Category: Online Interreligious Events

In this talk, Matthew Bolton will explore how UK anti-discrimination law has constructed Jewish identity as a mode of ‘ethnicity.’ He will argue that the structure of law encourages the essentialisation or dehistoricisation of Jewish identity. This hinders the law’s ability to grasp the role played by the concept of a Jewish state in the …

Antisemitism, Israel and the limits of anti-discrimination law (UK context) Read More »

Boston College’s Center for Christian-Jewish Learning’s 12th Annual John Paul II Lecture in Christian-Jewish Relations Willie James Jennings, Yale University Jews and Christians are joined by a shared recognition that we are created by the same God. Yet that recognition has never been allowed to shape our moral and social imaginations. What should this shared …

“To Touch the World Together: Why Jews and Christians Need a New Doctrine of Creation” Read More »

Within Judaism? Within Second Temple Judaism?  Is the NT a corpus of “Jewish” texts? An online symposium presented by the Enoch Seminar: Second Temple Judaism & Christian Origins The Symposium is an opportunity to convene all international specialists who have been working or are interested in this new Perspective. The goal is to discuss, theoretically …

The New Testament within Judaism: Read More »

Alan Shore Presented by Center for Christian-Jewish Learning, Theology, Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences This recently published work tells the story of the dawn of a new chapter in Jewish-Christian relations in America through the lens of four widely publicized and well-attended rallies at Madison Square Garden during the Nazi Era. These rallies brought together a …

Uncommon Allies: American Jews and Christians Uniting Against Hitler Read More »

Professor Laurel Leff will deliver the Genevieve Geller Wyner Annual Lecture at the the Wyner Family Jewish Heritage Center at New England Historic Genealogical Society Join us for the Genevieve Geller Wyner Annual Lecture, in which Professor Laurel Leff, the JHC’s 2024 Genevieve Geller Wyner Research Fellow, will explore the tensions between Catholic and Jewish …

Catholic and Jewish Communities’ Reactions to Antisemitic Violence in Wartime Boston Read More »

Dietrich Bonhoeffer has long been celebrated as a powerful symbol of moral resistance to the Nazi regime, with his legacy claimed by Christians across the religious spectrum, from liberal Protestants to Christian Nationalists. Historically, though, he was not a major figure. What do his writings mean in that context? Victoria J. Barnett, Ph.D. is one of …

Unpacking Bonhoeffer’s Legacy Today Read More »

In this Zoom panel discussion, field leaders will report back from a major international conference on new directions and challenges in research and pedagogy about antisemitism, in response to new needs created by a rapidly changing academic and political environment. Antisemitism was by no means a neglected topic in Jewish studies prior to October 7, …

The Future of Antisemitism Research Read More »

Keren Friedman-Peleg, The College of Management-Academic Studies In this online lecture, an anthropologist of mental health in Israel will explore the cultural work of those who experienced the violence of October 7 inside their homes and in their communities, aimed at making sense of the worst massacre of Jews in generations. Based on in-depth interviews …

The Desecrated and the Sacred: Making Sense of October 7 Read More »

This talk examines illiberal Jewish and Christian women influencers who focus on health and wellness. Using digital ethnography and interviews, Professor Fader explores how influencers inspire each other to elaborate religious women’s authority beyond rabbinic leaders or husbands, creating change while imagining a public space for religion in the United States today.  Ayala Fader, Fordham …

Women Wellness Influencers and Illiberal Religions Read More »