I've seen interfaith dialogue work really well, kind of ineptly, and really, really badly.1 I've noticed some things that make a difference in where on the spectrum an effort is likely to fall. So, some observations.
To people who are interested in it at all, religion is generally an important ( Read more... )

The tulips are starting to appear in my yard. We sure went from snow to spring-verging-on-summer in a hurry. But it's supposed to be in the 30s over the weekend ( Read more... )

This is the d'var torah I gave yesterday morning. I recommend first reading Exodus 34:10-17.
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( Simchat Torah: rejoicing with the torah )

Yom Kippur was a good experience this year.
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A quick aside: one of the articles I came home with ( Read more... )

Sunday afternoon I went to that interfaith gathering ( Read more... )

That interfaith discussion/presentation that I was talking about last week is this Sunday at 3pm at the Pittsburgh Interfaith Center, formerly known as St. Agnes Church, at 3333 Fifth Avenue. That's just before Craft if you're headed inbound (which is the only way you can legally go unless you're driving a bus). It's open to the public but poorly ( Read more... )

Well, that was, um, ...community service. :-)
A couple weeks ago I wrote about a local group that was trying to organize some interfaith prayer services. They wanted to add a Jew to their group, they contacted my rabbi, and he sent me. The organizational meeting was tonight. ( Read more... )

The latest issue of Moment reproduces part of a catalogue page listing "communion wafers (kosher)". It makes me wonder who the target market is, but sadly, that information is absent.
But that's not what I'm here to write about...
My rabbi does a lot of interfaith work locally, mostly ( Read more... )