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About the Participants

Rebecca Carter-Chand | Author

Rebecca Carter-Chand is director of Programs on Ethics, Religion, and the Holocaust at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Mandel Center. She co-edited Religion, Ethnonationalism, and Antisemitism in the Era of the Two World Wars. Her research examines Christian minority groups in Nazi Germany. She serves on multiple editorial boards and on the Council of Centers on Christian-Jewish Relations and the American Academy of Religion and leads related scholarly programming.

Benjamin E. Sax, Ph D. | Facilitator

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.