religion

Ohavi Zedek Synagogue invites you to an extraordinary afternoon with scholars Imam Abdullah Antepli and Yossi Klein Halevi as they present "Across the Abyss: How a former anti-semite and a former Jewish extremist are changing the Muslim-Jewish Relationship."

While growing up in Turkey, Abdullah Antepli read anti-Semitic texts and saw Jews as evil. While growing up in Brooklyn, Yossi Klein Halevi, the son of a Holocaust survivor, was attracted to the militant politics of the Jewish far-right. Today, they run a revolutionary program, the Muslim Leadership Initiative, that is changing the way Muslims and Jews understand and relate to each other.

For 60 years, the best preachers of Vermont gave their best sermons on the day of General Election. Lawyer/historian Paul Gillies will examine the sermons, and the ministers who gave them, against the backdrop of Vermont’s struggle for statehood, through two wars, and the rising social movements of the era, including temperance, the abolition of slavery, and the official support of religion.

Part 2 of a 2-part program exploring the relationship between Religion and Government in the United States. Part 2 deals with the current implications with panelists Damir Nurkanovic, a practising Muslim, Debbie Ingram, Executive Director of Vermont Interfaith Action, and Roy V. Hill II, Trustee, Vermont Ecumenical Council & Bible Society.