- April 19, 2024
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The Multifaith Project’s goal is to educate the youth about acceptance, particularly between the three Abrahamic faiths. Today in the world there is much tension between the extremists of these religions. Being a part of this project helps the relationships between Christianity, Islam and Judaism for tomorrow.
As a 13-year-old Jew, I took this experience as an opportunity to make friends, no matter the religion. But along with being social, I was impacted on the similarities between our religions. During the event at my school, the Jewish Academy of Orlando, I learned about Muslims in the Holocaust; something I had never heard of before. I also saw impressive similarities in the places of worship and prayer services of the Abrahamic faiths.
For my school to be a part of this program not only helps the Jewish Academy be involved in community events, but helps its students, like me, learn more about the diversity of the world in which we live.
—Hannah Schafer
Jewish Academy of Orlando hosted two local schools in a program that helps build bridges between religion and ethnicity on Feb. 7 in conjunction with the Multifaith Education Project, which seeks to teach children how to become peace ambassadors.
Nearly 120 middle schoolers from Geneva Christian School, a Christian classical school, and Leader’s Preparatory School, an Islamic school, joined Jewish Academy’s middle schoolers for a morning of cooperative learning and connections.
The program included a visit to The Holocaust Center in Maitland to view its new exhibit, “BESA: A Code of Honor”. The exhibit consists of photographs and text that tell the remarkable story of the Albanian people — the majority of whom are Muslim — who rescued their entire Jewish population.
The Multifaith Education Program, directed by Louise Sheehy, is about making friends and sustaining relationships between faiths.
Hannah Schafer, an eighth-grader at Jewish Academy of Orlando in Maitland, wrote the letter at right about her experience that day.
