What We Do
Special Programs
Mini-Courses
Clergy Colloquia
Preaching Colloquia
ICJS Scripture Forum
Jewish & Christian Educators Study Group
Genesis Project
Bridging the Generations
Congregational Project
Other ICJS Projects
Beit Midrash Programs
Title: Seeing God in Torah
ICJS Mini-Courses
Presenter: Rabbi Joel H. Zaiman,
ICJS Consultant and Jewish Scholar
Date: September 2006
Title: Interpreting Difficult Texts
Presenters:
Rosann M. Catalano, ICJS Assoc. Director/
Roman Catholic Scholar
Janis L. Koch, ICJS Associate Scholar
Date: March - April 2006
Title: Teaching Women
Presenter: Dr. Rosann M. Catalano,
ICJS Assoc. Director/Roman Catholic Scholar
Date: September 2005
Title: Rescuing Romans 9-11
Presenter: Janis L. Koch, ICJS Associate Scholar
Date: March 2005
Title: When Violence is a Virtue
Presenters:
Rabbi Charles L. Arian, ICJS Jewish Scholar
Dr. Rosann Catalano, ICJS Roman Catholic Scholar
Dr. Christopher M. Leighton, ICJS Executive Director
Date: September 2003
Title: Rescuing Paul
Presenter: Janis L. Koch, ICJS Associate Scholar
Date: October - November 2002
Title: Art & the Religious Imagination: Jewish and Christian Perspectives
Presenters:
Rabbi Charles L. Arian, ICJS Jewish Scholar
Dr. Rosann Catalano, ICJS Roman Catholic Scholar
Dr. Christopher M. Leighton, ICJS Executive Director
The Rev. John E. Roberts, ICJS Associate Scholar
Date: April - May 2002
Title: Rescuing Paul
Presenter: Janis L. Koch, ICJS Associate Scholar
Date: October - November 2001
Title: Do Jews and Christians Worship the Same God?
Presenters:
Dr. Rosann Catalano, ICJS Roman Catholic Scholar
Dr. Christopher M. Leighton, ICJS Executive Director
Rabbi David F. Sandmel, ICJS Jewish Scholar
Date: February - March 2001
Title: Praying at the Edge: Suffering, The Psalms of Lament, and God
Presenter: Dr. Rosann Catalano,
ICJS Roman Catholic Scholar
Date: May 2000
Title: Biblical Israel, Rabbinic Judaism, and Christianity: A Biblical, Historical, and Theological Exploration
Presenters:
Dr. Rosann Catalano, ICJS Roman Catholic Scholar
Rabbi David F. Sandmel, ICJS Jewish Scholar
Date: September - October 1999
Title: Innocence Lost: Reflections on God, Noah, Job, and Jesus
Presenter: Dr. Rosann Catalano,
ICJS Roman Catholic Scholar
Date: April - May 1999
Title: Biblical Israel, Rabbinic Judaism, and Christianity: A Biblical, Historical, and Tehological Exploration
Presenter: Dr. Rosann Catalano,
ICJS Roman Catholic Scholar
Date: October - November 1998
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Clergy Colloquia Description: A clergy education program designed to provide Jewish and Christian clergy with an opportunity to come together and engage each other in study and conversation about religious issues of concern to both communities. This program replaces the Preaching Colloquia.
Event: Clergy and Religious Professionals Study Day
Presenters:
Walter Brueggemann, Ph.D.
Peter Ochs, Ph.D.
Date: April 18, 2007
Event: Clergy and Religious Professionals Study Day
Topic: Before and Beyond Nostra Aetate: The Future
of Roman Catholic, Protestant and Jewish Encounters
Presenters:
Dr. Rosann Catalano, ICJS
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
Dr. Shira Lander, Jewish College Services
Date: November 17, 2005
Event: Clergy and Educators Study Day
Topic: For the Sake of Heaven and Earth: The New Encounter between Judaism and Christianity
Speaker: Rabbi Irving Greenberg
Date: February 8, 2005
Event: Clergy Colloquium
Topic: A study of violence in sacred texts
Presenter: Dr. Steve Berneking, Senior Bible Scholar for Translation and Education in the E. A. Nida Institute for Biblical Scholarship at the American Bible Society
Date: April 29, 2004
Event: Clergy and Educators Colloquium
Title: "The Passion of the Christ: Biblical, Historical,
and Theological Considerations"
Presenters: Rabbi Charles Arian, Dr. Rosann Catalano,
Dr. Christopher Leighton
Date: March 3, 2004
Event: Clergy Colloquium
Topic: The Dynamics of Prayer
Facilitators: Dr. Christopher Leighton, Dr. Rosann Catalano, Rabbi Charles Arian, The Rev. John E. Roberts
Date: May 7, 2003
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Preaching Colloquia Description: A clergy education program focusing on Christian preaching and the liturgical use of sacred scriptures, designed to provide clergy with assistance
Title: Setting the Tone for Lent
in preaching difficult texts. The Colloquia are held semi-annually, prior to Advent/Christmas and Lent/Easter.
Presenter: Dr. Deidre Good,
General Theological Seminary
Date: January 30, 2002
Title: The Slaughter of the Innocents
Presenters:
Dr. Christopher Leighton, ICJS Executive Director
Dr. Rosann Catalano, ICJS Roman Catholic Scholar
Rabbi Charles Arian, ICJS Jewish Scholar
The Rev. John Roberts, ICJS Program Consultant
Date: November 29, 2001
Title: Three Sides of the Cross:
Rethinking a Death that Saves
Presenter: Dr. Mark Heim,
Andover Newton Theological School
Date: February 8, 2001
Title: From these Stones, Children of Abraham
Topic: "Promise and Fulfillment" in the Gospel readings for the Second, Third, and Fourth Sundays in Advent (Year C)
Presenter: The Rev. Dr. Thomas E. Breidenthal,
General Theological Seminary
Date: November 13, 2000
Title: Christian "Seders"
Presenters:
Rabbi David F. Sandmel, ICJS Jewish Scholar
Rabbi Elizabeth Bolton, Congregation Beit Tikvah
Rabbi Shira Lander, the Ecumenical Institute,
St. Mary's Seminary & University
Rabbi Robert Tobin, Chizuk Amuno Congregation
Dr. Rosann Catalano, ICJS Roman Catholic Scholar
Dates: March 2, 2000
Topic: Biblical background and preaching issues in Johannine texts read on the Third, Fourth, and Fifth Sundays in Lent
Presenter: Dr. Frances Gench, Associate Professor of Biblical Studies at Gettysburg Lutheran Seminary
Date: January 25, 1999
Topics: Readings from the First Sunday in Advent, images of the Nativity, and "preaching the shepherds"
Presenters:
Dr. Rosann Catalano, ICJS Roman Catholic Scholar
Rabbi David F. Sandmel, ICJS Jewish Scholar
Dr. Gary Vikan, Director of the Walters Art Gallery
The Rev. John Roberts, Woodbrook Baptist Church
Date: November 18, 1998
Topic: Problematic texts from the Acts of the Apostles read between Easter and Pentecost
Presenter: Dr. Rosann Catalano,
ICJS Roman Catholic Scholar
Date: March 3, 1998
Topic: Theological implications of Advent hymns and Christmas carols
Presenters: The Revs. Robert Albright and David Yeager
Date: November 13, 1997
Topic: A study of texts from the Hebrew Bible read in the context of Christian worship during the Lenten cycle of readings: implications and challenges for preaching.
Respondents:
Rabbi Donald Berlin, Temple Oheb Shalom
Dr. Edwin Hostetter, Hebrew Bible scholar,
the Ecumenical Institute of Theology,
St. Mary's Seminary & University
Date: February 11, 1997
Topic: Readings from the Fourth Sunday in Advent
Presenters:
Dr. Bruce Birch, Professor of Hebrew Scriptures,
Wesley Theological Seminary
Rabbi Paul Caplan, Beth Am Congregation
Date: November 18, 1996
Topic: A narrative engagement of biblical texts
Presenter: Dr. Peter Pitzele, Director of Psychodrama Services at Four Winds Hospital, Katonah, New York, and Adjunct Faculty Member at Hebrew Union College - Jewish Theological Seminary and Union Theological Seminary, New York City
Date: February 13, 1996
Topic: A study of John the Baptist, Mary, and Joseph
Speakers: The Revs. Robert Albright, Kenneth Byerly, and Roberta Scoville
Date: November 1995
Topic: Preaching Difficult Texts: Judas Betrays Jesus, Mk. 14:43-45; Jesus Foretells Judas' Betrayal, Jn. 13:21-30; The Death of Judas, Mt. 3-5a
Presenters: The Rev. Carl Edwards, The Rev. John Roberts, Mr. Peter Culman
Date: February 21, 1995
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ICJS Scripture Forum Description: A program that brings together rabbis
Event: 2006-2007 Scripture Forum
and Christian clergy to study sacred texts, to explore contrasting and conflicting interpretations within and between the Jewish and Christian traditions, and to consider the ways in which these texts continue to shape the religious imaginations of both communities.
Topic: Land and family in biblical texts
Facilitator: Dr. Randi Rashkover
Event: 2005-2006 Scripture Forum
Topic: Economics in biblical texts
Facilitator: Dr. Randi Rashkover
Event: 2004-2005 Scripture Forum
Topics: Issues in 2004-2005 ICJS programs
Event: 2003-2004 Scripture Forum
Topic: Issues surrounding Mel Gibson's film
The Passion of the Christ
Event: 2002-2003 Scripture Forum
Topic: How Jews and Christians Read their Sacred Texts
Event: 2001-2002 Scripture Forum
Topic: "Sin and Repentance in Judaism and Christianity"
Event: 2000 Scripture Forum
Date: May 25, 2000
Topic: "Law in the Jewish and Christian Imaginiations"
Leader:
Dr. Peter Ochs,
Bronfman Professor of Jewish Studies,
University of Virginia
Event: 1998-1999 Scripture Forum
Topic: The Ten Commandments
Leaders:
Dr. Walter Harrelson,
Professor Emeritus, Vanderbilt Divinity School
Rabbi Tzvi-Hersh Weinreb,
Congregation Shomrei Emunah
Rabbi Gustav Buchdahl,
Temple Emanuel
Dr. Roger Gench,
Brown Memorial Church, Park Avenue
Rabbi Gila Ruskin,
Congregation Chevrei Tzedek
Dr. Christopher Leighton,
Executive Director, ICJS
Dr. Rosann Catalano,
Roman Catholic Scholar, ICJS
Rabbi Donald Berlin,
Temple Oheb Shalom
Dr. Bruce Birch,
Wesley Theological Seminary
Event: 1997-1998 Scripture Forum
Topic: Eschatology and the Apocalyptic Imagination
Leaders:
Dr. Katheryn Darr,
Boston University
Dr. Neil Gillman,
Jewish Theological Seminary
Dr. Christopher Leighton,
Executive Director, ICJS
Dr. Rosann Catalano,
Roman Catholic Scholar, ICJS
Dr. Rick Carlson,
Lutheran Theological Seminary
Dr. Walter Brueggemann,
Columbia Theological Seminary
Pastor Brad Braxton,
Frederick Douglas Community Church
Event: 1995-1996 Scripture Forum
Topic: Families: Isaac, Hagar, Joseph, the Prodigal Son
Leaders:
Dr. Robin Jensen,
Assistant Professor of the History of Christianity,
Andover Newton Theological Seminary
Dr. Tikva Frymer-Kensky,
Professor of Hebrew Bible,
University of Chicago Divinity School
Director of Biblical Studies,
Reconstructionist Rabbinical College
Dr. Michael Signer,
Abrams Professor of Jewish Thought and Culture,
University of Notre Dame
Dr. Christopher Leighton,
Executive Director, ICJS
Event: 1994-1995 Scripture Forum
Topic: Inquiry into the Book of Job
Leaders:
Dr. Steven Vicchio,
Professor of Philosophy,
College of Notre Dame of Maryland
Dr. Peter Pitzele,
Director of Psychodrama Services,
Four Winds Hospital, Katonah, New York
Dr. Rosann Catalano,
Roman Catholic Scholar, ICJS
Dr. Bruce Zuckerman,
University of Southern California
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Jewish & Christian Educators Study Group Description: The Jewish & Christian Educators Study Group is an outgrowth of a conference sponsored by the ICJS in May 1997. This group meets for two full days of study during each academic year.
Topic: Confronting Difficult Texts
Date: March 2006
Topic: The First Commandment
Date: December 2005
Topic: Jewish and Christian Insights into Dying Well
Date: March 2005
Topic: Jewish and Christian Insights into the Exercise
of Leadership
Date: November 2004
Topic: Dramatizations of the Death of Jesus:
Biblical, Historical, and Theological Considerations
Date: February 2004
Topic: Religion and Violence: Study of problematic texts
Date: November 2003
Topic: The Role of Abraham in the Jewish and Christian Traditions
Date: March 2003
Topic: Coming Together to Pray, Praying Together:
The Problems and Possibilities of Interfaith Prayer
Date: November 2002
Topic: The Dynamics of Suffering in the Jewish and Christian Traditions
Date: April 2002
Topic: I Am Joseph Your Brother: Study, viewing, and discussion of the film
Date: February 2002
Topic: Study and discussion of Dabru Emet,
statements 6-9
Date: April 2001
Topic: Study and discussion of Dabru Emet,
statements 3-5
Date: January 2001
Topic: Study and discussion of Dabru Emet,
statements 1-2
Date: November 2000
Topic: Consultation, study, discussion, and review of draft chapters for Irreconcilable Differences, the Study Guide for the National Jewish Scholars' Project
Date: May 2000
Topic: Consultation, study, discussion, and review of draft chapters for Irreconcilable Differences, the Study Guide for the National Jewish Scholars' Project
Date: April 2000
Topic: Consultation and study in connection with the Study Guide for the National Jewish Scholars' Project, Dabru Emet and Christianity in Jewish Terms
Date: May 1999
Topic: The Role of Prayer in the Formation of Jewish and Roman Catholic Identity, Part II: The Eucharistic Prayer in the Formation of Roman Catholic Identity
Date: November 1998
Topic: The Role of Prayer in the Formation of Jewish and Roman Catholic Identity, Part I: The Amidah, in conjunc-tion with a major exhibit at the Jewish Museum of Mary-land entitled "The Eighteen Blessings at the Heart of Jewish Worship"
Date: May 1998
Topic: The Dynamics of Repentance, Reconciliation, and Forgiveness; Text study of Genesis 32:1-33:30 and Luke 15:11-32
Date: November 1997
Event: Conference: Faith for the Future
Date: May 1997
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Genesis Project Description: This project includes a number of ICJS programs that revolve around the book of Genesis, the Bill Moyers' PBS series Genesis: A Living Conversation, and the accompanying learning resource Talking About Genesis: A Resource Guide.
Event: An Evening with Bill Moyers to introduce Genesis: A Living Conversation (PBS series)
The pilot project spawned educational programs in Jewish and Christian congregations, Baltimore area high schools, the House of Corrections in Jessup, the retirement community at Roland Park Place, and the Johns Hopkins University.
Date: September 25, 1996
Event: Congregational Project
Date: October 1996 - January 1997
Sponsor: Funded by a grant from the Charles H. Revson Foundation
Event: Genesis High School Project
Date: Spring 1997
Event: Genesis Prison Project
Date: 1997
Participants: Inmates at Jessup Prison/Maryland House of Corrections
Leaders:
The Rev. Grady Yeargin,
City Temple Baptist Church
Rabbi Joel Zaiman,
Chizuk Amuno Congregation
Dr. Christopher Leighton,
Executive Director, ICJS
Event: Genesis High School Project
Date: Spring 1998
Sponsor: Funding from the Rouse Foundation
Event: Genesis High School Project
Date: Spring 1999
Event: Genesis Prison Project
Date: 1999
Sponsor: Funded by a grant from the Nathan Cummings Foundation
Event: Genesis High School Project
Facilitators: Geoff Basik, Emily Gaines Demsky, Donna Lee Frisch, Judy Frumkin, David Holland, Alice Jellema, and David Owens
Date: February 2000
Sponsors: the Becker Family Fund of the Baltimore Community Foundation, the Baltimore Equitable Insurance Fund
Event: Genesis High School Program
Date: February 2001
Event: High School Genesis Program
Facilitators: Geoffrey Basik, Donna Lee Frisch, Judy Frumkin, Maggi Gaines, Emily Gaines Demsky, David Holland, and David Owens
Date: January - February 2002
Sponsor: Baltimore Equitable Insurance Foundation
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ICJS/spark High School Program:
Bridging the GenerationsDescription: This program combines study of texts from the three Abrahamic faiths (Judaism, Christianity, and Islam) with community service to selected nursing and retirement homes.
Event: Bridging the Generations
Topics:
Faith as a Call to Service
Encountering the Stranger and Taking Risks
The Nature of Obligation
Coping with Grief and Loss
Learning Wisdom
Popular Culture and Aging
Place: Keswick Multi-care Center
Date: January - February 2004
Event: Bridging the Generations
Date: January - February 2003
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Congregational Project Description: Originally a part of the Genesis Pilot Project, the Congregational Project brings together
Topic: "Wrestling with Angels: Texts of Transformation in a Violent World"
men and women, Jews and Christians, blacks and
whites from Baltimore area congregations to explore biblical texts in both large and small group discussions.
Facilitators:
Dr. Rosann M. Catalano
Dr. Christopher M. Leighton
The Rev. Grady Yeargin
Rabbi Joel H. Zaiman
Rabbi Steven P. Schwartz
Date: January - February 2007
Topic: The Meanings of Death in Judaism and Christianity
Facilitators:
Dr. Rosann Catalano,
Associate Director/Roman Catholic Scholar, ICJS
The Rev. John Roberts,
Associate Scholar, ICJS
Dr. Christopher Leighton,
Executive Director, ICJS
Rabbi Floyd Herman,
Rabbi Emeritus, Har Sinai Congregation
Date: January - February 2006
Topic: The Meaning of Leadership in Judaism and Christianity
Facilitators:
Dr. Rosann Catalano,
Roman Catholic Scholar, ICJS
Rabbi Charles Arian,
Jewish Scholar, ICJS
Dr. Christopher Leighton,
Executive Director, ICJS
Date: May 2005
Topic:
Exodus and Passover, Crucifixion and Resurrection
Facilitators:
Dr. Rosann Catalano,
Roman Catholic Scholar, ICJS
Rabbi Charles Arian,
Jewish Scholar, ICJS
Dr. Christopher Leighton,
Executive Director, ICJS
Date: April - May 2004
Topic: The Dynamics of Prayer
Facilitators:
Dr. Rosann Catalano,
Roman Catholic Scholar, ICJS
Rabbi Charles Arian,
Jewish Scholar, ICJS
Dr. Christopher Leighton,
Executive Director, ICJS
Date: January, May 2003
Topic: "What is the meaning of ‘Israel’ for Jews and Christians?"
Facilitators:
Dr. Rosann Catalano,
Roman Catholic Scholar, ICJS
Rabbi Charles Arian,
Jewish Scholar, ICJS
Dr. Christopher Leighton,
Executive Director, ICJS
Date: April - May 2002
Topic: Dabru Emet
Date: April - May 2001
Topic: "Moses, Ruth, Jesus, and Jonah"
Facilitators:
Dr. Rosann Catalano,
Roman Catholic Scholar, ICJS
Rabbi David Sandmel,
Jewish Scholar, ICJS
Dr. Christopher Leighton,
Executive Director, ICJS
Date: February 2000
Topic: "In the End is the Beginning: Jewish and Christian Visions of the Future"
Date: 1998
Topic: The Book of Genesis
Date: 1996
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Event: ICJS Fellows Conference
Other ICJS Projects
Speaker: Taylor Branch
Scholar-in-residence: Dr. Nancy Fuchs Kreimer
Dates: November 6 - 8, 2005
Event: Conference for medical and religious
professionals
Topic: "Dying Well: Medicine and Mortality through
Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Eyes"
Presenters: Click here for faculty
Date: April 12, 2005
Event: ICJS Fellows Conference
Presenters:
Rabbi Charles Arian, ICJS
Dr. Rosann Catalano, ICJS
Dr. Christopher Leighton, ICJS
Dr. John Roth, Claremont McKenna College
Rabbi Joel Zaiman, Rabbi Emeritus of
Chizuk Amuno Congregation
Place: Pearlstone Conference Center
Date: April 5 - 7, 2005
Event: National Student Essay Contest
Title: Reaching Common Ground
Sponsors: Elizabeth Goldhirsh and the ICJS
Date: Spring and Summer 2004
Event: Special Lecture
Title: The Dignity of Difference
Speaker: Rabbi Jonathan Sacks,
Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations
of the British Commonwealth
Date: April 30, 2003
Event: Congregational Clergy Conference
Facilatators: Dr. Christopher Leighton, Dr. Rosann Catalano, Rabbi Charles Arian, the Reverend Thomas Breidenthal, Rabbi James Diamond
Date: March 10 - 11, 2003
Project: "Reclaiming the Center"
Location: Atlanta, Georgia
Date: January 5 - 8, 2003
Event: Congregational Project in Washington
Title: Jews and Christians: A New Conversation
Speakers:
Rabbi David Rosen
Dr. James Forbes
Dr. Tikva Frymer-Kensky
Bishop Krister Stendahl
Date: October - November 2002
Event: Spring Conversation
Title: "The Dome of the Rock"
Speaker:
Carol Bier,
Research Associate, Washington's Textile Museum,
Faculty member, Maryland Institute College of Art
Date: May 9, 2002
Program: "I Am Joseph Your Brother"
Presenters:
Dr. Ron Kronish,
Director of the Interreligious Coordinating Council
in Israel
ICJS Executive Director and Staff Scholars
Date: February 7, 2002
Event: Consultation on Seminary Education, Phase One
Title: "Theological Education in a Religiously Plural World"
Presenters:
Donald Juel, Princeton Theological Seminary
Alan Segal, Barnard College/Columbia University
Philip Cunningham, The Center for Christian-Jewish
Learning, Boston College
Sara Lee, Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of
Religion, Los Angeles
John Pawlikowski, Catholic Theological Union
Racelle Weiman, Hebrew Union College - Jewish
Institute of Religion, Cincinnati
Denise Dombkowski Hopkins, Wesley Theological
Seminary
Ruth Langer, The Center for Christian-Jewish Learning,
Boston College
Tikva Frymer-Kensky, The Divinity School,
University of Chicago
David Novak, University of Toronto
Walter Harrelson, Vanderbilt University,
Wake Forest University Divinity School
Date: May 30 - June 1, 2001
Program: Continuing Clergy Education: "The Problem and Promise of Religious Pluralism"
Featured Speaker:
Dr. R. Kendall Soulen,
Assistant Professor of Systematic Theology,
Wesley Theological Seminary, Washington, D.C.
Participants: Episcopal, Lutheran, Methodist, and Presbyterian clergy
Date: 1999 - 2000
Event: Invitational Conference: "Faith for the Future"
Featured Speakers:
Rabbi Ruth Langer
The Rev. John Pawlikowski
Rabbi Jack Bemporad
Rabbi Daniel Lehmann
Participants: Jewish and Roman Catholic clergy and educators
Date: May 14 - 17, 1997
Sponsor: Conference sponsored and designed by the ICJS with support from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Event: ICJS Study Tour to Israel
Leaders:
Rabbi Daniel Lehmann
Dr. Christopher Leighton
Participants: Jewish and Christian clergy, educators, and community leaders
Date: November 27 - December 5, 1995
Event: National Lutheran-Presbyterian Conference: "Faith for the Future"
Speakers:
Dr. Nancy Fuchs Kreimer,
Director of the Religious Studies Program,
Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, Wyncote, PA
Dr. Norman Beck,
Chair of the Religion Department,
Texan Lutheran College
Dr. Scott Hendrix,
Gettysburg Lutheran Seminary
Dr. Bernard Cooperman,
Director, Meyerhoff Center for Judaic Studies,
University of Maryland, College Park
Dr. John Roth,
Claremont-McKenna College
Rabbi Jack Bemporad,
Director, Sacred Heart Center for Christian-Jewish
Understanding
Dr. Douglas John Hall,
McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Rabbi Leon Klenicki,
Department of Interfaith Affairs,
Anti-Defamation League
Date: June 26 - 28, 1994
Sponsors: Coordinated with the Institute for Jewish-Christian Understanding at Muhlenberg College, the Baltimore Presbytery, the Maryland-Delaware Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Event: The Lilly Project (for Roman Catholic and Jewish educators)
Leaders: Professors Mary Boys and Sara Lee
Dates: five three-day intensive study retreats completed in May 1994
Event: The Schindler's List Project
Date: February 3, 1994
Sponsors: Program jointly sponsored by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Baltimore and the Institute for Christian & Jewish Studies
Event: The Reformed Tradition and Religious Pluralism
Leader: Dr. Douglas Ottati, Professor of Theology, Union Theological Seminary, Richmond, Virginia
Participants: clergy and religious educators
Date: Winter 1993
Event: ICJS Study Tour to Israel
Participants: Jewish and Christian clergy, educators, and community leaders
Date: November 29 - December 8, 1993
Event: ICJS Study Tour to Israel
Leaders:
Rabbi Steven Greenberg
Dr. Walter Harrelson
Participants: Jewish and Christian clergy, educators, and community leaders
Date: February 1992
Event: Seminars on "Paul and Torah"
Speaker:
Dr. Rick Carlson,
Gettysburg Theological Seminary
Topics:
Part I: Analysis of Romans 9-11
Part II: The Prevailing Interpretation
Date: October 24, 1991
Speaker: Bishop Krister Stendahl
Topic: Romans 9-11 Reconsidered
Date: November 21, 1991
Event: "Nostra Aetate and Beyond: New Possibilities in the Jewish-Christian Encounter"
Featured Speakers:
Bishop Henryk Muszynski,
Chairman, Polish Episcopate's Comission for
Dialogue With Judaism, Wloclawek, Poland
Rabbi Jack Bemporad,
Synagogue Council of America
The Rev. John Pawlikowski,
Catholic Theological Union
Dr. Clark Williamson,
Christian Theological Seminary,
Indianapolis, Indiana
The Rev. Loren B. Mead,
President, The Albin Institute
Date: March 7 - 8, 1991
Sponsors: The Archdiocese of Baltimore, St. Mary's Seminary & University, The Institute for Christian & Jewish Studies
Event: "The Imperative for Religious Understanding"
Speaker: Elie Wiesel, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Humanities, Boston University; 1986 Nobel Peace Prize Recipient; Survivor and distinguished intepreter of the Holocaust
Date: December 7, 1989
Event: Lecture
Speaker: Dr. Deborah E. Lipstadt, Research Fellow of the International Center for the Study of Anti-Semitism at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem
Date: February 23, 1989
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Topic: "The Young Moses as Prototype of Redemption"
Beit Midrash Programs
Leader: Noam Zion, Fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem
Date: February 7, 1997
Topic: "Esau and Jacob: Sibling Rivalry as a Prototype for Religious, Ethnic, and Political Strife"
Leader: Noam Zion, Fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem
Date: February 2, 1996
Topic: "Cain and Abel: Faith and Fratricide"
Leader: Noam Zion, Fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem
Date: January 20, 1995
Topic: "The Problem of Evil"
Leader: Zachary Braiterman, Stanford University
Date: April 11, 1994
Topic: "The Story of Adam and Eve"
Leader: Noam Zion, Fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem
Date: January 28, 1994
Topic: "Messiah and Redemption in the Talmud"
Leader: Dr. Susan Handelman, Professor of English, University of Maryland
Date: May 1993
Topic: "Faith and Salvation of Non-Jews: A Jewish Story"
Leader: Dr. Eugene Korn, Samuel Melton Fellow at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem
Date: March 25, 1993
Topic: "Rabbinic Responses to the Religious Fanatic"
Leader: Noam Zion, Fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem
Date: January 29, 1993
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