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Rabbi A. James Rudin
Rabbi A. James Rudin,
Senior Interreligious Adviser, American Jewish Committee (AJC), retired in 2000
as AJC's National Interreligious Affairs Director. A 1960 graduate of Hebrew
Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, he has been a leading figure in
interreligious affairs since 1968, when he joined the AJC staff. In 1997 he was
awarded the "Person of Reconciliation" Award from the Polish Council of
Christians and Jews in Warsaw and the Joseph Award given by the Villa Nazareth,
a Pontifical Institution. In 1999 the International Council of Christians and
Jews awarded him its Interfaith Medallion. He has led interreligious
delegations and conferences in many nations and was active in the civil rights
movement. In 2002 he was appointed Distinguished Visiting Professor of Religion
and Judaica at Saint Leo University. He writes a weekly commentary for the
Religion News Service/Newhouse Newspaper Syndicate and has published articles in
The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Newsday, New Catholic
Encyclopedia, Reform Judaism, The Kansas Historical Quarterly, Commonweal,
Encyclopedia Judaica, The Journal of Ecumenical Studies, The Christian Century,
and Christianity Today. He is the author of Israel for Christians:
Understanding Modern Israel and co-editor of Evangelicals and Jews in
Conversation, Evangelicals and Jews in an Age of Pluralism, Twenty
Years of Jewish-Catholic Relations, and A Time to Speak: The
Evangelical-Jewish Encounter. He is co-author of Why Me? Why Anyone
and Prison or Paradise? The New Religious Cults (with his wife Marcia
Rudin).
Conference 2003 CT: Agenda
Spiritual Intelligence, the Behavioral Sciences, and the Humanities - book review by Rabbi A. J. Rudin
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