Jewish-Muslim Youth relations
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Topic: Jewish-Muslim Youth relations
Posted By: GulRukh
Subject: Jewish-Muslim Youth relations
Date Posted: 10 December 2005 at 3:21pm
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Hello, Please circulate to contacts in your community and around the world. We are searching for 18 exceptional young people (nine Muslims & nine Jews) from eighteen different countries between the ages of 16-18 the participate in an historic project. Together, they will create an unprecedented Muslim-Jewish Relations Guidebook to Mutual Discovery. It will be distributed to Jewish and Muslim communities all over the world at the end of 2006. We need your help to get this information/application into the hands of the 16-18 year-olds in your communities. Applications are due no later than January 20th. Applicants must be: - highly motivated - prepared to engage with the project via the Internet on a daily basis for four months - feel comfortable communicating in basic written English with other mostly non-native speakers - have access to a camera and a willingness to explore their religious community through photography - knowledgable about their own religious tradition and comfortable serving as a peer educator to those from the other community - willing to serve as an ambassador for Muslim-Jewish relations both in their own community and abroad. ****Below is the decription of the program**** ------------------------------------------- Discovery Program: "Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the World" Nelson Mandela The Discovery Program is an intensive four-month online seminar that is designed to act as an educational gateway in bringing together Muslim and Jewish youth to examine their current, as well as prospective relations. Youth from all over the world are encouraged to engage in thought-provoking discussions that tackle themes related to religion, political debates, and the Arab-Israeli conflict and its effect on Muslim-Jewish relations. The program also provides an open forum to critically analyze the different forms of media and their impact on these two communities. The Discovery Program creates new opportunities and possibilities to learn about the 'other' by providing young Muslims and Jews with a platform to understand one another, to appreciate their respective culture and tradition, as well as to explore the similarities in beliefs and practices. Along the lines of the notion that "a picture is worth a thousand words", the participants also discover their shared spiritual values through photography and thought provoking discussions. Each group of the discovery program consists of eighteen students, 9 Muslims and 9 Jews, who are selected from Jewish and Muslim communities from all over the world to take pictures of Muslim and Jewish religious themes, symbols, rituals and events. These photos serve as powerful and spiritual visual tools that both challenge and prompt the students to explore and reflect on many issues that are considered 'taboo'. At the end of this educational journey, the students work together to publish a photo essay that serves as an educational tool for use in Muslim and Jewish schools and communities around the world. This photo essay is a combination of photos and essays compiled by the participants in order for them to share their discoveries, insights and realizations with other Jews and Muslims locally and globally. The main goals of this four month long seminar are to: 1. Become leaders in Jewish and Muslim youth dialogue 2. Discover common theological and cultural beliefs and practices 3. Foster interaction between Muslim and Jewish teenagers around the world, with the aim of restoring a culture of respect based on knowledge and understanding 4. Become pioneers in the exploration of Jewish and Muslim traditions and breaking down the walls of mistrust, hate, and rivalry 5. Build creative and practical skills for peace-building and open dialogue between the two communities. Thank you for reading, Best regards, Gul Rukh |
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Posted By: Community
Date Posted: 10 December 2005 at 6:46pm
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why the age limits of 16-18 year-olds? Not married, confused, i think thats the age limits that Al Qaida uses to recruit foot soldiers.... |
Posted By: GulRukh
Date Posted: 11 December 2005 at 9:37am
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Dear Senior member, we are an international non-profit organisation
that work with Muslim and Jewish teenagers all over the world and hence
the age limit. you could contact me for further questions at [email protected] W/salam |
Posted By: Community
Date Posted: 13 December 2005 at 6:15am
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wa alaikum asalaam, i just do not see the purpose of setting age limits, especially with relations between the childeren of Abraham. |
Posted By: GulRukh
Date Posted: 14 December 2005 at 3:37pm
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Dear Senior Member, Salam, &nbs p; As I described earlier, we are an interfaith-based educational initiative that aims to bridge the ever-increasing gap between these two communities. We work with teens because we think that at that age they have found their own voice and identity to a certain extent. They can contribute productively to the educational objectives. |
Posted By: Angela
Date Posted: 14 December 2005 at 3:42pm
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GulRukh, I think its an excellent idea. I know a mother of a boy about that age. I'll email her this forum and see if her son is interested. Perhaps you should expand that to 27 and add 9 christian teens as well.
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Just a suggestion, don't be offended.Posted By: GulRukh
Date Posted: 14 December 2005 at 3:51pm
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Dear Angela, &nbs p; Thank you so much for your encouragment. We need these words as we understand that our work is not very popular. &nbs p; I am not offended. Why would I be offended? Part of what we are trying to do is to foster dialogue, so that we may learn to respect different view points. &nbs p; But we will only be successful if both sides take part in a constructive dialogue. Gul Rukh |
Posted By: Community
Date Posted: 14 December 2005 at 4:33pm
| If you wish a dialogue then why the age limits? |
Posted By: Community
Date Posted: 14 December 2005 at 4:35pm
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Yes yes, educational, we adults are not capable of education anymore, we are stuck in our opinions and we are not as influencable anymore? lol |
Posted By: GulRukh
Date Posted: 14 December 2005 at 4:38pm
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Dear Senior Member, & ;nbs p; We are in the process of developing a public forum that allows people of all ages to interact with each other. If you are interested in joining it, please let me know your contact information and as soon as we launch the Public Forum, I will email you. regards, Gul Rukh |
Posted By: Community
Date Posted: 14 December 2005 at 5:10pm
| you got it. |
Posted By: GulRukh
Date Posted: 14 December 2005 at 5:13pm
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Yes, thank you so much. I am in the middle of writing an email to you. Best regards, Gul Rukh |
Posted By: Community
Date Posted: 14 December 2005 at 5:18pm
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i look forward to read it. |
Posted By: herjihad
Date Posted: 14 December 2005 at 5:49pm
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Bismillah, Have you heard of the camp they have every year in New England? ------------- Al-Hamdulillah (From a Married Muslimah) La Howla Wa La Quwata Illa BiLLah - There is no Effort or Power except with Allah's Will. |
Posted By: GulRukh
Date Posted: 14 December 2005 at 5:53pm
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Salam, No, I have not - Would you like to please tell us a lit bit more about that? Thanks. Gul Rukh |
Posted By: herjihad
Date Posted: 14 December 2005 at 5:55pm
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Bismillah, Sorry. They had a special on tv last year about it. I think it's been held for a few years now. Let us know if you find it! It's a summer camp, so pretty soon they should be getting people registered for it. ------------- Al-Hamdulillah (From a Married Muslimah) La Howla Wa La Quwata Illa BiLLah - There is no Effort or Power except with Allah's Will. |