Annual Interfaith Forum

2020: From Part of the Problem to Part of the Solution - Antisemitism and the Church

Date: February 25, 2020
Location: Roski Dining Room, University Hall

Featuring:

• Keynote lecture by Rabbi David Rosen, KSG, CBE, director of interreligious affairs for the American Jewish Committee and its Robert and Harriet Heilbrunn Institute for International Interreligious Understanding.
• Panel discussion with Father Alexei Smith, director of ecumenical and interreligious affairs for the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, and Richard Hirschhaut, director of AJC Los Angeles and moderated by Father Cyril Hovorun, acting director of the Huffington Ecumenical Institute.

Presented By:

• This year's forum is generously cosponsored by the Academy for Jewish Religion, Academy for Jewish Religion California, American Jewish Committee, and Huffington Ecumenical Institute.

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2019: Betrayal or Salvation? Religious Conversion During the Holocaust

Date: February 26, 2019
Location: Roski Dining Room, University Hall

Featuring:

• A lecture by Doris Bergen, The Chancellor Rose and Ray Wolfe Professor of Holocaust Studies at University of Toronto.
• Panel discussion with Allan Figueroa Deck, S.J., professor of theological studies at Loyola Marymount University, and Rabbi Mark Diamond, lecturer in Jewish studies at Loyola Marymount University

Presented By:

• LMU Departments of Jewish Studies and Catholic Studies

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2018: The Decalogue: Renewing Modern Life

Date: February 6, 2018
Location: Ahmanson Auditorium, University Hall

Featuring:

• A panel discussion to kick off a year of enhanced community programming focused on the Decalogue and celebrating the 10th anniversary of Jewish Studies at LMU.
• Book presentation by David Hazony, author of "The Ten Commandments: How Our Most Ancient Moral Text Can Renew Modern Life."
• Panel discussion with Monica Osborne, author of "The Midrashic Impulse and the Contemporary Literary Response to Trauma," Father Alexei Smith, director of ecumenical and interreligious affairs for the Archdiocese of Los Angeles; and moderated by David Suissa, editor of the Jewish Journal.

Presented By:

• LMU Departments of Jewish Studies and Catholic Studies

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‌2017: The Jewish Cardinal

Date: February 22, 2017
Location: Ahmanson Auditorium, University Hall

Featuring:

• Film Screening of 'The Jewish Cardinal,' directed by Ilan Duran Cohen, which tells the amazing true story of Jean-Marie Lustiger, the son of Polish-Jewish immigrants, who maintained his cultural identity as a Jew even after converting to Catholicism at a young age, and later joining the priesthood.
• Response by John Connelly, Professor of History at University of California Berkeley, and Rabbi Mark Diamond, Lecturer at Loyola Marymount University.

Sponsors:

• LMU Departments of History and Theological Studies

‌2015: A Jubilee for Nostra Aetate: The Vatican II Revolution - the Ongoing Struggle for Jewish-Catholic Reconciliation
A joint event with the 39th Annual Catholic-Jewish Women's Conference

D‌ate: November 9, 2015
Location: Roski Dining Room, University Hall

Featuring:

• Introduction by Julie Heath Elliott and Linda Stock, Co-chairs of the Catholic-Jewish Women's Conference
• Lectures by Mary C. Boys, SNJM, Ed.D., Dean of Academic Affairs and Professor of Theology at Union Theological Seminary; and Amy-Jill Levine, Ph.D., Professor of New Testament and Jewish Studies at Vanderbilt University
• Facilitated dialogue with Susan Abraham, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Theological Studies at Loyola Marymount University; and Holli Levitsky, Ph.D., Director of Jewish Studies at Loyola Marymount University
• Book signing

Sponsors:

• The Martin Gang Institute
• The Lily Faculty Seminar

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