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 Rabbi Alfred Gottschalk, Chancellor Emeritus, Participates in Catholic-Jewish Conference in Rome Rabbi Alfred Gottschalk participated in the First Lay Conference of Catholic-Jewish Relations in Rome this past October, speaking about "Vatican Relations with Israel and Islam" and sharing a Catholic-Jewish Relations panel with Father Michael Graham of Xavier University. The four-day conference, held Sunday October 21 through Wednesday October 24 at the Vatican, convened 75 representatives from churches and synagogues across the United States and Vatican leadership to discuss challenges facing Jewish-Catholic relations and ways to build understanding. The conference was sponsored by the Interreligious Information Center, an organization that conducts programs about Catholic-Jewish relationships through dialogues, briefings, and conferences. Rabbi Gottschalk also spoke at the opening session, describing his childhood experience of being taken in by Catholic nuns in a German school after being expelled by the Nazis. Rabbis Jack Bemporad and Abie Ingber, HUC-JIR alumni, also presented at the conference. Founded in 1875, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion is the nation's oldest institution of higher Jewish education and the academic, spiritual, and professional leadership development center of Reform Judaism. HUC-JIR educates men and women for service to American and world Jewry as rabbis, cantors, educators, and communal service professionals, and offers graduate and post-graduate programs to scholars of all faiths. With centers of learning in Cincinnati, Jerusalem, Los Angeles, and New York, HUC-JIR's scholarly resources comprise renowned library and museum collections, the American Jewish Archives, biblical archaeology excavations, research institutes and centers, and academic publications. HUC-JIR invites the community to an array of cultural and educational programs which illuminate Jewish history, identity, and contemporary creativity and which foster interfaith and multiethnic understanding. Visit us at www.huc.edu |
