Rethinking our Attitude to the Other: A Muslim-Jewish Dialogue

Rabbi Alon Goshen-Gottstein in conversation with Dr. Timothy Gianotti 

Date: Tuesday November 10, 2009
Time: 7:30 p.m.
Location: Auditorium, Noor Cultural Centre
Admission: No charge

Rabbi Dr. Alon Goshen-Gottstein has been director of the Elijah Interfaith Institute (formerly the Elijah School for the Study of Wisdom in World Religions), and lecturer and director of the Center for the Study of Rabbinic Thought, Beit Morasha College, both in Jerusalem, since 1997. He received his Ph.D. from Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1986. From 1989 to 1999, he was a member of the Shalom Hartman Institute for Advanced Studies, Jerusalem. Stanford University Press published his The Sinner and the Amnesiac: The Rabbinic Invention of Elisha ben Abuya and Eleazar ben Arach in 2000, and his Israel in God’s Presence: An Introduction to Judaism for the Christian Student is forthcoming from Hendrickson Press. His nearly three dozen articles have appeared in edited collections and in such scholarly journals as Harvard Theological Review, Journal for the Study of Judaism, Journal of Literature and Theology, Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy, Ecumenism, and Studies in Interreligious Dialogue.

Dr. Timothy Gianotti is the current Noor Fellow in Islamic Studies at York University.