Updates

As reported in World Religion News, NewGround executive director Aziza Hasan was one of several panelists at a discussion following the Interfaith Solidarity March in Los Angeles, organized and produced by the Institute for Religious Tolerance, Peace and Justice (IRTPJ). 

The NewGround Professional Change-Maker Program provides the expertise and relationships needed to transform Muslim-Jewish relations and work on issues of shared concern. This experience is an investment in religious, civic, and communal leadership to foster a network in which community members support and challenge one another.

Spectrum News journalist Zarina Khairzada profiled our programs director, Tasneem Noor, and associate director, Andrea Hodos, on how NewGround's work has been impacted by the crisis in Israel and Gaza, and how they have needed to adapt the fellowship to meet this moment.

We are in search of strong candidates for next year’s MAJIC cohort. Learning to listen resiliently and speak with courageous compassion is more critical than ever before. MAJIC provides the space to have rough draft conversations and build coalition skills at a time when polarization is ripping us apart.

Last weekend, our current cohort of Professional Fellows convened the first NewGround Symposium, an opportunity for NewGround community members to come together under the guidance of the Fellows to discuss the intense topics that these Fellows have grappled with over the past year: anti-Muslim and anti-Jewish hate and bias, the interconnections between them, and the many painful stories connected to Israel Palestine and the crisis in Gaza.

  @abcnews highlighted NewGround and our Executive Director, Aziza Hasan, in a new article saying: "One of the most powerful moments for me, however, was one of the most somber." The iftar held by NewGround, a group led by executive director Aziza Hasan and associate director Andrea Hodos – Palestinian and Jewish, respectively – brought together dozens of Muslims and Jewish people.

On Tuesday evening, we graduated our most recent cohort of MAJICians, and we take inspiration from them in this moment. They have been doing this work for a full year in some of the most difficult circumstances for Muslim and Jewish teens in the US right now. And they persevered.

Crossroads of Three Abrahamic Faiths

"To destroy a life is to destroy all of humanity. To save a life is to save all of humanity."

Instead of convening our traditional large and celebratory Iftar this year, we are encouraging you to gather with people you care about and to be there for one […]

During this time of grief we will join together to learn, pray, and break our fasts. We will uplift stories of Gazans and stories of Israelis, […]

March 25: We also will have a conversation with academics and activists Omar Dajani and Mira Sucharov on March 25 at 12 PM. Omar Dajani served as […]

The conversation continues on Feb 22, 4 PM PST. Join us on Zoom as we discuss The Wall Between: What Jews and Palestinians Don’t Want to Know about Each […]

Thank you for your interest in the NewGround Facilitation Skills Training 2024 aimed at building participants capacity for communicating across differences. Together we shall build a community […]

We are grateful for Part I training with the Trauma Resource Institute. The evening focused on skills that are helpful in the middle of crisis when […]