South Jersey Rabbi Andy Bossov, senior rabbi at Temple Adath Emanuel in Mt. Laurel, Burlington County, will join thousands of other walkers for the National Kidney Foundation’s Zoo Walk this Sunday at the Philadelphia Zoo.

Bossov, a Mt. Laurel resident, made international headlines two and a half years ago, when he received a live kidney donation from Presbyterian minister Karen Onesti, who offered to donate her kidney when she learned at a gathering of local clergy that Bossov needed one.

In this news wrapper with correspondent Steve Lubetkin (loo BEHT kin), Bossov (BAH sawv) talks about the experience and describes the goals of the Zoo Walk.

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Tributes are pouring in from the interfaith dialogue community for Voorhees resident Zia Rahman, who led the successful establishment of a mosquein Voorhees and helped to build an interfaith dialogue among Muslims, Jews, and Roman Catholics. Rahman died this week after a long battle with cancer.

In this radio wrapper report, Steve Lubetkin speaks with three leaders of the interfaith dialogue group about Rahman’s legacy for relations among the three Abrahamic faiths.

Included in the report is an excerpt from a 2008 interview with Rahman after the signing of a historic agreement of understanding between the South Jersey Muslim community and the Roman Catholic Diocese of Camden.

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In photo, Zia Rahman, right, points out features of the Muslim mosque in Voorhees to Most Rev. Bishop Joseph Galante, of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Camden. More photos from the Catholic-Muslim ceremony are here. You can watch a complete video report on the ceremony with comments from participants on our video feed here.