Aquinas Institute of Theology, Eden Theological Seminary and the Jewish Community Relations Council's Michael and Barbara Newmark Institute for Human Relations will present "Christian Anti-Semitism Today: What Is It? Where Is It? How Do We Respond?" from...
David Baugher,
Special to the Jewish Light
• Published October 6, 2010
Papering over disagreements in an attempt to highlight areas of similarity does not build a strong foundation for mutual respect among faiths. That will be the message delivered by a noted scholar on interreligious dialogue later this month. "Understanding...
WASHINGTON — Eight imams bowed in prayer before a sculpture at Dachau vividly representing the Jewish dead of Europe. It's a picture worth a thousand words of reconciliation and understanding. Yet even before its appearance in the Jewish media - on...
By David Baugher, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published September 1, 2010
The small lump on Roydell Mondaine's right arm isn't easy to spot but it's visible if you look closely. It's where a 9-mm round has remained lodged since 1982, a last reminder of the time when Mondaine, three days before her birthday, found herself hanging...
Archbishop Robert J. Carlson and Dr. Lawrence J. Welch, the Director of the Office of Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs of the Archdiocese of St. Louis, met recently with Jewish community leaders at the Jewish Federation Building at a meeting facilitated...
Perhaps no issue in recent memory has aroused as much controversy and passion as the proposed Islamic community center and mosque two blocks from Ground Zero. Those passions came to a head as the blogosphere reacted, mostly in a headlong rush to judgment,...
WASHINGTON (JTA) - More often than not, Jewish and Muslim groups come down on the same side of battles over religious liberties. Jewish organizations often file amicus briefs supporting Muslim religious rights in cases where zoning boards try to block...
NEW YORK — Is it possible that the first iconic Jewish picture of the decade is of an interfaith marriage? Photographs taken Saturday show the Jewish groom wearing a yarmulke and a crumpled tallit staring into the eyes of his giddy bride under a traditional...
