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Menorah lighting in Abu Dahbi

B"H Chabad Rabbi  Zalman Kastel  of was allowed to publicly kindle a Menorah during the Forum for Peace at the Arab Emirate of Abu Dhabi. By Rabbi Zalman Kastel As a young Oholei Torah Bochur, my Chaverim and I always aspired to change the world. Yet I never imagined that I, a Chabad Rabbi wearing a black hat, would be invited to a Forum for Promoting Peace in Muslim societies, in the Arab Emirate of Abu Dhabi. The Forum was initiated by an authority on Islamic law and religion, Shaykh  Abdullah Bin Bayyah . On the second night of the forum, I lit the menorah in the presence of the Shaykh and two key leaders of the American Muslim community, together with a group of other Jewish leaders, academics and rabbis from the US, Europe and Israel. Delegates at the Forum included many Muslim leaders from the Middle East, Pakistan, Africa, Europe and the US. Alongside these leaders were one Yazidi from Northern Iraq, a number of American Christian leaders and about sixteen Jew...