Category: Online Interreligious Events

Boston College’s Center for Christian-Jewish Learning and co-sponsored by the Jewish Studies Program. In the 1960s Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik refused to engage in Jewish-Christian theological dialogue, publishing an essay titled “Confrontation” in which he presented his reasoning behind his stance. Since this time, however, more and more Orthodox Jews—including some of his own disciples—have …

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The Center for Jewish Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center presents: Definitions of Antisemitism: A Roundtable Discussion Please join us for two online roundtables on the current debate over the definition of antisemitism and its implications for activists, politicians, university officials, and the general public. The first discussion, on September 19, will feature participants in …

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Sarah Bernstein and John Munayer in conversation with Miroslav Volf. What is the relationship between memory and violence? How do we remember rightly and how do we remember wrongly? And how does memory play a role in the cycle of violence? These questions are just some of what the Rossing Center’s webinar series addresses in …

Remembering Rightly, Remembering Wrongly:The Role of Memory in Breaking the Cycle of Violence Read More »

With Dr. Amy Weiss, Director of the Maurice Greenberg Center for Judaic Studies and Assistant Professor of Judaic Studies and History, University of Hartford   JTS  summer learning series JTS Alumni in the World: Scholarship and Impact  In 1977, the American Jewish Committee awarded Billy Graham its first National Interreligious Award in recognition of the evangelist’s support of Israel and …

American Jewish-Evangelical Interfaith Relations and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Read More »

Cordula Heupts über die “Erfüllungszitate” Antisemitismuskritische Bibelauslegungen Das christliche triumphalistische Verständnis der so genannten Erfüllungsformeln im Matthäusevangelium (wie in Mt 2,15) hat eine lange Wirkungsgeschichte. Danach seien die Verheißungen des Alten Testaments durch und in Christus so erfüllt worden, dass sie abgegolten sind. Die schematische Folge von „Verheißung“ und „Erfüllung“ wird heute noch abwertend für …

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Evangelische Akademie zu Berlin Das Bild Jesu als Kinderfreund ist mehr als 300 Jahre alt. Im Lauf der Zeit wurde es judenfeindlich, im 20. Jahrhundert auch rassistisch-antisemitisch aufgeladen. Wie kam es zu der auch heute noch verbreiteten Ansicht, der Kinderfreund Jesus sei das große Gegenmodell zu einem kinderfeindlichen Judentum? Welche “Argumente“ wurden dafür erfunden? Wie …

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OXFORD INTERFAITH FORUM — Book Launch This new and revised edition of Christian–Jewish Relations 1000–1300 expands its survey of medieval Christian–Jewish relations in England, Spain, France and Germany with new material on canon law, biblical exegesis and Christian–Jewish polemics, along with an updated Further Reading section. Prof Anna Sapir Abulafia’s balanced yet humane account analyses the theological, …

Christian-Jewish Relations 1000-1300: Jews in the Service of Medieval Christendom Read More »

The Oxford Interfaith Forum is deeply honoured to welcome Professor George E. Demacopoulos, Fr. John Meyendorff & Patterson Family Chair of Orthodox Christian Studies and Professor of Theology at Fordham University, USA, to lead a session of the Eastern Christianity in Interfaith Contexts Reading Group. The oldest surviving Christian hymns designed exclusively for Holy Week are a set …

The Origins of the First Anti-Jewish Good Friday Hymns Read More »

American Jewish University, Summer Book Talks Join Author Talia Carner and AJU’s Michael Berenbaum as they dive into her newest novel, The Boy with the Star Tattoo. Carner’s novel delves into the stories of Jewish children hidden in Christian homes during the Holocaust, and the postwar efforts by the Youth Aliyah movement to find and rescue these orphans. Carner and Berenbaum …

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