Sinai Akiba Students Visit Islamic Center [VIDEO]

By Melanie Reynard
Published on May 7, 2010

Seventh grade students and faculty from Sinai Akiba School in Westwood filed into the Islamic Center in Los Angeles at noon on Friday May 7 for a lecture on Muslim culture and to observe an afternoon prayer session.

The Maher Hathout brouhaha—what’s the end game?

By Rob Eshman
Published on September 28, 2006

Even a resolutely mediocre chess player like me knows it's not enough to have some good opening moves. To win, you need an end game. That's why this month's protest by some Jewish groups against the selection of a Muslim spokesman for a county human relations prize baffled me -- what possible end game could they have in mind?

Controversial Muslim leader Hathout gets award despite opposition

Published on September 21, 2006

At a meeting that featured catcalls, standing ovations and the ejection of a disruptive audience member, Los Angeles' County Human Relations Commission voted again Monday to give an award to Dr. Maher Hathout, a local Muslim leader whose harsh rhetoric on Israel generated accusations of anti-Semitism and extremism.

Maher Hathout—partner for peace or anti-Semite in centrist clothing?

By Marc Ballon
Published on September 14, 2006

Dr. Maher Hathout, like no other local Muslim leader in recent memory, has divided the Jewish community, exposing fissures between Jews who fervently believe in reviving the frayed Jewish-Muslim dialogue and those who have lost faith.