Interreligious Dialogue

The broadcast program Building Bridges, which is dedicated to intercultural harmony, is produced by San Francisco station WTPN. The following interview with Rabbi Burton L. Visotzky, Appleman Professor of Midrash and Interreligious Studies at JTS, Louis Stein Director of the Louis Finkstein Institute for Religious and Social Studies, and director of the Milstein Center for Interreligious Dialogue, covers his opinions on international interreligious engagement. He also discusses the JTS-Hartford Seminary partnership, which allows JTS students to attend Hartford Seminary classes. Hartford is a unique Christian seminary where approximately 30 percent of the student body is comprised of Muslims studying in the chaplaincy program.

An inter-religious discussion on the religious imperative for women to cover their head featuring Dr. Mary Boys, of Union Theological Seminary, Rori Picker Neiss of Yeshivat Maharat and Tayyibah Taylor of Azizah Magazine. Moderated by Dr. Carol Ingall of the Jewish Theological Seminary.

Part of the What to Wear event held at JTS on March 11th, 2012.

Reverend Dr. James Alexander Forbes Jr., senior minister emeritus of Riverside Church in New York City and president of the Healing of the Nations Foundation, delivers a lecture entitled “Preaching the Gospel of Martin Luther King Jr.”

A lecture by The Most Reverend Timothy M. Dolan, archbishop of New York, and president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.

Followed by a dialogue between Archbishop Dolan and JTS Chancellor Arnold M. Eisen.

GenNext panelists include Haroon Moghul (Muslim, PhD student at Columbia University and executive director of the Maydan Institute) and Rabbi Melissa Weintraub (Jewish, a JTS alum [The Rabbinical School, 2006], and cofounder and North American director of Encounter Programs.

Chancellor Arnold Eisen of The Jewish Theological Seminary joins New York City Archobishop Timothy M. Dolan, the leader of Archdiocese of New York City, at Fordham University to call for an active intra-religious agenda to combat the world’s ills.

Judaism and Islam in America Today- Assimilation and Authenticity. The participants in the roundtable include Arnold M. Eisen, chancellor of JTS; Sherman Jackson, professor of Islam at the University of Michigan; and Serene Jones, president of Union Theological Seminary. The moderator is Ingrid Mattson, president of the Islamic Society of North America.