Education Israel Project #1521

Community Building for 1000 Jews & Muslims 2023-25

by Interfaith Encounter Association (IEA)

Community Building for 1000 Jews & Muslims 2023-25

Project Report | Dec 17, 2019
Bar Ilan University - Continuation group

By Dr. Yehuda Stolov | Executive Director

After successfully completing the Interreligious Dialogue course last year, we have gathered again to the first encounter of our new group that will give continuation to the process of building bridges through interfaith encounters. The encounter took place at Bar Ilan University with eight beautiful people: five Jewish women, two Muslims women, and one atheist.

This week’s topic was about the prophet “Yusuf”, “Yosef”, “Joseph” PBUH. We listened to the story of the prophet Yosef from both Islamic and Jewish perspectives. We were happy to hear how similar the stories are. The meeting lasted two hours, and the participants were very curious and asked many questions about both sides. We hope to continue our journey together and invite other students at Bar Ilan University to join us for our future encounters.

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Nov 25, 2019
Interfaith/Intercultural Listening Group

By Dr. Yehuda Stolov | Executive Director

Nov 4, 2019
Midwives of Peace - 2 events in July

By Dr. Yehuda Stolov | Executive Director

12.7.19

We met at Beit Jala on July 12th with 9 people present. Mindy facilitated the group meeting. She and Aisha shared with us about the WOMEN DELIVER 2019, a very large conference on gender equality and empowerment that they attended in June 2019 in Canada. Their presentation was followed by Miriam’s touching question: WHAT IS YOUR DROP IN THE OCEAN? We each took turns going around the room and sharing our 'drop in the ocean', in which way are we contributing to our family and community. Afterwards, we heard updates from activities our members were involved, such as addressing the lack of basic needs such as clean water and clothing for young children, and supporting women facing a breast cancer diagnosis. We closed with a discussion about the Conference for Palestinian Midwives and Nurses, that was about to take place on July 29th.

29.7.19

On July 29th, we held a Study Day on the topic of “Sexual Violence and Women’s Health” that was a great success. The attendees included 23 Palestinian midwives and nurses, working in government hospitals, NGOs and UNRWA. They came from Hebron, Ramallah and Bethlehem to participate, together with members of our group, Midwives of Peace. Altogether, we were close to 40 women sitting together, listening to lectures, listening to one another, discussing, questioning and telling stories of how sexual violence affects our lives and the lives of the women we know and work with. It was both enlightening and upsetting, and it gave all of us an opportunity to learn more about the lives of the other.

The feedback we received from the participants made it very clear that this is a topic that is relevant to their work and that needs to be further explored. Our plan is to do another study day in a similar format at a venue that is geographically in the North so as to enable midwives and nurses from that region to attend. After both study days, if we have enough interested participants, we plan to create a workshop on the topic.

As always, we are very grateful for your generous support that enables us to do this work.

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