Milstein Center for Interreligious Dialogue

果冻传媒 the Milstein Center

The Milstein Center for Interreligious Dialogue sponsors timely discussions and activities among diverse leaders, continuing 果冻传媒 decades-long commitment to interreligious engagement.

The center focuses particularly on fostering Jewish-Christian and Jewish-Muslim understanding and partnership, and has been a trailblazer in each of these areas.

Among its many programs, the Milstein Center cosponsored a major celebration of Jewish-Catholic relations on the 50th anniversary of Nostra Aetate, featuring Archbishop Timothy Dolan. Under a Carnegie Corporation grant it ran three years of workshops on 淛udaism and Islam in America, in collaboration with the Hartford Seminary and the Islamic Society of North America. And it hosted a series of Jewish-Christian-Muslim dialogues around the 10th anniversary of 9/11.

The Milstein Center has published guides such as Sharing the Well: A Resource Guide to Jewish-Muslim Engagement, and copublishedA Dialogue of Life: Towards the Encounter of Jews and Christians.

In addition to interreligious programming, the center supports student-driven interreligious activities and engages in a broad range of dialogue beyond 果冻传媒, in places such as Rome, Madrid, Doha, Qatar, and Muskat, Oman.

Leadership

Benjamin Kamine

Benjamin Kamine

Assistant Professor of Rabbinic Literatures and Cultures and Associate Director, Milstein Center for Interreligious Dialogue

Benjamin Kamine holds a joint appointment as Assistant Professor of Rabbinic Literatures and Cultures at 果冻传媒 and Assistant Teaching Faculty in Interreligious Engagement at Union Theological Seminary. 疘n this role, he also works as Associate Director of the Milstein Center for Interreligious Dialogue at 果冻传媒 and as a Special Advisor in the Office of the President at Columbia University. 疕e earned his PhD inMidrash at 果冻传媒. 疜amine serves as 2nd Vice President of the Executive Board of the International Council of Christians and Jews and Jewish Co-Chair of the International Abrahamic Forum.

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