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The Jewish World in 2020
Day 3: Is Religion Irrelevant?
| WED |
| 18 |
| AUG |
Special daily student Price: £17.50
(50% discount for university students and full time Jewish Movement workers)
Day 3 of the August Seminar.
10.30am - 12.30pm
Does Interfaith Dialogue Make a Difference? Is the work that Jews do to engage with the wider world achieving anything at all? Are Interfaith meetings gatherings of similarly minded liberal people, while the bigots continue to bash hell out of each other outside the room? With David Gifford (CCJ), Adam Ford, Stephen Shashoua (Three Faiths Forum) and Dr Rafi Zarum (tbc). Chair: Trudy Gold.
1.30pm - 3.00pm
2011 Census: In what ways might we use the forthcoming 2010 Census for the Benefit of the British Jewish Community? For the first time ever, the UK Census conducted in 2001 included a voluntary question about religion. That, in turn, gave us the most detailed and accurate view we have ever had about Jews in Britain. What did it tell us, what opportunities did it provide, and in what ways might we use the forthcoming 2011 Census for the benefit of the British Jewish community? with Jon Boyd (JPR)
3.15pm - 4.30pm
Is Religion Helpful, Irrelevant or Worse? In the face of the rise of religious extremism on the one hand and the new assertive atheism on the other, is religion still a helpful element in 21st century society? Or is it just a hobby for a handful of people? With Rabbi Professor Jonathan Magonet and Rabbi Barry Marcus. Chair: Alan Fell.
Biographies:
David Gifford is the Chief Executive of the Council of Christians and Jews (CCJ) in the UK and has been in the post for 4 years. David has followed a varied international career on all continents; after several years in education he went to the South Pacific Islands and taught at a local high school whilst tutoring in Philosophy of Science for the University of the South Pacific in Suva, Fiji. Returning to the UK, David worked for an international Christian charity specializing in leprosy. After a two-year part time spell as a consultant to the Federation de Societies Croix Rouges in Geneva (International Red Cross), Switzerland and working again in the South Pacific, David was invited to head the European work of an International housing charity in the USA. Whilst there he opened new work in Central Europe and Kyrgyzstan and expanded work in Poland, Portugal and Hungary. A necessitated return to the UK saw a directorship in marketing and communications with a privatized UN agency which culminated in an MD post for diagnostic services. The shift to working for interfaith understanding and dialogue in CCJ could not have been more stark! David is a minister in the Church of England and has been so for 30 years.
Adam Ford was the Anglican chaplain to St Paul's Girls' School for twenty-five years and Priest-in-Ordinary to The Queen at the Chapel Royal. He has lectured on religion, astronomy, and ethics in schools in New York, Sydney, and Buenos Aires. Adam is also a regular guest lecturer at the LJCC.
Trudy Gold is LJCC’s CEO and Senior Lecturer. Trudy specialises in all aspects of the last two hundred years of Jewish history. She was the editor-in chief of the acclaimed teaching pack ‘Lessons of the Holocaust’ and consultant for the book ‘The Timechart History of Jewish Civilisation’.
Jonathan Boyd is the Executive Director of the Institute for Jewish Policy Research (JPR). He is a specialist in contemporary Jewry and holds a BA and MA in Modern Jewish History from University College London. His doctoral work at the University of Nottingham is in the field of educational philosophy. A Jerusalem Fellow at the Mandel Institute in Israel, he has held professional positions in research and policy at the JDC International Centre for Community Development in London and Paris, the Jewish Agency in London and New York, the United Jewish Israel Appeal and the Holocaust Educational Trust.
Rabbi Professor Jonathan Magonet retired recently as Principal of Leo Baeck College where he also taught Hebrew Bible. For most of forty years he has been engaged in Jewish-Christian and Jewish-Christian-Muslim dialogue in the UK and Germany. He has edited prayerbooks for the UK Reform movement and published a number of books including 'A Rabbi Reads the Bible', 'A Rabbi Reads the Psalms' and 'Talking to the Other: Jewish Interfaith Dialogue with Christians and Muslims'.
Rabbi Barry Marcus is based at the Central Synagogue in London. Born in South Africa, he is a descendent of a long line of distinguished Rabbis. He has lectured at the University of Witwatersrand and Yeshiva College in Johannesburg, where he also founded and directed a Crisis Centre. He served as Rabbi of one of the largest communities in Johannesberg and also in Israel. Rabbi Marcus is well-known for his rabbinical and pastoral duties in the UK, Israel and South Africa. Also active in promoting Holocaust remembrance and education in 1998, he pioneered the concept of a one-day educational trip to Auschwitz in which over 10,000 have participated to date.
Stephen Shashoua is the Director of the Three Faiths Forum. Born in Canada, of Iraqi-Jewish descent, Stephen has been involved in communal and voluntary organisations all his life. He studied Journalism, Anthropology, Teaching and English Literature & has worked internationally with students of all ages, cultures and abilities. He is a freeman of the City of London, fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and is co-Founder of Iraq in Common.
To book for the day click "Book Now" above.
To book for the whole seminar click here.
If you would like to book for an individual session please call us on 020 8457 5000.
(50% discount for university students and full time Jewish Movement workers)
Day 3 of the August Seminar.
10.30am - 12.30pm
Does Interfaith Dialogue Make a Difference? Is the work that Jews do to engage with the wider world achieving anything at all? Are Interfaith meetings gatherings of similarly minded liberal people, while the bigots continue to bash hell out of each other outside the room? With David Gifford (CCJ), Adam Ford, Stephen Shashoua (Three Faiths Forum) and Dr Rafi Zarum (tbc). Chair: Trudy Gold.
1.30pm - 3.00pm
2011 Census: In what ways might we use the forthcoming 2010 Census for the Benefit of the British Jewish Community? For the first time ever, the UK Census conducted in 2001 included a voluntary question about religion. That, in turn, gave us the most detailed and accurate view we have ever had about Jews in Britain. What did it tell us, what opportunities did it provide, and in what ways might we use the forthcoming 2011 Census for the benefit of the British Jewish community? with Jon Boyd (JPR)
3.15pm - 4.30pm
Is Religion Helpful, Irrelevant or Worse? In the face of the rise of religious extremism on the one hand and the new assertive atheism on the other, is religion still a helpful element in 21st century society? Or is it just a hobby for a handful of people? With Rabbi Professor Jonathan Magonet and Rabbi Barry Marcus. Chair: Alan Fell.
Biographies:
David Gifford is the Chief Executive of the Council of Christians and Jews (CCJ) in the UK and has been in the post for 4 years. David has followed a varied international career on all continents; after several years in education he went to the South Pacific Islands and taught at a local high school whilst tutoring in Philosophy of Science for the University of the South Pacific in Suva, Fiji. Returning to the UK, David worked for an international Christian charity specializing in leprosy. After a two-year part time spell as a consultant to the Federation de Societies Croix Rouges in Geneva (International Red Cross), Switzerland and working again in the South Pacific, David was invited to head the European work of an International housing charity in the USA. Whilst there he opened new work in Central Europe and Kyrgyzstan and expanded work in Poland, Portugal and Hungary. A necessitated return to the UK saw a directorship in marketing and communications with a privatized UN agency which culminated in an MD post for diagnostic services. The shift to working for interfaith understanding and dialogue in CCJ could not have been more stark! David is a minister in the Church of England and has been so for 30 years.
Adam Ford was the Anglican chaplain to St Paul's Girls' School for twenty-five years and Priest-in-Ordinary to The Queen at the Chapel Royal. He has lectured on religion, astronomy, and ethics in schools in New York, Sydney, and Buenos Aires. Adam is also a regular guest lecturer at the LJCC.
Trudy Gold is LJCC’s CEO and Senior Lecturer. Trudy specialises in all aspects of the last two hundred years of Jewish history. She was the editor-in chief of the acclaimed teaching pack ‘Lessons of the Holocaust’ and consultant for the book ‘The Timechart History of Jewish Civilisation’.
Jonathan Boyd is the Executive Director of the Institute for Jewish Policy Research (JPR). He is a specialist in contemporary Jewry and holds a BA and MA in Modern Jewish History from University College London. His doctoral work at the University of Nottingham is in the field of educational philosophy. A Jerusalem Fellow at the Mandel Institute in Israel, he has held professional positions in research and policy at the JDC International Centre for Community Development in London and Paris, the Jewish Agency in London and New York, the United Jewish Israel Appeal and the Holocaust Educational Trust.
Rabbi Professor Jonathan Magonet retired recently as Principal of Leo Baeck College where he also taught Hebrew Bible. For most of forty years he has been engaged in Jewish-Christian and Jewish-Christian-Muslim dialogue in the UK and Germany. He has edited prayerbooks for the UK Reform movement and published a number of books including 'A Rabbi Reads the Bible', 'A Rabbi Reads the Psalms' and 'Talking to the Other: Jewish Interfaith Dialogue with Christians and Muslims'.
Rabbi Barry Marcus is based at the Central Synagogue in London. Born in South Africa, he is a descendent of a long line of distinguished Rabbis. He has lectured at the University of Witwatersrand and Yeshiva College in Johannesburg, where he also founded and directed a Crisis Centre. He served as Rabbi of one of the largest communities in Johannesberg and also in Israel. Rabbi Marcus is well-known for his rabbinical and pastoral duties in the UK, Israel and South Africa. Also active in promoting Holocaust remembrance and education in 1998, he pioneered the concept of a one-day educational trip to Auschwitz in which over 10,000 have participated to date.
Stephen Shashoua is the Director of the Three Faiths Forum. Born in Canada, of Iraqi-Jewish descent, Stephen has been involved in communal and voluntary organisations all his life. He studied Journalism, Anthropology, Teaching and English Literature & has worked internationally with students of all ages, cultures and abilities. He is a freeman of the City of London, fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and is co-Founder of Iraq in Common.
To book for the day click "Book Now" above.
To book for the whole seminar click here.
If you would like to book for an individual session please call us on 020 8457 5000.