Together with five plenary sessions, a trip to Bad Ischl, evening program, music and more there will be a total of 20 workshops in four workshop sessions, which will address a wide range of themes related to the conference theme, Jewish-Christian and Jewish-Christian-Muslim relations, and interreligious dialogue in general.
Workshop Session A (Monday afternoon):
- Psalms in Dialogue. Encountering the Hebrew Bible Tradition as a Dialogical Space
Susanne Lechner-Masser, Susanne Plietzsch - Paths to Holiness: Exploring Interreligious Perspectives
Elena Dini, Reuven Firestone, Heidi Hadsell, Hannan M. Hassan, Morteza Rezazadeh - "Couragiert!" – United Against Antisemitism and Islamophobia
Mustafa Cimşit, Andrew Steiman - War and Peace / Just War and Just Peace as Topic in Jewish-Christian Dialogue
Wolfgang Hüllstrung, Ophir Yarden - The Challenge of Authentically Jewish Egalitarian Weddings
Josh Weiner
Workshop Session B (Tuesday morning):
- Receiving Shabbat: Receiving Holiness
Michael Shire - Orthodox Christian – Jewish Relations: Updates on a Different Dialogue - Panel Presentation and Discussion
Michael G. Azar, Shoshana Gelfand, Geoffrey Ready, David Fox Sandmel - Holiness in Time: Understanding the Seasons of Jewish and Christian Worship
Mary C. Boys, Dalia Marx - Storying/ed Dialogue: How can we use Successful Stories of Jewish-Christian Encounters as a Tool to Facilitate Difficult Conversations Across Boundaries of Difference?
Héctor Acero Ferrer, Lucy Thorson - Exploring Holiness: Scriptural Reasoning Across Abrahamic Traditions
Fariza Bisaeva, Bianca Plattner
Workshop Session C (Wednesday morning):
- Holiness in Dialogue: Exploring (Sacred) Spaces and Interreligious Engagement
Julia Feldbauer, Tyson Herberger, Elisabeth Höftberger, Sonia Wiedemann - Catholic-Jewish Collaboration in Combatting Antisemitism through Education, Clergy Formation Opportunities, and Young Leadership Development
Rebecca Cohen, Noam Marans - #Jewish-and-Christian: Closer than you Think?
Alexander Grodensky, Ursula Rudnick, Katarzyna Kowalska, Evelyne Will-Mueller - Holy Friendships in Unholy Days: Interreligious Relationships as Source & Method
Heather Miller Rubens, Ellen Procario-Foley - Be "Pharisees" as I am a "Pharisee"? Reflections on Leviticus 19:2 Starting from Rabbinic Interpretations
David Fox Sandmel, Joseph Sievers
Workshop Session D (Wednesday afternoon):
- Holiness: Gift and Task for Today’s Troubled World?
Pavol Bargár, Celia Deutsch, Patrick Morrow, Michael Trainor - Enhancing the Holy Work of Jewish-Christian Relations Amid the Wounds of the Israel-Hamas War
Phil Cunningham, Adam Gregerman - Kedoshim ti’hiyu—You Shall be Holy (Lev 19:2): The Jewish Search for Holiness Within
Marcia Plumb - Practical Holiness and the Messianic Possibility
Erik Ross, Elisheva Salamo - Holy Language and a ‘War of Words’: Can a Listening and Learning Model Bridge Community Divisions over Language?
James Roberts, Mirella Yandoli