Subject: [uri-contacts] RE****T: Ramadan Feast of IEA's Jerusalem Youth
Interfaith
Encounter - October the 27th, 2004
Dear friends,
Please find below the special re****t from the Ramadan feast
held by the IEA's Jerusalem youth Interfaith Encounter group.
It is beautiful to see how the solution to a religious
challenge of a relatively technical nature, became a wonderful
symbolic act when the Jewish members of the group cooked the
food for their Muslim friends to break their Ramadan fast.
Ramadan Kareem to all our Muslim friends,
Yehuda
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Dear all,
The group's last meeting took place on Wednesday, October the
27th. Since we are in the holly month of Ramadan the group had
decided to join and share the event in a Ramadanik feast.
One main problem stood in front of our eyes, the food should
stand in both the Islamic "Halal" laws and since the
invitation was in one of the Moslem members' house it should
meet also the Jewish strict kosher standards.
So to solve this issue and since none of the Moslem members
are capable of following the kosher laws we needed a kosher
inspector that in time became the cook. The decision was that
even thought it is an Islamic event and a Moslem host - the
Jewish members will do most of the cooking and inspection.
We thank God that the group, during the 2 years of its
existence, developed a high level of understanding and
tolerance to others' mistakes and misunderstandings, and based
on that we managed to solve a lot of serious problems that
appeared.
The first problem was the tools: dishes and cutlery. Since
there should be separation between tools for meat and for milk
and as the tools that were brought by the Jewish members were
not enough for the whole event, we needed to use some of the
Moslems tools, is that ok? Since it became a Moslem tradition
to start the feast with a hot soup, of course after water and
dates, we needed a large pot for cooking and there we faced a
kosher issue: can we use a pot that never before been used for
cooking and but wasn't manufactured by Jews for cocking? The
decision making process took longer than we expected, what
affected the tight time schedule of serving the food by 17:00
o'clock. Eventually we did find the solution to this and many
more other problems and every one was happy.
Of course the food was served at 17:30 o'clock and the
thoughtfulness of the Jewish members was remarkably noticed
when they kicked the Moslem members out of the kitchen
allowing them to brake their fasting on time, and taking
control of the cooking process.
The food was wonderful, the experience was great. We recommend
to all our friends out there to experience it.
Best wishes,
Salah Aladdin, Dotan Arad
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The Interfaith Encounter Association
P.O.Box 3814, Jerusalem 91037, Israel
Phone: +972-2-6510520
Fax: +972-2-6510557
Website: www.interfaith-encounter.org
Board:
Sr. Karmela Farrugia, Chair
Sheikh Muhammad Kiwan, Vice-Chair
Mr. Shlomo Alon, Vice-chair
Sheikh Ali Birani
Rabbi Dov Maimon
Ms. Ibtisam Mahamid
Deacon Eng. Jirias Mansour
Sheikh Tawfiq Salama
Dr. Yehuda Stolov, Director
E-mail: yehuda@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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