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About the Participants
Benjamin E. Sax, Ph.D. | Author
Ben Sax is the Jewish Scholar and Head of Scholarship at the Institute for Islamic, Christian, and Jewish Studies in Baltimore. Ben is an experienced professor, university administrator, scholar, award-winning teacher, public speaker, and practitioner and facilitator of interreligious dialogue. Ben holds degrees from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst (B.A., Social Thought and Political Economy), the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (M.A., Jewish Thought), and the University of Chicago (Ph.D., History of Judaism). He also studied at Middlebury College’s Summer Language School, where he received a Zertifikat ÖSD Mittelstufe, M.D. in German Language and Culture.
Tom Hall | Moderator
Tom Hall is Senior News Analyst at WYPR, Baltimore’s NPR affiliate, where he previously hosted the award-winning daily news and public affairs program Midday for 10 years. During his tenure, Midday received an Edward R. Murrow Regional Award and was named Outstanding Talk Show by the Chesapeake Associated Press Broadcasters Association. Previously, he served as music director of the Baltimore Choral Arts Society for more than three decades. In 2026, Hall received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Creative Alliance and was named a Visiting Fellow at Johns Hopkins University’s SNF Agora Institute. He is co-author of The Bach Passions in Our Time: Contending with the Legacy of Antisemitism, published by ICJS.