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The Pardes Center for Judaism and Conflict Resolution (PCJCR):
PCJCR seeks to spread the theories, practice and values of Judaism and conflict resolution between individuals, families, communities and peoples, through the joint study of classic Jewish texts and contemporary academic conflict resolution literature. PCJCR partners with both academic institutions and NGOs in Israel and all over the world, who share the vision of combining the study and practice of mediation, conflict resolution and peacebuilding with Judaism. Pardes faculty member Rabbi Daniel Roth is the director of the center.
The Rodef Shalom Communication Agreement:
The PCJCR has initiated a communication agreement to encourage respectful disagreement and dialogue.
Click here to read the full agreement and to show your support and commitment!
PCJCR Programs:
The Rodef Shalom City Course
The Rodef Shalom On-line Course
The Rodef Shalom Retreat
Pardes Year Program: The Pardes Peace and Conflict Track
Community Education: Pursuing Peace in Judaism
Executive Learning Seminar: Mediation and Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) in Theory, Practice and Judaism (July 2012)
The Center for World Religions, Diplomacy and Conflict Resolution (CRDC):
CRDC engages in practice, education, and research concerning peacebuilding in conflicts where religion and culture play a significant role in both destructive conflict and peacebuilding. CRDC specializes in entrepreneurial engagement with partners, students, and supporters, who share the goal of promoting emerging networks of indigenous and global peacebuilders, mobilizing support for them, and creating linkages between peacebuilders, citizen diplomats and policy makers. Website.
Rabbi Dr. Marc Gopin The James H. Laue Professor of World Religions Diplomacy and Conflict Resolution, and director of the Center for World Religions, Diplomacy and Conflict Resolution at George Mason University.
The Rodef Shalom - Course Description
The rodef shalom is an ancient Jewish rabbinic model of a peacemaker, pursuing peace between individuals, families and communities. Throughout Jewish history there were people known in their communities as rodfei shalom (pursuers of peace) or mitavchei shalom (peace-brokers) who acted as the students of Aaron loving peace and pursuing peace.
This course seeks to transform participants into being rodfei shalom, students of Aaron: loving peace, loving people and pursuing peace between individuals, families, communities and nations. We will attempt to do this through the study of Torah, conflict resolution theories, group discussions, guest speakers and field trips. The course consists of six classes: (1) "Be of the Students of Aaron Rodef Shalom"'; (2) The Identity and Methods of the Rodef Shalom; (3) The Rodef Shalom and the Transformation of Conflicts from Destructive to Constructive; (4) The Rodef Shalom who turns Enemies into Friends; (5) The Rodef Shalom who Facilitates Direct Dialogue; (6) Ethical Dilemmas of the Rodef Shalom. This course is one unit taught in the Pardes year program in the framework of the Peace and Conflict Track.
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The Rodef Shalom - City Course
The Rodef Shalom course will be held in five cities across North America, with each class being taught once a month starting in December 2011 and concluding in May, 2012. The opening class will be co-taught by Rabbi Daniel Roth, Director of the Pardes Center for Judaism and Conflict Resolution, together with advanced Pardes Peace and Conflict Track alumni-teachers living in the various cities. The five subsequent classes will be taught primarily by the alumni- teachers.
The City Course is co-sponsored by Masa Israel.
Fee for the City Course: $25
New York
Local co-sponsor: B'nai Jeshurun
Dates\Locations\Times:
Class 1: Monday Dec 5, AJ Heschel High School, 20 West End Ave 6:30-9pm. Daniel Roth and Jonah Geffen with special guest Prof. Yechezkel Landau, Faculty Associate, Hartford Seminary, Tanenbaum Center Peacemaker in Action.
Class 2: Wednesday January 18, Bnai Jeshurun Sanctuary, 257 W. 88th Street 7-9pm
Class 3: Wednesday February 15, Bnai Jeshurun Sanctuary, 257 W. 88th Street 7-9pm
Class 4: Wednesday March 21, Bnai Jeshurun Sanctuary, 257 W. 88th Street 7-9pm
Class 5: Wednesday May 2, Bnai Jeshurun Sanctuary, 257 W. 88th Street 7-9pm
Class 6: Wednesday May 30, Bnai Jeshurun Sanctuary, 257 W. 88th Street 7-9pm
Bio:
Jonah Geffen is a Rabbi-in-training and educator in the field of Peace and Conflict Resolution. Currently serving as B'nai Jeshurun Rabbinic Fellow, he holds an MS in Conflict Analysis and Resolution from George Mason University, and will receive Rabbinic Ordination and an MA in Talmud and Rabbinics from the Jewish Theological Seminary in 2013. Jonah’s passion for peacemaking and belief in a compassionate, heart-centered Jewish practice has taken him from the Tanenbaum Center for Inter-religious Understanding, to the Kivunim: New Directions Israel program as Coexistence Educator, to the Encounter program as a Facilitator and Teacher in the Peacemaker’s Beit Midrash. Jonah was a Linden Fellow in the Pardes Peace and Conflict Track.
Registration:
Through B’nai Jeshurun
For more information contact:
Philadelphia
Local co-sponsor: Germantown Jewish Center
Location:
Germantown Jewish Center, 400 West Ellet St
Dates\Times:
Class 1: Wednesday Dec 7, 7-9:30pm. Daniel Roth and Ilanit Goldberg with special guest Rabbi Prof. Nancy Fuchs-Kreimer, Director of the department of Multi-faith Studies and Initiatives, Reconstructionist Rabbinic College.
Class 2: Tuesday January 17, 7-9:30pm
Class 3: Tuesday February 21, 7-9:30pm
Class 4: Tuesday March 20, 7-9:30pm
Class 5: Tuesday April 17, 7-9:30pm
Class 6: Tuesday May 15, 7-9:30pm
Bio:
Ilanit Goldberg is a fourth-year Rabbinical student at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College. Ilanit's professional experience includes serving as a community organizer and educator at the Jewish Council on Urban Affairs, and as a program director for AVODAH: The Jewish Service Corps. Ilanit served as a Kathryn Davis Fellow for Peace at the Middlebury College School of Hebrew, and spent the past year in Jerusalem where she participated in the Encounter Advanced Leadership Seminar. Ilanit was a Linden scholar at the Pardes Peace and Conflict Track.
Registration:
Contact Elana Shaw at program@germantownjewishcentre.org or call 215-844-1507 Ext. 19 to register.
For more information contact:
Toronto
Local co-sponsor: Hillel of Greater Toronto & Canadian Friends of Pardes
Location:
The Wolfond Centre for Jewish Campus Life, University of Toronto, 36 Harbor Street
Dates\Times
Class 1: Thursday Dec 8, 7-9:30pm. Daniel Roth, Aaron Katchen and Samahra Zatman, with special guest Prof. Nathan Funk, Lead Research Center for the Study of Religion and Peace, University of Waterloo.
Class 2: Thursday January 19, 7-9:30pm
Class 3: Thursday February 16, 7-9:30pm
Class 4: Thursday March 15, 7-9:30pm
Class 5: Thursday May 3, 7-9:30pm
Class 6: Thursday May 24, 7-9:30pm
Bios:
Rabbi Aaron Katchen studied at York University with a double degree in International Relations and Canadian Constitution Studies. Aaron is an alumni of the Pardes Kollel/Advanced Learning Seminar and received rabbinic ordination from Rabbi Daniel Landes. He has worked at Brown University Hillel, Winnipeg Hillel, was the rabbi at Oxford University and is currently serving as the Senior Jewish Educator for Hillel of Greater Toronto. Besides a passion for Jewish education, Aaron loves spending as much time outdoors and with his family, as he can.
Samahra Zatzman graduated from Canada’s York University with an Honours BA in Theatre as well as a Bachelor of Education. She is an alumnus of the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies’ Rodef Shalom/Peace and Conflict Track, and is currently studying to be a certified mediator in Toronto. She works as a Resource Teacher at a Hebrew Day School. Samahra is interested in using the arts, education, conflict resolution and Judaism to teach people of all ages and to help bridge communities. She can’t wait to be involved in organizing and teaching this six-part Toronto based Rodef Shalom City course and looks forward to conversations, provocations and reflections with diverse participants.
Registration:
Email Michelle Boigon at info@hilleltoronto.org or visit www.hilleltoronto.org.
For more information contact:
Atlanta
Local co-sponsor: Congregation Bet Haverim
Location:
2676 Clairmont Rd NE Atlanta
Dates\Times:
Class 1: Sunday Dec 11, 2:30-5pm. Daniel Roth, Drew Cohen and Kelly Cohen, with special guest Prof. Edward Queen, Director Leadership Education Center for Ethics; Co-director Religion, Conflict and Peace Initiative, Emory University.
Class 2: Sunday January 8, 2:30-5pm
Class 3: Sunday February 12, 2:30-5pm
Class 4: Sunday March 11, 2:30-5pm
Class 5: Sunday April 15, 2:30-5pm
Class 6: Sunday May 13, 2:30-5pm
Bios:
Drew Cohen teaches Judaic Studies and music at The Weber School. He is a graduate of the Pardes Educators Program, with an MA in Jewish Education from Hebrew College. Drew also served as a Senior Educator for Encounter. Before moving to Atlanta this past summer, Drew spent the past four years living in Jerusalem. Drew is a graduate of the Pardes Peace and Conflict Track.
Kelly Cohen teaches 3rd-5th grade Judaic Studies at The Davis Academy in Atlanta, GA. She is a recent graduate of the Pardes Educators Program and has a Masters Degree in Jewish Education from Hebrew College and a BA in Near Eastern and Judaic Studies from Brandeis University. Before moving to Atlanta this past summer, Kelly and her husband Drew spent the past four years living in Jerusalem. Kelly is also a certified Yoga and Jewish Spirituality teacher, and served as a Senior Educator for Encounter. Kelly is an alumnus of Masa, as well as the Pardes Peace and Conflict Track.
Registration\More info:
Contact
Los Angeles
Local Co-Sponsor: Ikar
Location:
Westside JCC, 5870 West Olympic Boulevard Los Angeles, CA 90036, Los Angeles, CA
Dates\Times:
Class 1: Wednesday 21st December 2011, 7:30-9:30pm. Daniel Roth and Marc Adam Kraus with special guest Rabbi Prof. Reuven Firestone, Founder and Co-Director of the Center for Muslim-Jewish Engagement, University of Southern California.
Class 2: Tuesday January 24, 7:30-9:30pm
Class 3: Tuesday February 21, 7:30-9:30pm
Class 4: Tuesday March 20, 7:30-9:30pm
Class 5: Tuesday April 24, 7:30-9:30pm
Class 6: Tuesday May 22, 7:30-9:30pm
Bio:
Marc Adam Kraus MA (Oxon) studied Hebrew Literature at Oxford University and is an alumnus of the Pardes Kollel/Advanced Scholars’ Program and the Pardes Peace & Conflict Track. Originally from London, England, Marc is currently training for the rabbinate at the AJU’s Ziegler School. His interests include mediation, meditation and teaching Talmud.
Registration:
For more information contact
The Rodef Shalom - On-Line Course
Coming Soon.
The on-line course consists of videos of Rabbi Daniel Roth and Rabbi Prof. Marc Gopin, director of the Center for World Religions, Diplomacy and Conflict Resolution at George Mason University discussing the six course units. In addition to the videos, each course unit will include on-line source sheets and an on-line discussion board seeking to bring together all students engaged in the particular unit.
The Rodef Shalom - Retreat
The course will conclude with the Rodef Shalom retreat at Pearlstone Conference and Retreat Center, MD, Friday June 1 to Sunday June 3, 2012.
The retreat will be co-taught by Rabbi Daniel Roth and Rabbi Prof. Marc Gopin. This retreat seeks to deepen the study and practice of transforming ourselves into being rodfei shalom. The retreat is for the on-location and on-line Rodef Shalom students, as well as Pardes Peace and Conflict Track alumni and, if room allows, all those interested in attending.
Cost of retreat: $200.
Deadline: May 1, 2012 (after this, registrations will be processed only if space allows)
In order to reserve your place, we require a $50 non-refundable deposit, which will be applied toward the full cost. The balance is due by May 1, 2012.
For questions about registration, contact
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