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Reflections on Engagement

A collection of resources, community-based and scholarly, which reflect upon contemporary changes, issues, and positive interactions in the world of Muslim-Jewish Relations

Public Radio's Speaking of Faith

In February 2009, NewGround participants teamed up, two by two, and asked each other questions about their time in the program — the struggles and the joys, the memories and the ideas that changed them. StoryCorps recorded these conversations and Speaking of Faith selected clips to give you a better idea of the scope of this interfaith dialogue. For links to the full interview and for a full transcript of the interviews, click here. For audio excerpts, see below.


"When Muslims Saved Jews" by Eboo Patel, Washington Post On Faith Blog, 25 June 2009.

We hear many accounts of what happened during the Holocaust. The atrocities committed; the times and places in which unspeakable acts against humankind occurred; the millions of lives stolen too soon. But the story told by Nazlie Alla, whose Albanian Muslim family sheltered Jews from Greece, Slovakia, and Germany, is less well known.

Partners in Humanity Special Series: Jewish-Muslim Relations 2008, Common Ground News Service

“Judaism and Islam in Dialogue,” Torah at the Center, Volume 11, No. 3, Summer 2008.

The Union for Reform Judaism has released the summer edition of their publication Torah at the Center focusing on Jewish-Muslim dialogue from a Jewish perspective.

“The Muslim-Jewish Tipping Point,” by Eboo Patel, Washington Post On Faith Blog, 14 July 2008.

Eboo Patel is founder and executive director of the Interfaith Youth Core, a Chicago-based international nonprofit that promotes interfaith cooperation. His blog, The Faith Divide, explores what drives faiths apart and what brings them together.