September 10, 2014 – 6:00 PM
Annual Interfaith Remembrance Commemoration of 9/11/01
Rev. James Jackson, Rabbi Carl Choper, Qassim Rashid and Mayor Eric Pappenfuse
Harrisburg 9/11 Commemoration
Goodwin Memorial Baptist Church
Sunday September 14, 2014 – 2:00 PM
9-11 Rememberance — Was the U.S. Founded as a Christian Nation?
Annual Interfaith Remembrance Commemoration of 9/11/01
Location: St. Stephen’s Episcopal Cathedral
221 North Front Street, Harrisburg, PA
Wednesday, July 9, 2013 – Baha’i Interfaith Celebration
As the objective of the Religion and Society Center
is to learn and understand different religions…
You are invited to the Baha’i center
to experience a Baha’i:
– Devotional
– Observance of a Holy Day
– Learn its Teachings and Principles
– Participate in a dialogue
– Share in fellowship
Thursday, May 8, 15, 22, 29, 2014 – 11:30 AM to 1:30 PM
JEWISH – CHRISTIAN DIALOGUE LUNCHEON SERIES
May 8 – Jonah 1: “Can You Run From God?”
May 15 – Jonah 2: “Can You Hear Me Now?”
May 22 – Jonah 3: “Can a Leopard Change its Spots?”
May 29 – Jonah 4: “Mad About Mercy”
Location
Temple Ohev Sholom
2345 N. Front Street, Harrisburg, PA 17110
On Tuesday evening, April 8, 2014, The Religion and Society Center, The Interdenominational Ministers Conference (IMC) and the Rabbinic Advisory Council sponsored a community-wide Freedom Seder to celebrate Passover, the Festival of Freedom. The evening was filled with the symbolic Seder foods and rituals, including singing songs of freedom,sharing varied teachings and table discussions about what freedom means for us as Americans. The history of the Freedom Seder goes back to 1969,when America’s Civil Rights Movement inspired Blacks and Jews to ponder the meaning of freedom from slavery from the Bible through our own time.The first such Seder was held on April 4,1969,which was the third night of Passover and the first anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King. Since then, Freedom Seders have been held in many cities to bring freedom loving people together in prayerful fellowship. The Freedom Seder led by Rabbi Carl Choper, President of the Religion and Society Center, Rabbi Eric Cytryn of Beth El Temple and Bishop A.E. Sullivan, President of the IMC. Freedom songs led by the IMC Choir.
Tuesday January 28, 2014 – 6:00 PM
The Amazing Faiths Dinner
Sponsored by the Religion and Society Center
and Sycamore House
Location: St. Stephen’s Episcopal Cathedral
221 North Front Street, Harrisburg, PA
Wednesday, November 27, 2013 – 7:30 PM
Interfaith Service Of Thanksgiving 2013
The InterReligious Forum of Greater Harrisburg
presents the 24th Annual
Interfaith Service Of Thanksgiving 2013
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
4788 Union Deposit Road
Harrisburg, PA 17111
Speaker: Teri Berman; Beth El Temple
2nd Generation Holocaust Survivor
Sunday September 15, 2013 – 2:00 PM
Why Do We Hate in the Name of Religion
Annual Interfaith Remembrance Commemoration of 9/11/01
Location: St. Stephen’s Episcopal Cathedral
221 North Front Street, Harrisburg, PA
September 11, 2013
Why Do We Hate in the Name of Religion
As hosted on WITF Radio Smart Talk
April 3, 2013 – 6:30 – 8:30 PM Torch of Enlightenment Dinner
Dixon Center
2986 North Second Street
Harrisburg, PA
The Religion and Society Center and the World Affairs Council of Harrisburg are collaborating to sponsor the first Torch of Global Enlightenment Awards. In addition to the 4 torch awards being presented, there will also be a “passing of the torch.” The World Affairs Council of Harrisburg will announced their winners at the event. Recipients of the Torch of Global Enlightenment Awards will model the Council’s mission of helping to inform and engage Americans in international affairs.
Wednesday February 20, 27, March 13, 2013 – 11:30 AM to 1:30 PM
JEWISH – CHRISTIAN DIALOGUE LUNCHEON SERIES
Temple Ohev Sholom
Friday April 26, 2013 – 12:00 Noon – Bonus:
How to Avoid Anti-Jewish Preaching and Teaching
Tuesday February 5, 2013 – 5:45 to 9:00 PM Amazing Faiths Dinner and Dialogue
January 26, 2013 – 7:00 PM
A Gig’s for Good Community Concert Featuring The New Klezmer Quintet
The New Klezmer Quintet, combining klezmer, jazz, rock, and Israeli in a first-of-its-kind unique blend, has wowed concert audiences for years. Performing throughout the USA and featured on NPR, this amazing group of musicians has created a new sound with widespread appeal. In addition to their regular following, their special blend of music has attracted a large number of new fans from varied backgrounds who had never heard klezmer before.
Saturday Evening, November 17, 2012
Giving Thanks After the Storm Gigs for Good Benefit Concert
Featuring Rock Band Thunder and Lightening.
Thursday evening, January 26, 2012
The Amazing Faiths Dinner Dialogue in Harrisburg was held at St. Stephen’s Episcopal Cathedral. The Dinner Dialogue of the Amazing Faiths Dinner was created in 2006 by Dr. Jill Carroll who was at that time the Executive Director of the Boniuk Center for Religious Tolerance at Rice University in Houston. Mayor Bill White convened a team of community interfaith leaders which included Dr. Carroll in Houston in the fall of 2006 to capture the spirit of a book of photography and religious text by Roy Spence, entitled: “Amazing Faiths of Texas.”
Wednesday evening, January 4, 2012
Held at the Hadee Mosque located at 245 Division Street, Harrisburg, PA
The Religion and Society Center, and the Interfaith Alliance of Pennsylvania, is initiating an interfaith dialogue with congregations of different faiths called “Cooperating Congregations”.
At our first gathering began a series of multi-faceted, multi-faith dialogues. Members of the Hadee Mosque introduced a study of the Quran which described the core tenets of Islam. Rabbi Carl Choper then discussed the framework of Cooperating Congregations and described our mission and objectives for expanding understanding of the different faith traditions, the scriptures that form those traditions, and the celebrations that commemorate those traditions.
Wednesday 9 & 16, 2011
SHARING ISAIAH: COMMON PROPHECIES, CONTRASTING MESSAGES
A Jewish-Christian Study-Dialogue in Four Sessions
Over the Book of Isaiah
Messiah: God or Man? Isaiah 11: 1-10
PRESENTERS: Rev. Deborah Volker & Rabbi Eric Cytryn
Good News, Isaiah 61: 1-11
PRESENTERS: Dr. Andrea Lieber & Father James Podlesny, O.S.B.
Sunday, September 22, 2011
Interfaith dialog initiated in the September 11, 2011 panel discussion at St. Stephen’s Episcopal Cathedral. The Religion and Society Center plans to create a sustained multi-faith dialogue program in Central Pennsylvania, moving forward from September 11, through September 22 and beyond.
Sunday, September 11, 2011
Stephen’s Episcopal Cathedral
How Can We Build Our Future Together?
Presented by the Interfaith Alliance of Pennsylvania and St. Stephens episcopal Cathedral
Ceremony with Presentation by Imam Yahya Hendi, Islamic Chaplain of Georgetown University and Founder of Clergy Beyond Borders
Interfaith Panel Discussion:
Dealing with Extremists Within Your Own Faith Building Our Future together
July 31, 2011
Stephen’s Episcopal Cathedral
Interfaith Garden Gathering
February 8, 15, 22, March 1, 2011 A Jewish-Christian Study-Dialogue in Four Sessions Over the Book of Isaiah
February 2, 2011
Messiah College
Discussion and film at Messiah College on forgiveness and oppression.
September 12, 2010
Stephen’s Episcopal Cathedral
An Interfaith Remembrance of September 11, 2001
January 2010
Mon. 11, The Interfaith Alliance PA Board Meeting
May 26, 2009
Religion & the Environment
The Jewish Community Center Of Greater Harrisburg
3301 North Front Street, Harrisburg (intersection of Front and Vaughn)
February 2008
Sun. 17, Interfaith Coalition on the Environment Meeting, Developing a presentation. 3pm.
Mon. 18, Walking Through Exodus. 11:30-1:30 with lunch.
Mon. 25, Jewish-Christian Dialogue Planning Group. 10am at Beth El Temple.
Wed. 27, Religion and Society Center Board Meeting. 7pm.
March 2008
Mon. 3, Walking Through Exodus. 11:30-1:30 with lunch.
Mon. 10, Walking Through Exodus. 11:30-1:30 with lunch.
April 2008
Wed. 2, Religion and Society Center Board Meeting. 7pm.
Mon. 14, Rama Navami Interfaith Banquet at Lebanon Valley College. 6pm.
Dec. 2007
Wed. 9, Religion and Society Center Board Meeting. 7pm.
Wed. 12, Interfaith Alliance Policy Meeting, 5:30pm.
Nov. 2007
Mon. 19, Interfaith Coalition on the Environment meeting. Contact us to get involved. 7pm.
Wed. 21, Interfaith Thanksgiving service. Contact us for more information.
Tues. 27, Interfaith Alliance program Prayer in the Legislature. 7pm.
Thurs. 29, Jewish-Christian Dialogue Committee discuss the Vatican document “The Jewish People and Their Sacred Scriptures in the Christian Bible”.
Oct. 2007
Sat. Oct. 6 (10am-1pm) or Sun. Oct. 7 (1-4pm), Energy Costs & The Environment:
The Practical & Moral Bottom Line For Your Congregation. St. Stephens Episcopal School. Interfaith Coalition on the Environment.
Sep. 2007
Tue. 4
A session with Bob Edgar, former General Secretary of the National Council of Churches, and before that, six-term former US Congressman from Pennsylvania.
Six-term former US Congressman, and former General Secretary of the National Council of Churches Bob Edgar will be speaking to a gathering of The Interfaith Alliance of Pennsylvania.
Place: Jewish Community Center of Greater Harrisburg, 3301 N. Front Street (at the intersection with Vaughn St.), Harrisburg PA.
Topic: Given what he sees going on in the political world and in the religious world, what are the most important tasks for The Interfaith Alliance to focus on at this point in time, nationally and in Pennsylvania.
Tue. 11
An Evening of Remembrance and Hope, a gathering at The Islamic Society of Greater Harrisburg.
Interfaith Gathering at area mosque, September 11, 2007
The Interfaith Alliance of Pennsylvania will hold an evening of remembrance and hope at the Islamic Society of Greater Harrisburg (ISGH) on September 11. The intent is for people of faith and goodwill to mourn the acts of 9/11 and to seek ways of moving forward together.
The gathering will begin with an optional tour of the mosque at 7:00 p.m., permitting participants to observe evening prayers.
The ceremony will begin at 7:45 p.m., with brief statements by Rabbi Carl Choper (TIA-PA Chair) and Samia Malik, a member of ISGH. It will consist of a candlelight procession around the mosque, and a time for participants to come forward and ask for peace in the original language of their faith tradition.
Although candles will be available at the ceremony, participants are requested to bring their own, along with a paper cup to catch any wax dripping. All are asked to dress modestly (no shorts), and women are asked to cover hair with scarf or hat.
The mosque is located at 407 N. Front St., Steelton, PA 17113
717-939-3107
Tue. 25
Kanti Jasani speaks on Jainism, an Eastern religious tradition little known in the Harrisburg community. Harrisburg JCC. Pennsylvania Interfaith Alliance, Religion and Society Center Tradition and Pluralism Project.
Aug. 2007
Mon. 27, Jewish-Christian Dialogue Committee, discussing Divino Afflante Spiritu, “The Jewish People and Their Sacred Scriptures in the Christian Bible” and “Bethel Confession”. 10am
Jul. 2007
Thu. 5, Interfaith Environment Coalition meeting, 7pm Thu. 24, Mohammed Safiullah on Ahmediyya Islam and Farzana Safiullah on his work with the National Resource Center on Domestic Violence.
Jun. 2007
Wed. 6, Interfaith Environmental Coalition Meeting, Sustainable Lifestyle Initiative
May 2007
Wed. 2, Energy Cost-Reduction Workshop Planning Meeting, Sustainable Lifestyle Initiative
Mon. 7, Interfaith Environmental Coalition Meeting, Sustainable Lifestyle Initiative
Sat. 19, Board Meeting
Tue. 29, Two Presentations: First, Behzad Zandieh, a leader of the local Bahai community, introduces the Bahai faith. Then, Stephen Glassman, the Chair of the Pennsylvania Human Relations Committee, explains how housing and employment discrimination, in Pennsylvania, is legal on the basis of gender identity and sexual orientation. Following is a discussion on how the interplay of religion and politics contributes to this situation. Mr. Glassman explains the law-based work of the Human Relations Commission. Harrisburg JCC. Pennsylvania Interfaith Alliance, the Religion and Society Center Tradition and Pluralism Project.
Wed. 30, Jewish-Christian Dialogue Planning Committee Meeting
Apr. 2007
Wed. 18, Board Meeting
Thu. 26, Jewish-Christian Dialogue Planning Committee Meeting
Tue. 24, Mad Hatters and Current Matters – discussing issues of environmental ethics and public policy, including the the matter of mercury emissions, still under consideration by the legislature, and the ethical implications of global warming in light of a newly-released international report. Dr. Judith Samkoff, an epidemiologist, and Dr. Kathrine Baker, an environmental biologist at Penn State Harrisburg, will be on hand to lead the discussion. Pennsylvania Interfaith Alliance, the Religion and Society Center Tradition and Pluralism Project.
Mar. 2007
Wed. 7, Board Meeting
Thu. 22, Jewish-Christian Dialogue Planning Committee Meeting
Tue. 27, Rev. Churchill Pinder, Dean of St. Stephen’s Cathedral in Harrisburg, speaks about the current deliberations and negotiations surrounding Gay and Lesbian issues within the Anglican Communion, which involves the Episcopal Church. Pennsylvania Interfaith Alliance, the Religion and Society Center Tradition and Pluralism Project.
Feb. 2007
Sat. 3, Jewish Spiritual Life Center Tu b’Shevat Gathering
Wed. 7, Board Meeting
Thu. 22, Christian Jewish Dialogue Committee
Tue. 27, The Mennonite tradition and the extensive Mennonite involvement in providing mental health care with dignity. Harrisburg JCC. Pennsylvania Interfaith Alliance, the Religion and Society Center Tradition and Pluralism Project.
Jan. 2007
Tue. 23, An introduction to Roman Catholicism by father Shuda, spitiual leader of Our Lady of the Blessed Sacrament in Harrisburg, and an introduction to organized Atheism with Mr. Carl Silverman, representing the ideas of Pennsylvania Nonbelievers. Harrisburg JCC. Pennsylvania Interfaith Alliance, the Religion and Society Center Tradition and Pluralism Project.
Wed. 24, Jewish-Christian Dialogue Planning Committee Meeting