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“Curiosity Over Assumptions” “Relationships Before Politics” “Plurality Over Parity” “Local Over International” “Respect for Self-Definition” “Safe Open Space” “Nimble and Responsive” These are the stated values of NewGround, a community-building organization that creates, connects and empowers Jewish and Muslim change-makers in America. NewGround works through a professional fellowship, high school leadership council and public programming.. Read more »
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“Last spring I found out that my father was not my biological father,” I told him, keeping the story as brief as possible.
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As a Black Jewish woman, it feels inevitable that whenever a book comes out about being Black and Jewish, someone’s going to tell me to read it. So when someone asked me to review Color Me In by Natasha Diaz, I was skeptical. Usually these books are not actually written for me they are written to. Read more »
Who did I depend on when telling the story of Israel
the place and the people in this extraordinary year? Who stood invisibly behind me, whispering a fresh insight, an incisive analysis, an unforgettable story, while I taught on distance learning platforms? Each of the gifted men and women listed below, who were invaluable in my work of bringing Israel and the global Jewish people to the scores of classrooms we reached virtually in 2020.
But there is another audience they impacted, an audience of one. Me.
In a year when travel to Israel was all but impossible, their work sustained me on the days I needed it the most.