Symposium: Migrant Laborers in Israel and Their Religious World

On Tuesday, November 26, 2013, the Jerusalem Institute and the Jerusalem Center for Jewish-Christian Relations hosted the Annual Symposium in Memory of Daniel Rossing, Founder and General Director of the Jerusalem Center for Jewish-Christian Relations, on the topic of: Migrant Laborers in Israel and Their Religious World.

 

Chair: Dr. Sarah Bernstein, Jerusalem Center for Jewish-Christian Relations

   

Greetings: Dr. Amnon Ramon, JIIS, Yad Ben-Zvi and the Dept. of Comparative Religion, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem

   

Remembering Daniel Rossing

Rabbi David Rosen, International Director of Interreligious Affairs, American Jewish Committee 

   

Between the State of Israel and the “Holy Land”: The Religious Arena of African Migrant Laborers and African Asylum Seekers

Prof. Galia Sabar, Dept. of Middle Eastern and African History, Tel Aviv University

   

The Catholic Church in Israel and the Challenges of Migration

Father David M. Neuhaus SJ, Latin Patriarchal Vicar, Pastoral Coordination for Migrants 

   

“From Shabbat to Shabbat: On the Balance between Work and Religious Community Life – Notes from the Religious World of Migrant Workers in Israel

Sister Monica Navalta, Secretary of the Coordinating Committee for the Catholic Church’s Work with Migrants