Rabbi Daniel Brenner

I just found this on a site entitled “Not Perfection” — a reaction to the piece I wrote last month on the Presbyterian-Israel story. December 14, 2004 Lighting a candle against the darkness Instead of cursing the darkness (which is sometimes the first reaction here at not perfection), Rabbi Daniel Brenner, director of the Center for Multifaith Education at Auburn Theological Seminary, has written a thoughtful piece about the scapegoating of Israel on the part of the Presbyterian Church USA…

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The news about the Rabbis and Imams is slowly getting out — The Jewish Week and the New Jersey Jewish News will be carrying modified versions of my report below (I’ll post tommorow) . Also, a nice piece on http://www.catalyzerjournal.com/news/ combined my piece and the Ha’aretz article into a feature.

While the world’s eyes were affixed to visions of relief planes arriving on the beaches of Indonesia last week, something truly miraculous was taking place in the halls of an elegant palace in the land of waffles. Under heavy security, Orthodox chief rabbis from Austria, Bulgaria, Denmark, France, Israel, Morroco, Norway, Romania, and the Czek Republic spent four days in Brussels praying, singing, sharing stories and studying together with Imams and Shieks from Egypt, Indonesia, Iran, Nigeria, Kenya, and the…

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CENTER FOR MULTIFAITH EDUCATION DIRECTOR TO PARTICIPATE IN HISTORIC SUMMIT Rabbi Daniel Brenner, the director of Auburn’s Center for Multifaith Education, will be participating in the First World Congress of Imams and Rabbis for Peace this January in Brussels. Under the patronage of King Albert II of Belgium and King Mohammed VI of Morocco, the summit will bring together 100 religious leaders for dialogue and strategy sessions regarding religious tensions and conflict resolution. One of a handful of American rabbis…

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Smithsonian’s Folkways records has an album of Music of the Jews of Uganda Even when their leader sings syrupy Americanized brachot melodies they sound transcendent.

My piece in the NJ Jewish News is the “short take” on Get Religion, a nifty religion blog.

In the past week, I had the honor of both addressing and participating in the summit for interfaith respect described below. We met with UN Ambassador John Danforth (two days before his resignation….which was probably why he seemed out to lunch). Controversial Imams Enter Dialogue With Rabbis By Eric J. Greenberg December 3, 2004 Some of the most influential and controversial Islamic clerics in the Middle East are participating in a plan to launch what organizers describe as the first…

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Yesterday morning I particiapted in a conference put on by the Institute for Middle East Peace and Development (Stephen Cohen) which had a large group of Egyptian and Jordanian muslims who are interested in inter-religious paths to peace. In the evening, I met Rachel Bronson from the Council on Foreign Relations last night. She spoke at a parlor meeting on Israel/Saudi realtions. She was hopeful –perhaps post Arafat some things can move back on track to Taba.

The new information about Vital Signs is now up. Here’s the bio of Emanuel, one of the leads in the show.