Interfaith Kosovo gathering builds on area’s historic Muslim-Jewish friendship
Three years ago, Joshua Stanton was walking around Peja, a Balkan city where the skyline includes the minarets of three historic mosques, when he decided to put on his yarmulke.
“I am Jewish,” he thought. “I want to put it on.”
This was not something he would do in France, Germany, or other places where anti-Semitism is on the rise. But Stanton, a young rabbi visiting from New Jersey, felt different in this region.
