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MAJIC Graduation 2018
On Sunday, April 8, we celebrated MAJIC (Muslims and Jews Inspiring Change) Graduation. Our incredible high school fellows have been learning together all year and we know that they are going to make a major difference in their communities and in the world. Congratulations to all of our MAJICians! (more…)
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Holocaust Remembrance Day
On April 12, NewGround joins those around the world in reflection and remembrance on Yom HaShoah, or Holocaust Remembrance Day. Read more about “One in Thirty” here. (more…)
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Alumni Event: Nonviolent Communication
Last Tuesday, March 27th, NewGround hosted an alumni event at our office. The workshop was led by NewGround’s Fellowship Alum Eliyahu Ungar-Sargon. Inspired by NewGround, Eliyahu wanted to learn and further develop his skills to communicate more effectively. This lead him to invest in learning and practicing nonviolent communication skills. (more…)
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Meeting with John Gore
On Tuesday, March 20, 2018, NewGround’s ED, Aziza Hasan, traveled to Washington DC to meeting with Acting Assistant Attorney General John Gore. The meeting was to address hate crimes at a Capital Hill Event hosted by Senator Grassley and Senator Feinstein and was sponsored by the Muslim-Jewish Advisory Committee. (more…)
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Young Leaders in Action
Over the past few months NewGround and The Righteous Conversations Projects have been hosting digital storytelling workshops for this years MAJIC Change-Makers. The workshops are designed to engage NewGround’s High School Leadership Council in a creative process culminating in a trio of films.
Enjoy this selection of photos from the sessions.
All photos by Righteous Conversations Project/Elai Shaine
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Meeting the Moment Podcast
NewGround Board Member, community leader, and communications strategist Edina Lekovic has recently launched her podcast Meeting the Moment.
The podcast explores our capacity to dig deep and step up during the most challenging moments in our lives.
We are excited to share that the latest episode is a feature interview with NewGround’s Executive Director Aziza Hasan.
Here’s an excerpt from the episode’s description:
In this conversation, Aziza explains why choosing curiosity over assumptions is the most powerful choice we can make during conflict. Plus, Aziza shares why feels she was born into the work of inter-religious community building through conflict transformation and we reflect on our decade of bringing people together for difficult conversations and relational resilience.
You can listen to this epsiode here, on MTMpod.com, Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, SoundCloud
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Event: Death Over Dinner
The 2018 NewGround Changemaker Fellows invite you to the first Death over Dinner: Jewish-Muslim Edition on Sunday, April 15.
Death Over Dinner is a national project to bring people together over text and food to discuss death and dying. In recent years, Reboot partnered with Death Over Dinner to create Death Over Dinner: The Jewish Edition.
“As NewGround Changemaker Fellows, we are taking the model and adding more spice, integrating the Muslim perspective to the table and conversation, hence the “Jewish-Muslim” Edition. Come join us for a vegetarian night full of Jews & Muslims in Los Angeles gathering to share how we grieve, how we approach death, rituals and texts in conversation and connection.”
To participate, RSVP here by April 1st.
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Guest Speaker: Gary Mason
On February 27, we welcomed, Gary Mason, a Methodist clergy person, who has spent 27 years in Belfast dedicated to facilitating the peace process in Northern Ireland.
NewGround Fellowship alumni and friends got together with Gary on Tuesday, February 27, to learn how to engage with people who are at extreme ends of the spectrum and how to move from violence to connection.
Gary has lectured in political, religious and academic forums throughout Europe, South Africa, the Middle East and the U.S.A. seeking to engage, mentor and share lessons from the Irish peace process. Gary was instrumental in facilitating negotiations with paramilitaries and government officials and in 2007.
Through his words and his example, Gary Mason compelled us to push past that pain and fear of the “other” in order to promote our shared humanity and effectively pursue peace.” – Maia Ferdman, Human Relations Advocate, HCIDLA
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Jewish Journal Feature
Earlier this week, The Jewish Journal published an article highlighting NewGround’s Trail Blazer Award Dinner. We would like share a special thank you with the author Ryan Torok, and with The Jewish Journal, for covering the impactful event. Read the full article here!
