A group of interfaith activists including Muslims and Jews joined in a tree-planting ceremony in London on Friday despite the tensions rippling from conflict in the Middle East.
Rabbi Natan Levy, head of operations at Strengthening Faiths Institution, said, “There have been pressures on some of us, both Jews and Muslims, not to do interfaith work at this time. But if we don’t speak, the voices of division will.”
The 15 trees were planted in Dulwich to commemorate the late co-chair of Faiths Forum for London, Leonie Lewis, who died last year. The group plan to plant 100 trees in all across the capital in her memory as their commitment to a green London.
Rabbi Levy acknowledged, "It's difficult to talk to my Muslim friends at the moment because our political views are so very different and opinions so deeply divided.
