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UPCOMING
DIALOGUES
JULY
8, 2008
Brooklyn Heights Synagogue: 'Speaking
Across Differences'
JULY
10, 2008
Hicksville, LI School District
SEPTEMBER 24, 2008
Hofstra University: Day of Dialogue
Union Theological Seminary: Interethnic
/ Interfaith Difficult Conversations
NOVEMBER 16, 2008
Plymouth Church of the
Pilgrims: Interfaith Teach-in
For more information
about upcoming events, please call 718-768-2175.
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Dialogue Project Interfaith Events
The Dialogue Project's interfaith events are held annually, bringing together clergy leaders, regular "people in the pews", and many interested others to dialogue. Each year we choose topics that promote provocative, thoughtful and deep conversations.
Interfaith 2005 and 2006 Highlights and Pictures
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Our 2006 our 5th Annual Interfaith Teach-in event was dedicatedto the memory of dialoguer Isabel Slater. An active member of Our Lady of Angels parish in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn Isabel the first person to volunteer for any project that promotes better communication and understanding. She also volunteered for the School for the Deaf. She is sorely missed.
Over 120 people gathered at Good Shpeherd Lutheran
Church to study and talk. Topics
included: The role of women in our text; Ideas on weath and poverty in each faith tradition; and what role do the prophets have in our faith traditions.
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Linda Sarsour of the Arab American Association, learns about women in Hebrew texts from Rabbinic Intern Tom Gardner of Brooklyn Heights Syn. and Rabbi Barat Ellman.
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Monsignor Guy Massie of St. Andrews Roman Catholic Church, compares ideas of Jewsih prophets and Catholic understanding.
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Fr. Khader and Grace El-Yateem of Salam Arabic Lutheran Church speak with Muslims and Jews about the role of women in the Christian Arab Church.
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Rabbi Jeff Marker a Rabbninc Chaplin, finds that Ahmed Saleh from Egypt, is interested in the prophets in Judaism. |
Imam Samer Alraey engages a table of Jewish and Christian particpants about the purpose of the prophets in Islam. |
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Rev Daniel Meeter of the Park Slope Old Reform Church raises issues about the rich and the poor in Christian texts, and Marcia Kannry, Dialogue Project Founder, helps reflect a point.
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Rabbi Barat Ellman emphasises a point about Women's in roles in Jewish texts. |
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Sister Sara Sayeed , Ph.D. Adjunct Professor of Communcation at Barouch College engages participants in ideas about the role of women in the texts in Islam.
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Rabbi Micah Kelber of the Bay Ridge Jewish Center explores Jewish ideas on wealth and poverty from Jewish legal texts. |
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The 2005 Interfaith Event was Held at Grace Episcopal Church in Brooklyn Heights.
Interfaith leaders engaged particpants in round table discussions on the issues of Justice, Jerusalem and Rituals. |
John Kemp of St. Andrews, Eric Hollander of Park Slope Jewish Center and others signing up for our fourth annual interfaith event at Grace Church this September. |
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Erica Hawkins signing- in guests in the Grace Church court yard |
Imam Omar Namous and Rabbi Simka Weintraub sharing a blessing for the event |
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Rabbi Simka Weintraub reflecting with Rabbi Micah Kelber |
Pastor Khader El-Yateem leading a discussion with his brother-in-law Jonathan Khutab, a legal activist |
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DP Vice President Tom Cox |
Reverend Meeter leading a disucussion, Linda Sarsour sits to the left. |
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Hamid Abdeljaber speaking with a participant |
Interfith co-chair, Eddy Ehlichman |
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