Harvard Pluralism Project

Earlier this month, it emerged that Wheaton College had begun the process of firing Larycia Hawkins, a tenured associate professor of political science at the evangelical Christian school. Hawkins was suspended last month after she decided to wear a headscarf during the Advent season to show solidarity with Muslims during a difficult period.

(RNS) What Hawkins really violated were the implicit but very real political preferences of Wheaton’s constituency, not the school’s explicit theological standards.

Source: What the Larycia Hawkins case means for evangelical colleges (COMMENTARY) - Religion News Service

Source: Muslim woman gets kicked out of Trump rally -- for protesting silently | The Salt Lake Tribune

Watch additional video clips of Kim Lawton’s interview with Rabbi Noam Marans of American Jewish Committee about the legacy of Nostra Aetate.

Source: Rabbi Noam Marans on Nostra Aetate | October 20, 2015 | Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly | PBS

Watch additional video clips of our interview with Rev. Dennis McManus of Georgetown University about the relationship of Catholics and Jews after Nostra Aetate.

Source: Rev. Dennis McManus on Nostra Aetate | October 23, 2015 | Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly | PBS