Guest Op-Ed: Three faiths united against violence
BY BRITA ROSE
The three major confessional faith traditions – Judaism, Christianity and Islam – united last month in Bay Ridge, in a unique interfaith service commemorating the 75th year since Kristallnacht, an organized pogrom on November 9 and 10, 1938, when 236 Jews were murdered and over 30,000 were arrested and taken to concentration camps.
Art on the Corner and Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd hosted the Interfaith Service of Remembrance and Prayer – Hope Out of Brokenness – on November 9 in collaboration with Rabbi Dina Rosenberg of Bay Ridge Jewish Center, Reverend Donald Stiger of Lutheran HealthCare Office of Mission & Spirituality, Dr. Ahmed Jaber of the Arab American Association of New York, Deacon Greg Dixon of St. Andrew the Apostle Roman Catholic Church, and Reverend David Rommereim of Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd.