Next spring, if all goes as planned, I will teach a course in the Jewish Studies Department at City College of New York. My rabbinical and graduate school classmate, Rabbi Roy Mittelman, chairs this extraordinary department, and he has offered me an opportunity to see what is going on there first hand. City College of [...]
Archive for April, 2009
City College of New York Jewish Studies Department: A Multifaith World
Posted in Uncategorized on April 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A Weekend of Peacebuilding
Posted in Uncategorized on April 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Sometimes the most contentious conversations are not interfaith but rather intrafaith. Even within a self-selected small community like a congregation, we sometimes find it hard to talk with one another in a respectful, dialogical manner. That is why this past weekend at Congregation Mishkan Shalom(JRF) in Philadelphia was so wonderful. Mishkan Shalom was founded 21 [...]
A Protest against “Tolerance”
Posted in Jewish- Muslim Engagement, Middle East on April 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
By Amy Loewenthal, RRC Slifka Intern in Israel (with help from Alison Prager) About 60 Diaspora Jews, many of us American Jews studying in yeshivas, came together on April 2nd to protest what the Simon Wiesenthal Center was doing across the street from where we stood. Just across from Kikar Chatulim stands a tall wall [...]
The Odd Couple: Jews and Evangelical Christians
Posted in Jewish-Christian Engagement, Religion in America on April 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The most recent issue of the Journal of Ecumenical Studies(Winter, 2009) is devoted to a symposium entitled, “Evangelical-Jewish Relations: Politics, Policy and Theology.” (unfortunately, this journal does not publish its articles on line, but you can purchase a copy from their website.) As usual, the clearest and most helpful piece, in my view, was by [...]
Amos Oz reflects on empathy and the “other”
Posted in Uncategorized on April 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
You may be seeing Amos Oz, perhaps Israel’s most esteemed novelist, mentioned often these days. The celebration of his seventieth birthday this year is providing an occassion for reflection on his life’s work as novelist and public intellectual. In a recent New York Times’s article, Oz is quoted as relating both of his callings to [...]
Coalition plans interfaith campus in Omaha
Posted in Abrahamic Engagement, Religion in America on April 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, March 24, 2009 Rabbi Aryeh Azriel, center, is flanked by the Very Rev. Ernesto Medina, left, and Shakil Ahmed at an interfaith meeting in 2008 at his Temple Israel in Omaha. (Tri-Faith Initiative) –>NEW YORK (JTA) — An interfaith coalition in Nebraska is testing the viability of what is believed [...]
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