Category: Online Interreligious Events

JCJCR was established in 2004 to meet the challenges posed by the complex and special encounter between the Jewish majority population and the Christian Arab minority in the Holy Land. JCJCR runs a wide range of courses, conferences, seminars and lectures on topics such as Christian communities in the Holy Land, local Jewish-Christian relations and …

The Increasing Hostility towards Christians in the Holy Land: Voices from the Field Read More »

Dr Aho Shemunkasho, Director of the MA in Syriac Theology in Paris-Lodron University of Salzburg, Austria, will lead a session of the International Interfaith Reading Group on Eastern Christianity in Interfaith Contexts. Title: Resurrection of the human body according to John of Dara’s Mimro I:4: “The bodies, which dissolve and change their shape after the departure of the …

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This image-rich talk will introduce some of the many examples of how symbols in the visual art of the Abrahamic traditions draw from a pagan vocabulary that precedes all of them as well as from each other; how they converge and diverge across history and geography; and how they continue to appear in the modern and contemporary art of a world that often defines itself to be secular.

The Dead Sea Scrolls at 75: The Texts, Their Contexts, and the Coalescence of Jewish and Christian Scholarship

Sunday, July 2nd, 11 am Chicago time, 5 pm UK time, 7 pm Israel time RegistrationWe are delighted to announce our next session of Praying Together in Jerusalem in the form of a webinar, held in conjunction with the Parliament of Religions, in advance of the upcoming Parliament meeting in Chicago in August. Climate Change …

Climate Repentance – Elijah School and Parliaments of World Religions Read More »

Judaism and Christianity have had a long and entwined history ever since the early Christian church emerged from first-century Judaism. Today some Christians also identify as being Jewish (a.k.a., Messianic Jews), and many Christians, known as Christian Zionists, support the modern state of Israel for theological reasons. This course will discuss the background and present-day complexities of these Christian identifications with (or attachments to) Judaism.

Panelists: Susannah Heschel (Dartmouth College), Brian Robinette (Boston College), and Joanna Kline (Gordon College) In our time when productivity is equated with virtue, the practice of keeping Sabbath has emerged as a strategy for achieving work-life balance, as a kind of “wellness program” without connection to religious meaning and without recognition of the profound traditions and …

Sabbath as Gift and Command: Jewish and Christian Perspectives Read More »

Miriam Goldstein will present “The Bible in Baghdad: A Medieval Karaite Interprets Genesis” at the Tauber Institute’s Jewish Studies Colloquium The next meeting of the Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry’s Jewish Studies Colloquium will feature Miriam Goldstein of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem presenting the paper “The Bible in Baghdad: A Medieval Karaite Interprets Genesis.” Registration …

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One feature of medieval Jewish thought, in contrast with rabbinic thought, is the recognition of meaningful distinctions among non-Jewish religious groups, which ones were “closer to” and “further from” Jewish doctrine and practice. This talk will address the emergence of this mode of thought as well as some of the formulations of specific thinkers such …

Jonathan Decter, “Ranking Religions in Medieval Jewish Thought” Read More »