High hopes for UK’s first Jewish-Muslim women’s conference

Representatives of the Community Security Trust and its Muslim counterpart, Tell Mama, are also due to take part in panel discussions, as well as staffers from a range of other Jewish, Muslim and interfaith organisations.

Laura Marks OBE, the co-founder of Nisa-Nashim, expressed confidence that this would be “a ground-breaking event.

“Women play a key role in both the Jewish and Muslim communities, though often with a quieter voice and less publicly,” she said.

“By bringing people together we are showcasing the quality of our women, their interest in the key issues of our times, and their ability and willingness to change the negative narrative.”

Julie Siddiqi, the other half of the Nisa-Nashim founding duo, spoke of the conference as “a chance to bring Jewish and Muslim women together in one place, to meet maybe for the first time, and find new and different ways to do things in our communities.

“We can learn from each other and we can start to tackle serious community challenges together,” she said.

“I’m looking forward to exploring this at the conference and beyond.”