Sunday, October 27, 2024
9:15am – Breakfast in the Social Hall
10:00am - Speaker in person & Zoom
Join us as Rabbi Dr. Ron Kronish presents his view on the possibility of Arab-Jewish coexistence.
- What’s at stake? Why is this issue so important and yet at the same time so neglected by Diaspora Jewish Communities as well as by Jewish leadership in Israel?
- What is the difference between the existential need for Arab-Jewish coexistence within the state of Israel and the mini-war going on between Israel and Hamas and against Palestinians in the West Bank (sometimes known as Judea and Samaria, or “the Occupied Territories”)
- What have been some of the cutting-edge programs with which I was intimately involved that have made an impact in this field?
- What needs to be done in the future?
- What are some of the critical challenges that confront us?
Rabbi Dr. Ron Kronish is an independent scholar, writer, blogger, lecturer, teacher and mentor. For the past several years, he has been a Library Fellow at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute. From 1991-2015, he served as the Founder and Director of the Interreligious Coordinating Council in Israel (ICCI), which was Israel’s premier interreligious institution during those years.
He was educated at Brandeis University (BA), Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion (ordination as rabbi), and the Harvard Graduate School of Education (EdD). He is the editor of Coexistence and Reconciliation in Israel: Voices for Interreligious Dialogue (Paulist Press, 2015) and the author of The Other Peace Process: Interreligious Dialogue, A View from Jerusalem, (Hamilton Books 2017) and Profiles in Peace https://www.amazon.com/Profiles-Peace-Peacebuilders-Israeli-Palestinian-Conflict-ebook/dp/B0B94S8DHN.
He currently teaches about Interreligious Dialogue and Peacebuilding at the Drew University Theological School (via zoom) in Madison, NJ. In addition, he writes a regular blog for The Times of Israel https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/author/ron-kronish/ and is a contributor to The Jerusalem Report.
He has lived in Jerusalem, Israel, for the past 45 years with his wife Amy. They are the proud parents of three married daughters and have six wonderful grandchildren.
More information about Rabbi Kronish can be found on his website: https://www.ronkronish.com/
Join us onsite for a FULL BREAKFAST of bagels, smoked salmon, pickled herring, whitefish salad, tabbouleh, desserts and more. On-site attendance for this event is free for Brotherhood members(with Promo code emailed separately to members); $15 for guests. Attendance on Zoom is free to all for this event.
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