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That's not only the basis for the founding of JAMmARTt (Jews and Muslims Making ART Together), but for its artwork, Art Without Borders: A Celebration of Humanity, which Breitling for Bentley BT-198 be formally unveiled with a reception at the Montgomery County Executive Office Building this evening at 6. The installation will be on display through Oct. 17.

"The geometrical shapes [of the exhibit's structures] have no religious significance," says Betsy Nahum-Miller, 53, of Rockville, a founder of the group. "But as you move to the center of the piece, the complexity of the shapes increase - from two sides, to three, to four and then to a cylinder. That signifies the increasing Breitling for Bentley Midsize QUARTZ Chronograph BT-161 of the other as learning increased."

There are seven structures because seven is an important number to botti Jews and Muslims. Among its uses in Judaism are the seven days of creation and the seven species of fruits and grains to be found in the land of Israel; in Islam, seven is significant as the number of times a pilgrim on the Haj walks around the Ka'bah in Breitling for Bentley Midsize QUARTZ Chronograph BT-162, according to Shela Qamer, 57, of Vienna, and there are seven heavens (also in Judaism and other religions).

The artwork is composed of paint, fiber, metal, glass, ceramic and wood.A discussion on interfaith dialogue at Nahum-Miller's synagogue, Tikvat Israel Congregation, and a similar lecture in a course she was taking in 2008 "sparked in me a desire to do something on the local level," says Nahum-Miller, an exhibit director Breitling for Bentley Midsize QUARTZ Chronograph BT-170 the Library of Congress. "As I am a more visual person, making something appealed to me."

So working through her rabbi, Howard Gorin, she contacted Sabir Rahman, president and interfaith coordinator of the Muslim Community Center of Silver Spring, and the group was born.

JAMmARTt has 16 members (a few others also took part in the project), Nahum-Miller says, split about evenly between the two faiths.Qamer, a member of ADAMS Center (All Dulles Area Muslim Society), was the group's first Muslim member. A Realtor, she says she thinks it is very important to have interfaith dialogue and that "art would be an interesting way of approaching building relationships."

Members of the local Muslim community with whom she has discussed the project have been entiiusiastic about it, says Qamer, "and have been asking when they can see the project."

Qamer says the group has focused "on things common among us, rather than what divides us. ... We think the conflict in the Middle East shouldn't affect relationships between American Jews and American Muslims."

Nahum-Miller agrees that members have shied away from talking about the Middle East, but thinks that might become a topic for discussion should the group continue past this project.