1987 - 1997
Ten Years of Learning for the Future
from the Lessons of Our Past

Welcome to The Institute Newsletter Online
Please peruse two sample issues:



Volume 6
Autumn 1996

ICJS Launches Tenth-Anniversary Year with Bill Moyers and Genesis

by Janis Koch


The Book of Genesis continues to exert a surprising magnetism, especially when Bill Moyers is the one talking about it.


Running Thoughts:
Genesis and Life on the Streets

by Valerie Williams, ICJS Staff


Director's Report

Rev. Dr. Christopher M. Leighton


Chizuk Amuno Celebrates 125 Years
with Interfaith Conversations


ICJS Preaching Colloquia:
Fresh Looks At Familiar Texts


by Rev. John Roberts, Woodbrook Baptist Church


Reflections on the 1995 ICJS
Study Tour To Israel


Mixed Company--
Reflections on a Holy Land


Kabbalist Synagogue in Safed
(The "Blue" Synagogue)


All In The Family:
Forum Climbs Geneological Trees

by Richard Shenfeld


Violence Unveiled:
Supersessionism Dangerously Veiled


by Dr. Rosann M. Catalano,
ICJS Staff


ICJS Jewish Scholars Group
on Christianity: Year One


by Rabbi Dr. Michael A. Signer,
University of Notre Dame


Recommended Reading



Volume 5
Summer 1995

Speaking After the Whirlwind:
The Legacy of Job


by Rabbi David Sulomm Stein,
Congregation Beit Tikvah


This year, the ICJS conducted an inquiry into the Book of Job.


Director's Report

Rev. Dr. Christopher M. Leighton


Cain and Abel:
Faith and Fratricide

Annual Beit Midrash with Noam Zion


Responding to the Challenge of Religious and Ethnic Diversity


Colloquium Addresses
Preaching Difficult Texts


Judas Betrays Jesus
(Mark 14:43-45)

Carl Edwards


Jesus Foretells Judas's Betrayal (John 13:21-30)

John Roberts


The Death of Judas
(Matthew 27:3-5a)

Peter Culman


ICJS Launches
Jewish Scholars Group


ICJS Jewish Scholar Participants


Recommended Reading
Director's Choice

Recommended Reading
From ICJS Supportters


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