Updates

We’re excited to announce the first in a series of author conversations coming this fall. Our first talk will be with Stephanie Saldaña, author of What We Remember Will Be Saved: A Story of Refugees and the Things They Carry.

Join CCEJ this Tuesday, September 24th for the United Against Hate Webinar: Building Bridges in Divided Times - Online | 1pm – 2pm PT.

Join us this evening (Wednesday, August 28th) at 6:30 p.m. PT online for a reflection with other faith leaders on the March on Washington and its legacy today.

Sharp eyes will recognize several NewGround community members in this group picture from the Day of Religious Pluralism, hosted by LA Civil Rights. Aziza Hasan and Brie Loskota led guided table conversations on the theme of the event: humanitarian solidarity. 

Aziza Hasan spoke during a symposium convened by UCLA's Center for the Study of Hate. She spoke about how hate is a learned behavior that can be unlearned, and how hate can become a driving force of identity for people, which can make it hard to relinquish.

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 […]