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TWELFTH ANNUAL MEETING - 2013

Manhattan College Holocaust, Genocide, and Interfaith Education Center, NY

Sunday, Oct 20 - Monday, Oct 21, 2013

All events except Sunday's dinner will occur in the Alumni Room in the O'Malley library (1st floor)

[pdf version of program and registration.]

Sunday, October 20, 2013
12:00-1:30 p.m. Arrival and check-in at Hampton Inn and Suites, Yonkers, NY.
1:30 p.m. Transfer from the hotel to the campus of Manhattan College
2:00-3:45 p.m. Panel: "Educational Initiatives about Israeli-Palestinian Issues"
  • Evangelical Christian/Orthodox Jewish study trip to Israel - Leah Sarna and Sang Yun (Yale University)
  • ICCJ's "As Long as You Believe in a Living God, You Must Have Hope" - Philip A. Cunningham (Saint Joseph's University)
  • The Hartman Institute's "New Paths: Christians Engaging Israel" - Peter Pettit (Muhlenberg College)
4:00-6:00 p.m. Public Program: "The Question of a Christian Mission to Jews as a Key Factor in the Birth of the New Catholic-Jewish Relationship"
  • John Connelly (University of California, Berkeley), author of From Enemy to Brother: The Revolution in Catholic Teaching on the Jews, 1933-1965.
  • Respondents:
    • Thomas Ferguson (Manhattan College)
    • Adam Gregerman (Saint Joseph's University)
6:00-7:00 p.m. Reception
7:00 p.m.

Dinner and Annual Shevet Achim Award Celebration
[Faculty Atrium Room, Thomas Hall (lower level)]

Posthumous Honoree: Leon Klenicki, on the occasion of the publication of Toward the Future: Essays on Catholic-Jewish Relations in Memory of Rabbi Leon Klenicki.

Tributes by: Celia Deutsch, Eugene J. Fisher, Eric Greenberg, and A. James Rudin. Response by: Myra Cohen Klenicki
9:30 p.m. Transfer back to hotel.
Monday, October 21, 2013
7:00 a.m. Breakfast at hotel (Board meeting over breakfast)
8:30 a.m. Transfer from hotel to the campus of Manhattan College
9:00-10:30 a.m. Panel: "Implementing a New Relationship with Jews among Christians"
  • Lectionary: Susan Auchincloss (faithnotfault.org)
  • Education: Kevin Dowd (Boston College)
  • Current Needs: Dennis McManus (USCCB)
10:45-11:45 a.m. Annual Business Meeting (only institutional members may vote)
12:00 - 1:15 p.m. Lunch
1:15-2:45 p.m. Panel: "Strategies for Addressing Interreligious Prejudice, Hatred, and Fear Today"

Mehnaz Afridi (Manhattan College)

David Gibson (Religion News Service)

Mark Weitzman (Museum of Tolerance)
2:45 - 3:00 p.m. Conclusion