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).

Contributions by author

Conference 2003: CT Agenda
Spiritual Intelligence, the Behavioral Sciences, and the Humanities - book review by Rabbi A. J. Rudin