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Interfaith colleagues and friends

MONIR LUDIN, an experienced navigator of detours, arrives 20 minutes before his friend Rabbi Stephen Booth-Nadav, whose bike route is compromised by construction on 13th Ave. The 56-year-old Muslim is no stranger to obstacles, whether religious, political, geographical or societal. Ludin’s father, a Princeton-educated Afghan diplomat and fierce anti-communist, endured many upheavals during the Soviet-Afghanistan war of 1979-1989. The political turmoil also uprooted his son. A teen when his father was appointed Afghanistan’s ambassador to Germany, Ludin found himself in a new culture. “It was a fortuitous time,” he tells the Intermountain Jewish News, “just before the communists took over Afghanistan. “So we were saved.” Ludin graduated high school in Bonn and enrolled in pre-med at college, also in Bonn. His studies were cut short […]
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