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Podcast: North Star with Ellin Bessner
Episode: [In Good Faith] What Canadians can learn from Israelis and Palestinians whose grief led them to advocate for peace
Description: This episode originally aired on The CJN's peace-building podcast, In Good Faith. To subscribe and hear more, visit thecjn.ca/faith.
There’s a teaching that appears almost word-for-word in both Jewish and Islamic scriptures: whoever kills a soul, it's as if he killed the entire world; anyone who saves one soul, it is as if he had saved mankind entirely. Judaism and Islam diverge on many points—but on this one, they’re in unanimous agreement.
Yet over the last two years, both Jews and Muslims in Canada and around the world have felt like t...