A Jesuit priest and a Medical Mission Sister, two scholars of Islam wearing hijabs, a healthy dose of rabbis, rabbinical students and ministers, and assorted colleagues and friends gathered to hear a learned historian who is a former college president and a Presbyterian elder…… We were there as part of our ongoing salon series, Praying [...]
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Moshe Halbertal weighs in on Goldstone Report
Posted in Jewish- Muslim Engagement, Jewish-Christian Engagement, Middle East, tagged gaza, goldstone report, military ethics, moshe halbertal on January 29, 2010 | 2 Comments »
A leading Israeli scholar who helped write Israel’s Military Code of Ethics, Professor Moshe Halbertal, has weighed in on the controversy surrounding the Goldstone Report. You can read about his views here. The Goldstone Report has been a subject of conversation in interfaith gatherings between Jews and Christians and Jews and Muslims since it was [...]
Abrahamic Interfaith Dialogue that “Gets to the Point”
Posted in Abrahamic Engagement, Jewish- Muslim Engagement, Jewish-Christian Engagement, Middle East, Religion in America, tagged Abrahamic Engagement, interfaith work, interreligious engagement, jewish christian dialogue, jewish muslim dialogue, jewish muslim relations, multifaith relations, Muslims in America; ISNA; on November 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
An article in the New York Times today introduces the reader to three clergy- and to three friends- who are working to “increase interfaith understanding” not just through seeking out commonalities, but through respecting difference- even as they broach difficult issues, such as Israel.
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 [...]