Dialogue and Interreligious Engagement

Dialogue Across Difference

Dialogue invites us to bring our commitments to each conversation and calls for patience, humility, curiosity, and courage. The outcome of dialogue does not require agreement, and meaningful relationships can exist even where there are irreconcilable differences. We believe that dialogue around religious difference deepens understanding and is an essential tool for connecting communities.

Faith Inside & Out: Exploring Judaism, Christianity & Islam

Explore our curated resources, assembled with the assistance of ICJS scholars, to help you explore Judaism, Christianity, and Islam from both vantage points. This list is not meant to be exhaustive. We hope this serves as a launching pad to your own learning.

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Facilitated Dialogues: Can We Talk? Urgent Interreligious Conversations in a Time of War

Meaningful relationships exist even with irreconcilable differences.

In the spirit of continuing intereligious dialogue, even under the most difficult of circumstances, ICJS offers Can We Talk? Urgent Interreligious Conversations in a Time of War, a three-option package to facilitate conversations for groups (schools, staffs, organizations, congregations) about Israel and Gaza, particularly as related to identities and issues rooted in religious difference.

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Resources

Debate vs. Dialogue

Everyone wants to be heard, but a conversation cannot be had if everyone is talking over each other. Use these tips to help navigate difficult conversations.

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I and Thou

Martin Buber’s “I and Thou” is the classic text articulating a philosophy of dialogue. ICJS Jewish Scholar Ben Sax shares his insights into this concept that is both seemingly simple, and at the same time, deeply profound.

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Lived Diversity

This 13-minute video captures the experiences of our interreligious staff around these three holidays. We’ve also created a Dialogue Facilitation Guide and resources for further reading.

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Guidelines for Effective Dialogue

A downloadable resource offering practical tips for engaging in Dialogue over Debate.

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Planning an Interfaith Event?

These 10 questions aim to spark important conversations among planners and decision-makers to create an inclusive and respectful interfaith event.

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Minicourses On Demand

Martin Buber and the Life of Dialogue

Martin Buber is one the most influential thinkers of the 20th century. This course explored his notion of dialogue as expressed in his corpus of writing, ranging from comparative mysticism to biblical commentary, existentialism to poetry, philosophy to cultural Zionism, and psychology to diplomacy.

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Events On Demand

Martin Buber: A Life of Faith and Dissent

Following up on his recent course, ICJS Jewish Scholar Benjamin Sax led a conversation with Paul Mendes-Flohr, his friend and mentor, on his seminal biography, Martin Buber: A Life of Faith and Dissent.

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