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SUMMARY:2026 Spring Shapiro Lecture | Mara H. Benjamin\, Ph. D.
DESCRIPTION:2026 Spring Shapiro Lecture | Mara H. Benjamin\, Ph. D.\nDominion\, Stewardship and Other Ways of Being Earthling \nMany contemporary religious communities have increasingly prioritized climate action as a calling and a responsibility. Yet the classical teachings of Western traditions on the created world can hinder undertaking the climate action we need now. This lecture explores different ways Jewish sources imagine human beings in the created world. It then examines how the urgent work of responding to ecological crisis generates new questions for\, and approaches to\, religious traditions. \nMara H. Benjamin\, a 2024 Guggenheim Fellow\, is Irene Kaplan Leiwant Professor and Chair of Jewish Studies at Mount Holyoke College. She is a scholar of modern Jewish religious thought and a constructive Jewish theologian. Benjamin’s 2018 book\, “The Obligated Self: Maternal Subjectivity and Jewish Thought”\, received the 2019 American Academy of Religion Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion\, Constructive-Reflective category. She is also the author of Rosenzweig’s Bible: “Reinventing Scripture for Jewish Modernity (2009)”. Her current project analyzes the profound challenges ecological crisis pose to Jewish theology.
URL:https://ctu.edu/event/spring-shapiro-lecture-mara-benjamin-phd/
CATEGORIES:Catholic-Jewish Studies Program (CJSP),CTU
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260301T160000
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SUMMARY:Ramadan Iftar 2026
DESCRIPTION:The Role of Faith in Times of Crisis\n\n\n\n\n\nPanelists:\n\nKathryn Lohre\, Chief of Staff\, St. Olaf College \nKaren Ross\, PhD\, Director of the Pathways Program\, Catholic Theological Union \nTariq El Amin\, Resident Imam\, Masjid al-Taqwa\, Chicago
URL:https://ctu.edu/event/ramadan-iftar-2026/
CATEGORIES:Catholic-Jewish Studies Program (CJSP),CTU
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SUMMARY:Winter Shapiro Lecture - Rabbi Ariel Evan Mayse Ph.D.
DESCRIPTION:Rabbi Ariel Evan Mayse Ph.D.\nRewilding the Tree of Life: Jewish Law and Theology in the Time of Climate Change.\nThis lecture will explore how deep engagement with Jewish law and theology may help us respond to the rapidly mounting threats of global climate change and ecological degradation. Grappling with the full range of Jewish religious literature\, from Bible and Talmud to mysticism\, poetry\, and philosophy\, we shall consider how these sources can help us address such problems through developing a capacious approach to environmental ethics\, education\, and activism. At the same time\, we will engage deeply with Pope Francis’s remarkable environmental legacy\, most visible in his landmark Laudato Si\, and will put his writing into dialogue with Jewish legal and theological traditions. In doing so\, I will make an argument for the need to “rewild” both religious and secular education in our day. Rather than examining environmental problems from within highly curated fields of knowledge or parochial lenses\, we ought to approach scholarship and teaching as taking place within an ecotone—the fertile transitional realm between different ecosystems or communities that is a marshy site of complexity\, interdisciplinarity\, and collaboration across boundaries and differences. \nThis lecture is taking place on Tu B’Shvat\, the Jewish New Year for the trees and so is a perfect opportunity to think about how as humans we live in relationship with nature and the environment
URL:https://ctu.edu/event/winter-shapiro-lecture-rabbi-ariel-evan-mayse-ph-d/
CATEGORIES:Catholic-Jewish Studies Program (CJSP),CTU
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SUMMARY:Fall Shapiro Lecture - Ranana L. Dine Ph.D.
DESCRIPTION:Ranana L. Dine Ph.D. \n“Surely Bury: Jewish and Catholic Law\, Responding to Suicide\, and the Work of Catholic-Jewish Studies” \nWhen it comes to tricky questions of ethics and law\, Jewish and Catholic traditions at times converge\, and at times develop distinct approaches. In the history of Jewish and Catholic responses to suicide both patterns emerge. Both Judaism and Catholicism historically denied religious burial and funeral rites to those who had committed suicide on theological grounds. As modern conceptions of mental illness and pastoral care developed however\, both moved towards holding more compassionate responses to suicide\, including allowing religious burial. The ways each tradition changed its legal practice surrounding suicide reveals differences in Jewish and Catholic legal method\, and open the door to potentially contrasting responses to the legalization of physician-aid-in-dying (currently being debated in the Illinois State Senate). The comparison between Jewish and Catholic law regarding burial after suicide can help us think through the larger work and methods of Catholic-Jewish studies. Thus the talk will conclude with a discussion of how the study of Judaism\, and particularly deep ethical issues within it\, can illuminate developments in Catholic studies (and vice versa) and how that work will inspire the future program for the Catholic-Jewish studies program at Catholic Theological Union.
URL:https://ctu.edu/event/fall-shapiro-lecture/
CATEGORIES:Catholic-Jewish Studies Program (CJSP),CTU
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SUMMARY:Winter Shapiro | Shai Held - "Do Jews and Christians Love the Same Way?"
DESCRIPTION:Winter Shapiro Lecture Synopsis:  \nDo Jews and Christians Love the Same Way? \nFor centuries\, Christian anti-Judaic prejudice insisted that whereas Christianity is about love\, Judaism is about … something else\, like law\, or justice\, or obedience.  Rabbi Shai Held’s new book argues that Judaism\, no less than Christianity\, is a religion of love.  And yet Judaism is not just Christianity avant la lettre\, and so there are some key differences in the ways Jews and Christians tend to think and talk about love.  In this lecture\, we’ll consider some of those crucial differences: divergent understandings of human nature\, of the relationship between love and law\, of the relative priority of the particular and the universal\, and of the ideal of loving our enemies.
URL:https://ctu.edu/event/winter-shapiro-shai-held-do-jews-and-christians-love-the-same-way/
CATEGORIES:Bernardin Center,Catholic-Jewish Studies Program (CJSP)
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SUMMARY:Fall Shapiro Lecture
DESCRIPTION:What Bible\, Whose Bible:  Studying the Scripture of Others \n“The” Bible does not exist. Different religious communities have different Bibles\, with different books\, in different orders\, and different languages—and this matters.  How can we be fully sensitive to these when we study the scriptures of others?  By reflecting on The Jewish Annotated New Testament and The Bible With and Without Jesus\, Dr. Brettler will explore how we may maintain our own beliefs and commitments while still being attentive to others. \n 
URL:https://ctu.edu/event/2024-fall-shapiro-lecture/
CATEGORIES:Catholic-Jewish Studies Program (CJSP),CTU,Event
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SUMMARY:Spring 2024 Shapiro Lecture with Dr. Michal Bar-Asher Siegal
DESCRIPTION:It’s complicated! Network analysis and Jewish-Christian relationships in the Babylonian Talmud.\n  \nThis talk will introduce a new set of methodological tools for understanding the connections between Jews and Christians in late antiquity. Together with a zoologist\, Prof. Yossi Yovel\, Bar-Asher Siegal will use network analysis\, commonly used in sciences\, to generate models of inter-religious Christian-Jewish networks. Bar-Asher Siegal’s talk will demonstrate the scope\, nature\, and advantages of network analysis for revealing the complex intertwined evolution of the two religions. The network analysis approach is a tool for pointing scholarly research in new directions\, which only reveal themselves as a result of this type of mapping but can also lead us down new and exciting paths that are currently unknown. \n  \nThis event is in-person and online. \nA reception for in-person guests begins at 6:30 CT. \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n■ Location\n  \nRev. Donald Senior\, CP Academic Center at Catholic Theological Union \n5416 South Cornell Avenue\, Chicago\, Illinois 60615 \n 
URL:https://ctu.edu/event/spring-shapiro-lecture-spring-2024/
CATEGORIES:Catholic-Jewish Studies Program (CJSP)
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SUMMARY:Winter 2024 Shapiro Lecture with Dr. Joel Kaminsky
DESCRIPTION:Sibling Rivals: How the Idea of Chosenness Unites and Divides Jews and Christians\n  \nThe idea that God specially chose the people of Israel is central to the theology of the Hebrew Bible yet is among the most maligned and misunderstood biblical concepts. This talk aims to introduce major aspects of the Hebrew Bible’s election theology by highlighting how early Christian and ancient rabbinic sources adopted various facets of the biblical idea of chosenness in unique and at times inverse ways\, leaving Jews and Christians both united and divided by the scriptural heritage they share. \nThe Winter Shapiro Lecture will be offered Virtually. \nThe Lecture will begin at 7:00 CT. \nPlease register below to receive the event link. \n  \n\n\n 
URL:https://ctu.edu/event/winter-2024-shapiro-lecture-with-dr-joel-kaminsky/
CATEGORIES:Catholic-Jewish Studies Program (CJSP)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20231031T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20231031T153000
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SUMMARY:2023 Fall Shapiro Lecture | After Polemics: Dialogue and Awkward Silence in Contemporary Jewish-Christian Relations
DESCRIPTION:2023 Fall Shapiro Lecture\n■ The Shapiro Lecture will be offered Virtually\n■ Lecture will begin at 2:00 pm CT.\n■ Please register below to receive the meeting link \n 
URL:https://ctu.edu/event/2023-fall-shapiro-lecture-after-polemics-dialogue-and-awkward-silence-in-contemporary-jewish-christian-relations/
CATEGORIES:Catholic-Jewish Studies Program (CJSP)
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