July 28, 2010 – News of Abrahamic Interest
Ordinarily the AFR biweekly Newsletter contains items from the U.S. and abroad that reinforce the theme of the Abrahamic family as a family and provide discussion and dialogue material for the many Abrahamic NGO’s in our network. From time to time, however, we will publish a single, longer document that we believe all of our readers will want to print out, read carefully and savor because of its intellectual and spiritual quality.
Thus this week, we provide a link to the keynote speech delivered by Susannah Heschel at the annual meeting of the International Council of Christians and Jews in Istanbul in June. We reported on the meeting in general recently noting that this was the first time the ICCJ, founded in 1947, met in a majority Muslim country, under the key Qur’anic title “So That You May Know One Another.”
Susannah refers early in her speech to her legendary father, the late Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, who was one of the greatest American Abrahamic moral leaders in teaching and practice in the twentieth century. He spread his arms wide to embrace all of God’s children. Susannah is a distinguished teacher and scholar in her own right as you will see. We are honored to be able to share her talk with our ever widening network of AFR friends.
Her speech will become a permanent document in the Theory Section of our Web site