Jewish Teens Wanted for Online Interfaith Dialogue
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Article: Jewish Teens Wanted for Online Interfaith Dialogue
Originaly Posted On: 2007-03-25 22:25:33
Children of Abraham’s Global Discovery Program (GDP) is an intensive four-month online seminar that is designed to act as an educational gateway to bring together Muslim and Jewish youth from eleven cities across the world, including Damascus, Dubai, Jakarta, London, Montreal, Marrakech, Moscow, Paris, Riyadh, Tehran, and New York.
Participants investigate a wide variety of topics and go through a journey of mutual discovery. They examine their current, as well as prospective relations, engage in thought-provoking discussions about their common Abrahamic roots, their social and cultural similarities and differences, the globalization of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and its effects on global Jewish-Muslim relations.
The main goals of the program are:
- To incubate young Muslim and Jewish leaders in a virtual community that enables them to explore the frontiers of the Muslim-Jewish relationship.
- To bring young Muslims and Jews together to examine the bases of the past, present and future relationship between Islam and Judaism.
- To provide Muslims and Jews who do not have the opportunity to interact with each other a forum to do so and thereby gain some of the perspective that living in a pluralistic society brings.
- To model effective methods of interfaith dialogue so that participants can bring Children of Abraham’s message to their own communities.
- To transmit the knowledge and confidence to take on leading roles in Muslim-Jewish dialogue.
- To encourage Muslim and Jewish youth to build empathetic relationships that will be the basis of a broader rapprochement between the two communities.
Children of Abraham is currently seeking more Jewish participants, aged 16-18. If you, or anyone you know, may be interested, apply online today!
