Posts by Woolf Institute

A Philosophy to Reframe Interfaith Education

Woolf Institute — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 16:59:58 +0100

Is the Dream of Interfaith Dialogue Dead?

Woolf Institute — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 16:55:39 +0100

Is the Study of Jewish-Christian Relations still important?

Woolf Institute — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 16:50:16 +0100

COLLOQUIUM: Christian Anti-Judaism in Baroque Music

Woolf Institute — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 12:19:31 +0100

Israeli-Palestinian Bereaved Families Forum: supporting Peace, Reconciliation and Tolerance

Woolf Institute — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 16:10:17 +0100

CMC/CMJR OPEN SEMINAR: Comparing Mourning and Burial Practices in Medieval Judaism and Islam

Woolf Institute — Thu, 10 May 2012 14:53:49 +0100

Cities, Writing, and Readerships: Social History and Jewish Sectarianism in the Early Centuries of Islam, Professor Fred Astren

Woolf Institute — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 11:02:37 +0000

Interview with the Archbishop of Canterbury's Secretary for Inter Religious Affairs

Woolf Institute — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 11:32:36 +0000

A Woolf Institute interview with the Archbishop of Canterbury's Secretary for Inter Religious Affairs, the Rev Dr Toby Howarth.

Woolf Institute lecture: Archbishop Vincent Nichols

Woolf Institute — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 10:11:24 +0000

On Wednesday the 8th February, Archbishop Vincent Nichols delivered a Woolf Institute public lecture on the subject of 'God in the City'.

Reflecting on the theme of the common good, the Archbishop remarked that "one of the significant features of our times is the profound desire to foster and benefit from genuine dialogue between our religious beliefs and traditions. This desire is shaped not only by the evident need for our society to find a sound ethical basis on which to build, not only the need to generate in society those values which lead to generous, selfless service, but also out of the religious conviction that the one eternal God graces our world in many ways. It is in response to that graciousness, that gratuity, that we, in our turn, offer to each other a warmth and a respect which motivates us to explore together, to study together and together serve the cause of human flourishing."

Interview with Archbishop Nichols

Woolf Institute — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 10:17:18 +0000

An interview with the Archbishop of Westminster by Dr Shana Cohen at the Woolf Institute on themes such as: the future of Jewish-Christian relations, 'key issues' in Jewish-Muslim-Christian relations, the contribution of social faith based social action and the role of 'trust' today.

Two faiths, one goal: the Chief Rabbi's Papal audience

Woolf Institute — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 16:37:08 +0000

The visit of the Chief Rabbi to the Vatican, organised by the Woolf Institute in Cambridge and the Vatican's Cardinal Bea Centre, provided an opportunity to regain momentum in Jewish-Catholic relations at the highest level.

Towards the end of the audience, the Chief Rabbi and the Pope spoke privately. He described this tete-a-tete as "a meeting of minds and a beautiful moment".

Read Dr Edward Kessler's account of the meeting in this week's JC: http://www.thejc.com/comment-and-debate/analysis/60367/it-was-a-meeting-...

and this week's Tablet: http://www.thetablet.co.uk/article/162125

Internship at the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust

Woolf Institute — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 17:41:54 +0000

Every year on 27 January, the world marks Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD). HMD provides an opportunity for everyone to learn lessons from the Holocaust, Nazi persecution and subsequent genocides and apply them to the present day to create a safer, better future. The Holocaust Memorial Day Trust (HMDT) is a charity which works to raise awareness of HMD, promoting and encouraging participation in the day by providing free resources, running free workshops across the UK and producing the annual theme for HMD.

As part of their strategic vision to 2015 they are recruiting for a faith intern, who will join the team for five months for one day per week. The successful candidate will be responsible for auditing and assessing our faith and inter-faith resources, advising on possible new resources or partnerships, and analysing current trends in faith dialogue in social media and other forms of communication. They will advise on a faith strategy for HMDT, extending until 2015.

For more information on the role please visit: http://hmd.org.uk/about/vacancies/faith-internship

A lecture by Professor Guy Strousma:the first Oxford Professor of the Study of the Abrahamic Religions.

Woolf Institute — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 10:29:48 +0100

Interview with Atallah Mansour

Woolf Institute — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 16:40:44 +0100

Atallah Mansour is the only Arab-Christian to become a member of the editorial board of a major Israeli newspaper. He was also the first to write in Hebrew for Haaretz and the first to publish a novel in Hebrew. He was born in Al-Jish, Safad S/D, Palestine in 1934 and was a refugee in the first school for Palestinian students in Al Mokhtarah,Lebanon (1948-49). He is a graduate of Ruskin College, Oxford (1973).

Interview with Dr Avihai Shivtiel

Woolf Institute — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 16:38:08 +0100

Avihai Shivtiel has taught Arabic at the Hebrew University, Bar Ilan University, Leeds and Cambridge University. He has also worked as a Senior Research Fellow at the Taylor-Shechter Genizah Research Unit at Cambridge University until his full retirement in 2007. His publications include over 150 books, articles, reviews and entries for the three Encyclopaedias of Islam, Language and Linguistics and Arabic Language and Linguistics.

Interview with Dr Richard Stone

Woolf Institute — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 16:32:40 +0100

Dr Richard Stone OBE, who is a Patron of the Woolf Institute, was on the panels of the Stephen Lawrence Inquiry, and of the 2003/04 David Bennett Inquiry into the death of a Black patient in a medium secure psychiatric hospital in Norwich. He was previously senior partner in a five-doctor group practice in Notting Hill and Bayswater,Central London. Vice-chair of the Runnymede Trust he spent 6 years on its Islamophobia Commission, from 2000 to ’04 as chair. He is President of the Jewish Council for Racial Equality, and founder and co-chair of Alif-Aleph UK, a group of British Muslims & British Jews

Interview with Prof. Sasson Somekh

Woolf Institute — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 16:29:28 +0100

Sasson Somekh was born in Baghdad to a secular Jewish family. In 1951, Somekh and his family immigrated to Israel in the wake of growing pressures on the Jews of Iraq to leave the country. He earned a Bachelor's degree in Hebrew Language and History from Tel Aviv University, and a Master's degree in Linguistics of Semitic languages at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In 1962-1965, Somekh served as scientific secretary of the Academy of the Hebrew Language. He did his doctorate at Oxford University in 1966-1968. He served as chairman of the Arabic Language and Literature department at Tel Aviv University in 1972-1984. In 1980, he became a full professor. Between 1982-2003, he held the Helmos Chair for Arabic Literature. In 1996-1998 he was head of the Israel Academic Center in Cairo. He was a visiting professor at Princeton University, St Antony's College, Oxford, Annenberg Research Institute, NYU and Uppsala University. In 2004, he received an honorary doctorate from Ben Gurion University.

BOOK LAUNCH: Christian-Jewish Relations, 1000-1300: Jews in the Service of Medieval Christendom.

Woolf Institute — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 15:18:38 +0100

An Interview with AJ Levine

Woolf Institute — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 14:22:15 +0100

AJ Levine if University Professor of New Testament and Jewish studies, E.Rhodes and Leona B.Carpenter Professor of New Testament Studies, Professor of Jewish Studies at Vanderbilt University Divinity School and, as of May 2011, an Affiliated Professor at the Woolf Institute.

The Woolf Institute

Woolf Institute — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 13:30:15 +0100