ICJS to Partner with ICCI on I Am Joseph Your Brother Study Guide

I Am Joseph Your Brother will be the center of a new ICJS project with the Interreligious Coordinating Council in Israel. The partnership and project were conceived as a result of our February showing of the film to an invited audience. The enthusiastic response suggested to ICJS staff and the film's producer Ron Kronish that it might be a very useful teaching/ learning tool if accompanied by a study guide. Rabbi Kronish and the ICCI staff will write an overview of the film, while the ICJS will put together study questions, supplementary re-source materials, and suggestions for use. A group of Jewish and Christian scholars under the direction of Rosann Catalano, Chris Leighton, and Charles Arian began this work during a retreat on May 28-29, 2002 at the Pearlstone Conference and Retreat Center. The ICJS staff will edit the materials from the retreat, add the Kronish narrative and graphics, and return it to the scholars for additional work. Publication of this study is planned for January 2003.

National Jewish Scholars Project Launches Hillel Connection

The ICJS and Hillel's Joseph Meyerhoff Center for Jewish Learning hosted a by-invitation-only conference May 19-20, 2002. The conference brought together Hillel directors, aca-demics, and Christian campus ministers to discuss the intellectual and religious climate on campus following the tragic events of 9/11. Among those who participated were: Dr. Peter Ochs, Bronfman Professor of Modern Judaic Studies at the University of Virginia; Dr. Tikva Frymer-Kensky of the Univer-sity of Chicago Divinity School; Pulitzer Prize winning author Taylor Branch; Rabbi Larry Edwards, Associate National Direc-tor of Interreligious Affairs of AJC; Lee M. Hendler, trustee and author of The Year Mom Got Religion; the Rev. Dr. Kelly Denton-Borhaug, Chaplain of Goucher College; and Hillel Directors from Princeton and Harvard. Participants began with a discussion of societal and campus trends that provide the context for Jewish education and Christian-Jewish dialogue and text study. They then explored educational materials such as Irreconcilable Differences? A Learning Resource for Jews and Christians and discussed the potential impact of these materials on college campuses.

Although this conference was not open to the general public, the ICJS anticipates that it will serve as a model for future Hillel conversations throughout the United States.