Category: Online Interreligious Events

The Center for Christian-Jewish Learning at Boston College2024 Corcoran Chair Conference Within the polemical inter-religious context of the Middle Ages, Christian, Jewish, and Muslim thinkers developed systematic and sophisticated ways of comparing their own faiths with those of others, including non-monotheists. Although each thinker maintained that his own community’s system of belief and practice was …

RANKING RELIGIONS: Taxonomic Comparison in Medieval Christian, Jewish, and Islamic Thought Read More »

Institute for Islamic, Christian, Jewish Studies (ICJS) A Sacred Argument: Dispatches from the Christian, Jewish, and Muslim Encounter is a memoir written by ICJS founding Executive Director Christopher M. Leighton, who retired in 2018. In this work, he recounts his friendship and collaboration with the late Rabbi Joel Zaiman, who was a driving force in …

A Sacred Argument: Dispatches from the Christian, Jewish, and Muslim Encounter Read More »

A Book Event for Shai Held’s Judaism Is About Love The Torah contains three great love commandments: love of God, love of neighbor, and love of the stranger/sojourner.  Love of the stranger/sojourner, repeated for emphasis in both Leviticus and Deuteronomy, represents one of the Torah’s greatest moral revolutions. This event will be a dialogue between Rabbi …

Turning Suffering Into Love: The Bible’s Moral Revolution — A Dialogue between Shai Held and Stephen Pope Read More »

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 »