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The broadcast program Building Bridges, which is dedicated to intercultural harmony, is produced by San Francisco station WTPN. The following interview with Rabbi Burton L. Visotzky, Appleman Professor of Midrash and Interreligious Studies at JTS, Louis Stein Director of the Louis Finkstein Institute for Religious and Social Studies, and director of the Milstein Center for Interreligious Dialogue, covers his opinions on international interreligious engagement. He also discusses the JTS-Hartford Seminary partnership, which allows JTS students to attend Hartford Seminary classes. Hartford is a unique Christian seminary where approximately 30 percent of the student body is comprised of Muslims studying in the chaplaincy program.
An inter-religious discussion on the religious imperative for women to cover their head featuring Dr. Mary Boys, of Union Theological Seminary, Rori Picker Neiss of Yeshivat Maharat and Tayyibah Taylor of Azizah Magazine. Moderated by Dr. Carol Ingall of the Jewish Theological Seminary.
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Published 03/22/12
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