Learning from Elie Wiesel Panel 2 In Faith: Jewish and Christian Theology after the Holocaust

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Professor Abigail Gillman, Interim Director of the Elie Wiesel Center for Jewish Studies and Professor of German, Hebrew, and Jewish Studies, leads a panel of experts discussing Elie Wiesel’s reading of the Akedah or Binding of Isaac, a text that resonates with the father-son relationship that looms large in Christian theology and Jewish  experience. With Sister Mary Boys (Union Theological Seminary), Sharon Portnoff (Connecticut College), Rabbi Joe Kanofsky (Toronto), and Jonathan Rosen (New York). 
September 17, 2017

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