Our rabbinical college, RRC, launched a new website this week, MostJewish.com. In addition to a light hearted game exploring Jewish identity, the website also includes a blog with room for more probing explorations. The editor of the blog, Rabbi Deborah Glanzberg-Krainin, launched the conversation with a post on being a Jew at Christmas. A wonderful [...]
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Educating Leaders for a Multi-Religious World
Posted in Abrahamic Engagement, Jewish- Muslim Engagement, Jewish-Christian Engagement, tagged andover newton seminary, diana eck, hebrew college rabbinical school, interfaith education, Multifaith Education, muslim american leadership, religious hybridity on April 29, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Last week, I had the privilege of attending a wonderful conference, “Educating Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Leaders for Service in a Multi-Religious World: The American Seminary Context.” The college was hosted by Andover Newton Theological School, Boston Theological Institute, and Hebrew College. To read an overview of the conference written by Joshua Stanton, editor of [...]
Moshe Halbertal weighs in on Goldstone Report
Posted in Jewish- Muslim Engagement, Jewish-Christian Engagement, Middle East, tagged gaza, goldstone report, military ethics, moshe halbertal on January 29, 2010 | 2 Comments »
A leading Israeli scholar who helped write Israel’s Military Code of Ethics, Professor Moshe Halbertal, has weighed in on the controversy surrounding the Goldstone Report. You can read about his views here. The Goldstone Report has been a subject of conversation in interfaith gatherings between Jews and Christians and Jews and Muslims since it was [...]
Abrahamic Interfaith Dialogue that “Gets to the Point”
Posted in Abrahamic Engagement, Jewish- Muslim Engagement, Jewish-Christian Engagement, Middle East, Religion in America, tagged Abrahamic Engagement, interfaith work, interreligious engagement, jewish christian dialogue, jewish muslim dialogue, jewish muslim relations, multifaith relations, Muslims in America; ISNA; on November 24, 2009 | 1 Comment »
An article in the New York Times today introduces the reader to three clergy- and to three friends- who are working to “increase interfaith understanding” not just through seeking out commonalities, but through respecting difference- even as they broach difficult issues, such as Israel.
The Search for the ‘Why’ of Fort Hood: What would Reinhold Niebuhr Say?
Posted in Jewish- Muslim Engagement, Jewish-Christian Engagement, Religion in America, tagged david brooks, fort hood, radical islam, reinhold niebuhr on November 12, 2009 | 3 Comments »
On November 10, David Brooks of The New York Times, weighed in on the Fort Hood tragedy with a column entitled “The Rush to Therapy.” As often, Brooks sounded some important themes that resonate with me and then, at the crucial moment, went wildly off track. In this piece, he makes the altogether helpful point that [...]
