Congregation Beth Mordecai
Congregation Beth Mordecai
An inclusive congregation affiliated with the Conservative Movement.
Your Jewish Home for the Soul!
An inclusive congregation affiliated with the Conservative Movement.
Your Jewish Home for the Soul!
April 29, 2015
Date/Time
Date(s) - Wednesday, April 29, 2015
7:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Location
Congregation Beth Mordecai
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Tensions between Jews and Muslims have run high due to the conflict in the Middle East and anti-semitism in Europe. What is fact and fiction about Jewish-Muslim relations? Are we enemies or is there common ground? Come and hear an important, provocative, and timely lecture from Dr.Burton Visotzky, one of the “50 Most Influential Jews in America” and a leading scholars in the field of Jewish-Muslim relations today. Refreshments will be served.
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BURTON L. VISOTZKY serves as Appleman Professor of Midrash and Interreligious Studies at the Jewish Theological Seminary, where he joined the faculty upon his ordination as rabbi in 1977. Visotzky was a dean of the Graduate School and founding Rabbi of the egalitarian worship service of the Seminary Synagogue. He now serves as the Louis Stein Director of the Finkelstein Institute for Religious and Social Studies at JTS, charged with programs on public policy. Visotzky also directs the Milstein Center for Interreligious Dialogue at JTS.
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Rabbi Visotzky participates in interreligious engagement internationally, in capitals such as Washington; Warsaw; Rome; Cairo; Doha, Qatar; Madrid; and Muskat, Oman. He was the winner of the 2012 Goldziher Prize, awarded biennially by Merrimack College for work in Jewish-Muslim relations. Visotzky is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
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Professor Visotzky is active as a lecturer and scholar-in-residence throughout North America, Europe, and Israel. His study groups and books have been hailed on radio, television, and in print. He has been named to “The Forward 50” and repeatedly to the Newsweek/Daily Beast list of “The 50 Most Influential Jews in America.”