Ramadan started earlier this month and continues through the beginning of May. Meanwhile the first night of Passover begins tonight — on the same day as Good Friday, with Easter on Sunday.
“God wants us to be able to respect the individuality of our belief systems, along with respecting the humanity and the love in each of us,” he said.
“So it feels really meaningful that the stories that I'm reading in the Quran this month in particular, are also the stories that my friends and members of the Jewish and Christian community are also reflecting upon.”She reflects on a past tradition in her friend’s community where Jewish people would give flour to their Muslim neighbors during Passover. In return, the neighbors would prepare a meal with that flour after Passover was done.
“So hopefully we take that message of what was history for us and look at how it applies in today's society, whether that be with refugees, immigrants, whether we think about the Ukrainian people in this season and lift them up at our tables.” This overlapping of holy days — which are connected to three different calendars — only happens about every 30 years.
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