ICJS offers programs for religious leaders—both ordained and lay leaders—to increase their interreligious literacy, build resilient networks with one another, deepen understanding across differences.
ICJS offers programs for religious leaders—both ordained and lay leaders—to increase their interreligious literacy, build resilient networks with one another, deepen understanding across differences.
The ICJS Congregational Leaders Fellowship is a year-long intensive program in which leaders within religious communities come together across traditions to promote interreligious understanding, deepen relationships, and cultivate spaces of belonging in order to combat religious bigotry and hatred.
Since 2013, ICJS has hosted rabbinical school and seminary students at a one-week intensive course (for credit) in Jewish-Christian Dialogue, in partnership with the Washington Theological Consortium. The program draws students from across the country who are the clergy of tomorrow and equips them to navigate the complex relationships across difference. Starting in 2022, ICJS will offer the first Muslim-Christian Emerging Religious Leaders Course for Muslim leaders-in-training and Christian seminarians.
I am what many (including myself) refer to as a “Jew by Choice.” Several years ago I decided to start exploring the option and process of conversion: I was in a committed, long-term relationship with my now husband who was raised Jewish and who felt strongly about raising any future children in the same faith…
Having studied Comparative Religion as my major in undergraduate studies at George Washington University, I have always had a profound respect and appreciation for all religions, particularly the monotheistic faiths. However, I have never interacted with the other faiths as intimately as I have this last year through ICJS’s Congregational Leaders Fellowship. This experience has…
It is almost impossible to describe how the ICJS Congregational Leaders Fellowship has helped me better understand the Abrahamic faith traditions and see each of our religions as expressions of our belief systems. While there are differences in beliefs and practices it seems that the essence of the God we honor is love. As an…