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Rabbi David Rosen to discuss Mideast conflict Oct. 19 at BYU

Rabbi David Rosen, president of the International Jewish Committee for Interreligious Consultations, will present “The Conflict in the Holy Land and Religious Peacemaking” on Thursday, Oct. 19 at 1 p.m. in 205 J. Reuben Clark Building on the Brigham Young University campus.

IJCIC represents world Jewry in its relations with other world religions.

Rosen is also director of the Department for Interreligious Affairs, director of the Heilbrunn Institute for International Interreligious Understanding of the American Jewish Committee, an honorary president of the International Council of Christians and Jews and an international president of the World Conference of Religions for Peace.

In November 2005, he was named a papal Knight Commander of the Order of St Gregory the Great for his outstanding contributions to promoting Catholic-Jewish reconciliation.

This lecture will be archived online. For more information on David M. Kennedy Center events, see the calendar online at http://kennedy.byu.edu.

Writer: Lee Simons

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