This new BYU student group seeks interfaith understanding
01/26/2018 05:21:51 PM
"PROVO — Maddie Blonquist celebrated the end of one interfaith adventure and the beginning of another Thursday at the front of Brigham Young University's Harold B. Lee Library auditorium...Her sacred sounds research allowed just that, bringing her out of her comfort zone and into new houses of worship. She met Imam Muhammed Mehtar, the religious leader for the Khadeeja Islamic Center in West Valley City, and Wendy Bat-Sarah, cantor for Congregation Kol Ami in Salt Lake City, who both sat with her during Thursday morning's event."
Local choirs sing of this WWII hero on International Holocaust Remembrance Day
01/18/2018 10:53:15 AM
"Daniel Mattis was just 7 years old when he and his family fled their home in Belgium, just as the Nazis were bombing Brussels in 1940. Their train was the last to leave the station before the tracks were destroyed.
The Mattis family had obtained visas to Brazil, but their escape seemed impossible."
Read on below to learn more about Sousa Mendes's role in saving Jews during World War II and about the thought process behind the oratorio written in his honor.
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Jewish-LDS Academic Dialogue
12/29/2017 01:11:09 PM
Upcoming plans and topics:
Spring 2019 – Israel; 6th Dialogue Series
Currently planning for a week-long study seminar and dialogue. Topics TBD.
Spring 2018 – Loyola Marymount in Los Angeles, California; 5thDialogue Series
Jews and Mormons meeting at a Catholic University!!! Topics to be determined.
November 3, 2017 – Video Conference; 4th Dialogue Series
This is planned as a video conference, discussing the topics of:
Core Documents and Theories of Interfaith Engagement
Women in Jewish & Mormon Literature
Women and Lived Religion in Jewish & Mormon Culture
https://ro.byu.edu/jewish-lds-academic-dialogue
Utah Valley University Anti-Semitism Panel
12/21/2017 10:41:37 AM
Cantor Wendy Bat-Sarah participated in a panel hosted by the Interfaith Student Council at Utah Valley University along with Rabbi David Levinsky and Rabbi Benny Zippel.
Follow the link below to read more about it:
With new daughter, Rabbi Schwartzman is leaving, so Utah's largest Jewish Synagogue looks for a new leader
11/21/2017 01:08:24 PM
"For more than seven years, Ilana Schwartzman has led Utah’s largest Jewish congregation, but the third-generation rabbi and first-time mother is leaving Salt Lake City’s Congregation Kol Ami to be closer to family on the East Coast.
“With the changes to my family makeup [she now has a baby daughter], I am looking forward to [moving] closer to [husband] Art’s and my support systems,” the 39-year-old rabbi recently announced to her 350-family east-side synagogue."
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