Each year, 20 young Muslim and Jewish professionals are selected to take part in an interfaith program. The program is aimed at helping them gain the skills, relationships and contacts necessary to affect how Muslims and Jews relate to each other in the United States. The participants attend two weekend gatherings and meet twice a month from November to June to learn from each other and from community leaders.
At one recent gathering, a presentation on the history of Islam sparked a discussion among the latest group of NewGround fellows.
Rabbi Sarah Bassin ((PR: BA-sin) is the executive director of NewGround. She says many organizations bring Jews and Christians together, but few exist to connect Jews and Muslims.
“That conversation largely has not begun. We do not have the vocabulary to sit down at the same table in the same way that the Jewish-Christian communities have worked out over the last 50 or 60 years, especially in a post-Holocaust era.”
New Jewish member Abbie Barash says has made some good friends through the group.
“And we have already become so close and I have just known them for like a month now. So it has become extremely valuable for me.”
Actor Amir Abdullah, a Muslim, says differences between the two groups will remain.
“No, Muslims and Jews are not going to agree on everything. Heck, most Muslims are not even going to agree with each other on everything. But if we are able to share those experiences and share how we feel, we can at least get to understand one another, and I think that is really important.”
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