What We Do
Public Programs
Event: Public Program
Title: "Art, Artifacts, and the World of the Bible:
A Guided Tour of the Walters' Ancient World Collection"
Facilitator: The Rev. John E. Roberts
Date: May - June 2007
Event: Public Lecture Series
Title: "What Jews & Christians Need to Know
About Islam"
Speakers:
Dr. Ingrid Mattson
Dr. John L. Esposito
Dr. Fouad Ajami
Dr. Sayyid M. Syeed
Date: April - May 2007
Event: Spring Public Program
Title: "Disarming Texts: Jews and Christians Reflect
on How Their Minds Have Been Changed"
Speakers:
Walter Brueggemann, Ph.D.
Peter Ochs, Ph.D.
Respondents:
Dr. Rosann M. Catalano
Dr. Christopher M. Leighton
Rabbi Joel H. Zaiman
Date: April 18, 2007
Event: Winter Public Program
Topic: "When Those We Love Become Strangers:
Medicine and Religion Confront Alzheimer's Disease"
Speakers:
Marilyn Albert, Ph.D.
Karen Kauffman, Ph.D., R.N.
Respondents:
Rosann M. Catalano, Ph.D.
Rabbi Joel H. Zaiman
Date: December 7, 2006
Event: Fall Public Program
Title: The Bernard Manekin Inaugural Lecture:
"Faith and Democracy in a Violent World"
Speaker: Taylor Branch
Respondents:
Rabbi Mark Loeb
Senior Rabbi, Beth El Congregation
Dr. Douglas I. Miles
Bishop and Senior Pastor,
Koinonia Baptist Church
Date: September 18, 2006
Event: Spring Public Program
Topic: "The Longest Goodbye -- Medical and Religious Responses to Alzheimer's Disease"
Presenters:
The Rev. Hank Dunn
Rabbi Steve Schwartz, Beth El Congregation
Date: February 16, 2006
Event: Text study and discussion
Topic: "The Longest Goodbye -- Medical and Religious Responses to Alzheimer's Disease," Part II
Speakers for May 18:
Dr. Marilyn Albert
Director of the Division of Cognitive Neuroscience,
Dept. of Neurology, Johns Hopkins School of Medi-
cine and Co-Director of the Johns Hopkins Alzhei-
mer's' Disease Research Center
Dr. Raymond DePaulo
Henry Phipps Professor and Chairman, Department
of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns
Hopkins Hospital
Dr. Karen Kauffman
Associate Professor in Nursing and Coordinator of
the Graduate Nursing Program, University of
Maryland
Facilitators for May 25:
Dr. Christopher Leighton, ICJS
Dr. Rosann Catalano, ICJS
Rabbi Floyd Herman
Rabbi Emeritus, Har Sinai Congregation
The Rev. John Roberts
Pastor Emeritus, Woodbrook Baptist Church
Dates: May 18, 25, 2006
Event: Fall Public Program
Title: Before and Beyond Nostra Aetate: The
Future of Roman Catholic, Protestant and
Jewish Encounters
Presenters:
Dr. Edward Kessler, Centre for Jewish-Christian
Learning, Cambridge, England
Dr. Mary Aquin O'Neill, Mount Saint Agnes
Theological Center for Women
Dr. Christopher Leighton, ICJS
Rabbi Joel Zaiman, Rabbi Emeritus
Chizuk Amuno Congregation
Date: November 17, 2005
Event: Public Lecture
Title: For the Sake of Heaven and Earth:
The New Encounter between Judaism
and Christianity
Speaker: Rabbi Irving Greenberg
Date: February 8, 2005
Event: Panel Discussion
Title: "Cracking the Da Vinci Code:
Four Perspectives on a Literary Phenomenon"
Hosts:
Dr. Gary Vikan,
Director of the Walters Art Museum
Dr. Christopher Leighton,
Executive Director, ICJS
Moderator:
Sanford J. Ungar,
President of Goucher College
Panelists:
Dr. Jonathan Pevsner,
Expert on the life and work of da Vinci
Richard Leson,
Expert on the Knights Templar
Dr. Rosann Catalano,
ICJS Roman Catholic Scholar
Dr. Gail Husch,
Professor of Art History, Goucher College
Collaborating Institutions:
The Institute for Christian & Jewish Studies
Goucher College
The Walters Art Museum
Date: October 23, 2004
Event: Spring Public Lecture
Topic: "When Religion Becomes Evil"
Speaker: Dr. Charles Kimball
Date: April 20, 2004
Event: Public Lecture
Title: Jews, Christians, and God's Word
Speaker: Thomas Cahill
Date: March 6, 2003
Event: For the Sake of Heaven,
A Conversation in Honor of Rabbi Joel Zaiman
Speakers:
Dr. Christopher Leighton,
Executive Director, ICJS
Rabbi Gustav Buchdahl,
Rabbi Emeritus, Temple Emanuel
Dr. Peter Ochs,
Edgar Bronfman Professor of
Modern Jewish Studies, University of Virginia
Moderator: Dr. Rosann Catalano
Date: February 5, 2003
Event: Islam and the Jewish-Christian Encounter
Title: "Is Religious Faith Compatible with Democracy?"
Speaker: Dr. Sulayman Nyang
Respondents:
Rabbi Charles Arian
Taylor Branch
Date: December 12, 2001
Event: Islam and the Jewish-Christian Encounter
Title: "What Does God Require of Us?"
Speaker: Dr. Sulayman Nyang
Respondents:
Dr. Rosann Catalano
Rabbi Nina Beth Cardin
Date: November 27, 2001
Program: Jews and Christians in Antioch
Presenters:
The Rev. John Roberts, ICJS Program Consultant
June Heintz, docent, Baltimore Museum of Art
Date: October 24, 2001
Event: Public Symposium on Bach's St. John Passion
Title: "When the Words Hurt: The Gospel of John, Bach's Music, and Religious Intolerance"
Presenters:
Dr. Paula Fredriksen,
William Goodwin Aurelio Professor of the
Appreciation of Scripture, Boston University
Dr. Michael Marissen,
Associate Professor of Music, Swarthmore College
Dr. Christopher Leighton,
Executive Director, ICJS
Mr. Tom Hall,
Music Director, Baltimore Choral Arts Society
Date: November 2, 2000
Event: Presentation of the National Jewish Scholars Project and the Statement Dabru Emet
Presenters:
Dr. Tikva Frymer-Kensky,
Professor of Hebrew Bible at the Divinity School,
University of Chicago
Dr. David Novak,
J. Richard and Dorothy Shiff Chair of
Jewish Studies, University of Toronto
Dr. Peter Ochs,
Edgar Bronfman Professor of Modern
Judaic Studies, University of Virginia
Rabbi David Sandmel,
ICJS Jewish Scholar
Dr. Michael Signer,
Abrams Professor of Jewish Thought and Culture,
Department of Theology, University of Notre Dame
Date: September 11, 2000
Event: The Culman Series
Title: "Ancient Treasures, Modern Scripts"
Speakers:
Rabbi Joel H. Zaiman,
Senior Rabbi, Chizuk Amuno Congregation
The Rev. Flo Ledyard,
Associate Faculty, College of Preachers,
Washington, D.C.
Rabbi Mitchell Wohlberg,
Senior Rabbi, Beth Tfiloh
The Rev. Robert F. Leavitt,
President of St. Mary's Seminary & University
Rabbi Marc Margolius,
Congregation Beth Am Israel,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The Rev. Michael Curry,
Senior Pastor, St. James Episcopal Church
Date: November 1999
Program: "Pledging Allegiances: Jews and Christians Rethinking Their Obligations to God and Country"
Speakers:
Dr. David Little,
United States Institute of Peace,
Washington, D.C.
Dr. David Ellenson,
Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of
Religion, Los Angeles, California
Date: May 18, 1999
Program: "Hope and Resistance among Jews and African American Christians: The Message and Music of our Religious Communities"
Presenters:
The Rev. Bradford Braxton,
Douglas Memorial Community Church
Rabbi Mark Loeb,
Beth El Congregation
The Choirs of Douglas Memorial Community Church
and Beth El Congregation
Date: November 5, 1998
Sponsor: Charles and Gail Yumkas in Honor of their Father’s Special Birthday
Event: The Second Dr. A. Vanlier Hunter, Jr. Memorial Lecture
Topic: "Alternative Visions of the End"
Speaker: Dr. Walter Brueggemann, William Marcellus McPheeters Professor of Old Testament at
Columbia Theological Seminary
Date: April 2, 1998
Program: "Images of the End" (lecture and slide presentation)
Speaker: Dr. William Noll, Assistant Curator of Manuscripts and Rare Books, Walters Art Gallery
Date: December 9, 1997
Program: "In the End is the Beginning: Jewish and Christian Visions of the Future"
Speakers:
Dr. Katheryn Pfisterer Darr,
The School of Theology, Boston University
Dr. Neil Gillman,
Jewish Theological Seminary
Date: November 3, 1997
Event: Tenth-Anniversary Celebration of ICJS: "An Evening with Bill Moyers"
Topic: The PBS series, Genesis: A Living Conversation
Speaker: Bill Moyers
Moderator: Taylor Branch, Pulitzer Prize-winning author
Date: September 25, 1996
Sponsors: Bibelot and Maryland Public Television
Program: "Exploring Our Traditions: An Interfaith Conversation" (commemorating the 125th Anniversary of Chizuk Amuno Congregation)
Speakers and Topics:
Dr. Mary Boys and Dr. Nancy Fuchs-Kreimer,
"Will Our Traditions Outlive Us?"
Dr. Anthony Cook and Rabbi Daniel Lehmann,
"Religion and Ethnicity: Creative and Destructive
Combinations?"
Dr. Christopher Leighton and Rabbi Joel Zaiman,
"Does God Play Favorites?"
Rabbi Gustav Buchdahl and The Rev. Carl Edwards,
"Is Death the Last Word?"
Rabbi Nina Beth Cardin and The Rev. Roger Gench,
"Right and Wrong: How Do We Decide?"
Dates: February - March 1996
Sponsor: Mercantile Safe Deposit and Trust Company
Program: "Confronting Abraham: Jewish and Christian Reflections on the Binding of Isaac"
Speakers:
Dr. Robin Jensen,
Assistant Professor of Church History,
Andover Newton Theological School
Dr. Steven Fine,
Asst. Professor of Rabbinic Literature and History,
Baltimore Hebrew University
Date: October 19, 1995
Event: The First Dr. A. Vanlier Hunter, Jr. Memorial Lecture
Topic: "Speaking After the Whirlwind: the Legacy of Job"
Speakers:
Dr. Stephen J. Vicchio,
Professor of Philosophy,
College of Notre Dame of Maryland
Dr. Bruce Zuckerman,
Associate Professor in the School of Religion,
University of Southern California
Date: May 1, 1995
Program: "Forging Community: Three Responses to the Challenges of Ethnic and Religious Diversity"
Speakers:
Dr. Arnold Eisen,
Stanford University
Dr. C. G. Newsome,
Dean of Howard University Divinity School
Mr. Gustav Niebuhr,
The New York Times
Date: March 30, 1995
Sponsor: Supported by the Maryland Humanities Council
Event: Symposium presented by The Jerusalem Foundation, Inc.
Topic: "Jerusalem: At the Crossroads; Jewish, Christian and Muslim Perspectives on the Holy City"
Speakers:
Shoshana Cardin,
National Chair of the Jerusalem 3000 Celebration
Mahmoud Ayoub,
Professor of Islamic Studies, Temple University
Rabbi Reuven Kimelman,
Associate Professor of Talmud and Midrash,
Brandeis University
George Weigel
President of the Ethics and Public Policy Center
Robert L. Wilken,
Professor of the History of Christianity,
University of Virginia
Date: May 5, 1994
Program Coordinators: Baltimore Jewish Council, Center for Public Policy of B’nai B’rith, and the Institute for Christian & Jewish Studies
Program: "Reclaiming the Depths: Jewish and Christian Reflections on the Possibilities of the Spiritual Life"
Speakers: Rabbi Lawrence Kushner; Dr. Mary Jo Leddy
Date: March 9, 1994
Program: "Post-Holocaust Reflections: Women, Suffering, and the Problem of Evil"
Speakers: Dr. Carol Rittner, R.S.M.; Blu Greenberg
Date: November 11, 1993
Program: "Forgiveness After Auschwitz? Is it Necessary? Is it Possible?"
Speakers:
Rabbi Harold M. Schulweis,
Congregation Valley Beth Shalom,
Encino, California
Dr. John K. Roth,
Russell K. Pitzer Professor of Philosophy,
Claremont McKenna College
Date: November 18, 1992
Event: Lecture: Presentation Before the Performance of Bach’s Passion of St. John
Speakers:
Dr. Christopher M. Leighton,
Institute for Christian & Jewish Studies
Dr. Eileen Soskin,
Peabody Conservatory
Date: April 5, 1992
Event: Dialogue in cooperation with the General Assembly of the Council of Jewish Federations
Topic: "Discovering the Other: Interfaith Reflections"
Speakers:
Bishop Krister Stendahl,
Distinguished Professor of Christian Studies at
Brandeis University, former Dean of the Harvard
Divinity School, and former Bishop of Sweden
Rabbi Irving Greenberg,
President and Co-founder of the National Jewish
Center for Learning and Leadership
Date: November 21, 1991
Event: Rabbi Jacob Agus Lecture
Topic: "‘Liberal’ and Mainstream Religious Denominations in Judaism and Christianity: Are They Dying? Can They Survive the ‘Conservative’ Tide?"
Speakers:
Rabbi Tzvi Marx,
Associate Director of the Shalom Hartman
Institute in Jerusalem
Dr. Monika Hellwig,
Landegger Professor of Theology,
Georgetown University
Date: September 19, 1991
Program: "From Disputation to Dialogue: Stories of the Interfaith Encounter"
Speakers:
Rabbi Eugene Borowitz,
Sigmund L. Falk Distinguished Professor of
Education and Jewish Religious Thought,
The New York School of Hebrew Union College –
Jewish Institute of Religion
Dr. Martin E. Marty,
Fairfax M. Cone Distinguished Service Professor,
University of Chicago
Date: May 9, 1991
Program: "Religious Intolerance in Western Culture, A Jewish-Christian Dialogue on Bach’s Saint Matthew Passion" (Symposium)
Participants:
Dr. Jaroslav Pelikan,
Sterling Professor of History, Yale University
Dr. Eric Chafe,
Professor of Music, Brandeis University
Dr. Robert Bergman,
Art Historian and Director, Walters Art Gallery
Date: April 25, 1991
Sponsor: In cooperation with the Baltimore Choral Arts Society and the Walters Art Gallery
Program: "Broken Promises? Christian Mission and Jews"
Speakers:
The Rev. Dr. Paul M. van Buren,
Visiting Fellow at Heidelberg University and the
Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem, Scholar-
Advisor to the ICJS
Rabbi Nancy Fuchs-Kreimer, Ph.D.,
Director of the Religious Studies Program of the
Reconstructionist Rabbinical College
Date: December 10, 1990
Program: "Whose Truth? Whose Justice? Whose Certainty?: the Claims and Power of Judaism and Christianity in a World of Many Religions"
Speakers:
Rabbi David Hartman,
Founder and Director of the Shalom Hartman
Institute in Jerusalem
Dr. Walter Harrelson,
Distinguished Professor of the Old Testament,
Divinity School, Vanderbilt University
Moderator: Dr. Eugene Fisher, Executive Director, Secretariat for Catholic-Jewish Relations, U.S. Council of Bishops
Date: May 1, 1990
Program: "The Possibilities and Limits of Dialogue with Christians"
Speaker: Rabbi Marc Tanenbaum, Consultant to the American Jewish Committee and former Director of International Relations for the American Jewish Committee
Date: January 11, 1990
Program: "The Challenge of New Testament Scholarship: Neutralizing the Polemics"
Speaker: Dr. Norman Beck, Texas Lutheran College
Date: Spring 1990
Program: "Paul: the Father of Christian Anti-Judaism?"
Speaker: Dr. John G. Gager, Professor of Religion, Princeton University
Date: November 15, 1989
Program: "Jewish Perspectives on Jesus’ Trial and Execution"
Speaker: Dr. Michael J. Cook, Professor of Intertestamental and Early Christian Literatures at Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion, Cincinnati Campus
Date: April 13, 1989
Program: "Jewish-Christian Relations: What is at Stake?"
Speakers:
Rabbi Irving Greenberg,
President and Co-founder of the National Jewish
Center on Learning and Leadership
Dr. Walter Harrelson,
Distinguished Professor of the Old Testament,
Divinity School, Vanderbilt University
Date: September 29, 1988
Program: "The Gospel According to St. John: Coming to Terms with Anti-Judaic Polemic"
Performer: Paul Alexander
Speaker: Dr. Daniel Harrington
Topic: Implications for Christians and Jews
Date: January 24, 1988
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