| Dear Friend, As our Jewish friends and neighbors prepare for the celebration of Rosh Hashanah on Friday night, we wish all a good and sweet new year. WIth many celebrating these holy days in virtual spaces, we recognize that this year continues to be unlike any other. ICJS also is celebrating new beginnings and new ways of being together as we begin our online programs this fall. It is my great pleasure to invite you to get to know ICJS Muslim Scholar Zeyneb Sayilgan at this afternoon’s online meet & greet. I trust that you will enjoy learning with Zeyneb in the years ahead, and look forward to celebrating her arrival in Baltimore with you today at 4:00 p.m. I am also delighted to announce that ICJS will be marking the 20th anniversary of the publication of Dabru Emet with an online academic forum. In the late 1990s, ICJS hosted the Jewish Scholars Project in Baltimore, Maryland. After several years of meeting, four interdenominational Jewish scholars published Dabru Emet (“Speak Truth”) as a full-page statement in The New York Times, The Baltimore Sun, and other major newspapers and religious internet sites on September 10, 2000. Consisting of eight claims, Dabru Emet is a groundbreaking Jewish statement on Christianity. As an organization devoted to inquiry around religion and religious difference, ICJS welcomed robust debate around Dabru Emet when it was published 20 years ago. In that same spirit, we look forward to scholars and thinkers from around the world and across disciplines revisiting Dabru Emet in our present moment. These short essays will be posted in cooperation with American Religion in a public-facing online forum. I am grateful to celebrate new years, new beginnings, and important milestones with this amazing interreligious community. | | | | |
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