Category: Online Interreligious Events

The Judaic Studies Department at Brooklyn College invites you to join us on Wednesday, March 27th for the Annual Frances Haidt Memorial Lecture In 2017 Charlottesville, antisemitism and anti-Black racism converged as white supremacists, in a highly choreographed and violent protest against the removal of a statue honoring a Confederate general, carried Confederate flags and chanted “Jews …

Reckoning with the Roots of Antisemitism and Racism, Magda Teter Read More »

As part of the Center for Christian-Jewish Learning’s Jewish-Christian Lecture Series, Prof. Matthew Goff will present his lecture in Prof. Yonder Gillihan’s’ course “Early Christianity in Its Jewish Context.” This lecture is open to the public. Relatively unknown to most readers of scripture, most of 2 Esdras (also called 4 Ezra) is a Jewish apocalyptic text …

The Book of 2 Esdras: Jewish, Christian, Both, Neither Read More »

2024 J. B. and Maurice C. Shapiro Annual Lecture During World War II, approximately 1,000 Christian chaplains served the German military. What role did these Catholic priests and Protestant pastors play in the Holocaust? Drawing on a wide array of sources—chaplains’ letters, military reports, Jewish testimonies, photographs, and popular culture—this lecture offers insight into how …

A Priest in a Nazi Collar: German Military Chaplains and the Holocaust Read More »

Invite you to our weekly gathering, continuing our conversations on The Dignity of the Human Person: From Ideal to Realisation Rabbi Art Green in conversation with Peta Jones Pellach. Rabbi Art Green is an American scholar of Jewish mysticism and Neo-Hasidic theologian. He was a founding dean of the non-denominational rabbinical program at Hebrew College in Boston. Followed by …

The Friends Across Faiths Initiative and Praying Together in Jerusalem  Read More »

A special episode of the Interfaith Talks initiative will be taking place at Magdala. We are delighted to be joined by an Ecumenical panel of guest speakers, for a discussion on the role and reality of Interfaith relations in The Holy Land. Each of the guests for this special episode are Christian community leaders in …

INTERFAITH TALKS – MEETING AT MAGDALA Read More »

Join the Rossing Center for Education and Dialogue for a special webinar on “Peacebuilding Amidst Ongoing Violence” featuring Rev. Dr. Gary Mason, Founder of ‘Rethinking Conflict.’ We continue our Webinar series* focusing on peacebuilding and dialogue through difficult times. In this webinar, Dr. Mason will share insights from his extensive experience in conflict transformation, peacebuilding, …

Peacebuilding Amidst Ongoing Violence Read More »

We are deeply honoured to welcome Professor Lawrence H. Schiffman, Global Distinguished Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies at the Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies, New York University, USA, to lead a session of the International Interfaith Reading Group on Manuscripts in Interfaith Contexts. PLEASE REGISTER HERE Topic: The Dead Sea Scrolls and Jewish-Christian Dialogue …

The Dead Sea Scrolls and Jewish-Christian Dialogue Read More »

St. Joseph’s Univ. Institute for Jewish-Catholic Relations In 1545, Michelangelo completed one of the most famous works of European art: a massive marble sculpture of Moses holding the tablets of the Ten Commandments. Yet the muscular figure also has the strange feature of horns protruding from Moses’ head. Their history is complex, entangled with the …

From Distinction to Discrimination: The Fraught History of Moses’ Horns Read More »

Did Paul break from Judaism to start a new religion called Christianity? For most readers through history, the answer to this question is a resounding Yes! But a careful reading of his letters in their historical context demonstrates the thoroughgoing Jewishness of this oft-misunderstood ancient Jew. Center for Christian–Jewish Learning at Boston College Matthew Thiessen (PhD, …

A Jewish Paul: Restoring the Apostle Paul to His Roots Read More »