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UPCOMING EVENTS
Join us June 24th at the Association of Conflict Resolution NYC Conference.
Learn Dialogue and other Mediation techniques.
Learn about ACRGNY at http://www.acrgny.org/
For more
information about upcoming events, please call 718-768-2175.
NEIGHBORHOOD DIALOGUES
Ongoing Dialogues for Palestinians, Israelis and others connected to the Middle East.
Manhattan - June 10
Brooklyn – June 13
Westchester – June 21th
For more information about dialogue groups, please call 718-768-2175.
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Help
us build trust,
relationships, and partnerships among neighbors, citizens,
and immigrants of different
faiths and cultures.
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Speaking Across Differences |
Community Empowerment Through Dialogues, Interfaith Outreach and Training |
DIALOGUE PROJECT - MINI TEACH IN
Looking at Exclusion and Inclusion in our texts and traditions
Wednesdays: April 29, May 27 and June 17
Limited availability. To get the location, please first fill out the participant registration form. Call 718-768-2175 for more information.
Teacher Bios
Rabbi Matt (Moshe) Carl is the Associate Rabbi of Congregation Mount Sinai in Brooklyn Heights and the Campus Rabbi of Hunter College. He also writes and teaches in Brooklyn and beyond on many issues of Judaism and spirituality. His strong interest in Hasidism and in meditation led him to research and write on embodied meditative practices of the Hasidic masters. He has studied in Reform, Conservative and Orthodox institutions in Israel and the US. Last summer, Rabbi Carl had has first interfaith speaking opportunity since ordination at an interfaith service honoring then-Senator Obama. He hopes to use interfaith education and dialogue to influence more locally-focused issues, too.
Sarah Sayeed, Ph.D., is a Program and Communications Associate at the Interfaith Center of NY where she coordinates the Rabbi Marshall T. Meyer Retreats for Social Justice. She has also worked at NY Disaster Interfaith Services and the American Jewish World Service. Sarah is a graduate of Princeton University and earned her Ph.D in communications from the Annenberg School for Communications, University of Pennsylvania, where she specialized in public health communication. She is a board member of Women in Islam, Inc., and Muslim Consultative Network and the author of numerous articles relating to Islam, health and women.
The Rev. Steven Paulikas is Assistant to the Rector at Grace Church Brooklyn Heights. He holds a B.A. in Comparative Literature and International Relations from Yale University and an M.Phil. in European Literature from Cambridge University. Before receiving his M.Div. from the General Theological Seminary in Manhattan, Steve worked as a print and broadcast journalist in Lithuania, contributing to media outlets such as the BBC, NPR, and Newsweek.
SPEAKING ACROSS DIFFERENCES SAMPLE AGENDA
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Sign in,
Food,
Mingling
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7:00-7:15 |
Name Go-Round
Guidelines
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7:15-8:00 |
Small group dialogue (small groups
of 3-4)
Last time we didn't get to the main issue – places where your
particular culture and values may differ from the larger society.
We
are going to lead into tonight's question with an exercise where we ask
you to speak from your “I”, from your
personal feelings and experience.
Exercise
– An experience from the “I”: I have
experienced a cultural value or
custom different from my own, and it made me laugh, cry, disturbed me,
informed me, caused me to see something in a different way.
Speaking
only from your personal experience, please share your experience with
your group.
Have you experienced a conflict (within yourself or
with someone else, a co-worker, on the job, at school etc.) because
your values differed from the greater secular, civil culture?
Some examples:
- pledge allegiance in school
- swearing an oath on bible in
court
- young age marriage (Court has to approve)
- legalized
prostitution newsstands selling/displaying magazines with
scantily clad people on covers (some newsstands
remove these, honoring
concerns about modestly; others do not, honoring "freedom of speech"
ideals).
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8:00 -
8:30 |
Large group sharing of small group
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On Wednesday, March
7, 2007 The Dialogue Project initiated the SPEAKING ACROSS
DIFFERENCES Program in Brownstone Brooklyn (Boerum Hill, Brooklyn
Heights, Cobble Hill, Carroll Gardens). at The School for
International Studies. The Playback Theatre troop acted out
the stories of neighbors, both new immigrants and long time
residents. (See images and highlights below)
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From the Brownstone Brooklyn Kick-Off |
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| Speaking Across Differences is a community dialogue program that began in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn in 2005 that Provides: |
- A face-to-face opportunity for Brooklyn natives and newcomers to talk about our lives and neighborhoods
- A chance to learn about your neighbors' culture and faith traditions
- A forum for talking about issues that affect our daily lives in Brownstone Brooklyn
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| Community Partners for this program include: |
| Brownstone Brooklyn - The Arab American Family Support Center, Brooklyn Heights Synagogue, Community Board 6, Public School 58, The School for International Studies, Dawood Mosque, St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Kane Street Synagogue, Christ Church Episcopal, Mt. Sinai Synagogue, The Oratory Church of St. Boniface, Packer Collegiate Institute, St. Ann & the Holy Trinity, Our Lady of Lebanon Cathedral, Grace Church, Eileen Dugan Center, Plymouth Church of the Pilgrims, SABA – The Association of Yemeni Americans, New American Chamber of Commerce |
| Bay Ridge - Arab American Association of New York, Bay Ridge Jewish Center, Salam Arabic Lutheran Church, PS 102, Al Noor School, Lutheran Medical Center, Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, Islamic Society of Bay Ridge, St. Andrews Church and Our Lady of Angels Church. |
Pilot Challenge Grant provided by The Independence Bank Community Foundation |
Contributors: The New York Community Trust and Citizens for NYC/Deutche Bank New Neighborhood Partners |
Dave Hall's "Come to Brooklyn" |
Come to Brooklyn by winter's glow
You know it looks so pretty under newly fallen snow
Come to Brooklyn
Come to Brooklyn, live in my brownstone
And I promise you: you will never live alone
Come to Brooklyn
Live with me on the very same street
Where your grandparents happened to meet.
Come to Brooklyn when the flowers bloom
Come and see the colors from the window of my room
Come to Brooklyn
Come to Brooklyn, walk across the bridge
Climb up to my roof, see from Williamsburgh to Bay Ridge
Come to Brooklyn
Walk the park under falling rain
See the roofs of houses from the windows of the train
And listen to the neighborhood's quiet, mad refrain
Come to Brooklyn, hear the children play
On the streets and sidewalks on a humid summer day
Come to Brooklyn
Live with me...
Come to Brooklyn when the colors change
Smell the scents of Autumn as the leaves all rearrange
Come to Brooklyn
Come to Brooklyn, spend a gentle year
And stay with me, stay with me, stay with me here
Come to Brooklyn
Walk the park under falling rain
See the roofs of houses from the window of the train
And listen to the neighborhood's quiet, mad refrain
Come to Brooklyn
Come to Brooklyn
Come to Brooklyn
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