Published: 2 August 2019
Last updated: 4 March 2024
At an awards ceremony at Bankstown in Sydney last week, Feinstein was honoured as an outstanding writer for AMUST by Mr Chin Tan, Race Discrimination Commissioner at the Australian Human Rights Commission.
Zia Ahmad, the paper’s Editor-in-Chief, said: "[Philip’s] writings in AMUST contribute towards interfaith understanding between our Jewish and Muslim communities in Australia, highlighting the good work that is being carried out in order to maintain peace and harmony in our country.”
Feinstein, CEO of the Music for Refugees organisation and leader of Jews for Refugees in NSW, said: "The Australasian Muslim Times is a paper I feel comfortable with due to their acceptance of open-minded editorial.
"I really appreciate their acceptance of the variety of stories that I write, all directed at peace between Jews, Muslims and Christians, plus Tutsis and Hutus in east Africa."
AMUST managing editor, Mobinah Ahmad, added: "While most media outlets tend to focus on just the bad news around the world, the approach at AMUST is to bring various sections of the community together by highlighting achievements and cooperation between Australia's multicultural community."
In the paper’s spirit of interfaith, there was a Jewish presence at the awards night, with Rabbi Zalman Kastel – founder of the interfaith educational organisation Together For Humanitiy – and Shoshana Cochrane, from Courage to Care, enjoying the evening.
AMUST has now published 163 issues since it was launched five years ago.
Main photo: Zia Ahmad, Editor in Chief of AMUST, with Philip Feinstein
