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6 Mar 2023: This week Professor Robert Tombs reflects on his own experiences of Lent when he wasyounger. Dear Woolf Friends,. Lent, which begins on Shrove Tuesday, 21 February,is a time for the recollection of important matters oflife and death in preparation

10 Nov 2022: Dear Woolf Friends,. Ramadan is coming! Ramadan is a time of the year most which Muslims eagerly look forward to. Buthow can one look forward to a month of struggle and extreme hunger? Why doMuslims indeed anticipate Ramadan with such excitement? It

13 Jun 2023: Dear Woolf Friends,. After a long and cold winter Purim is the first holidayto start off the spring season. This is the holidaywhere Jews remember the story of Esther, her uncleMordechai, King Achashverosh and the evil Haman. There are four

10 Nov 2022: Dear Woolf Friends,. Does interfaith work? This is a question with which the Woolf Institute, andprobably too few others, wrestle. Our Measures of Success project, completedlast year, explored the tricky topic of effectiveness and produced a

6 Mar 2023: Dear Woolf Friends,. The Woolf Research Days are a valuableopportunity to present the work of some of our bestyoung researchers to audiences in brief TED-styletalks. These occasions also give our students andacademics an opportunity to practise the

6 Mar 2023: Dear Woolf Friends,. At the start of each new year, I find myself thinkingabout the past 12 months and wondering what I’ll bereflecting on next January when I look back at the. year just gone by. But with the Woolf Institute’s 25th. Anniversary

10 Nov 2022: Dear Woolf Friends,. A few years ago, the Woolf Institute conducted a research project on trustbetween religious communities. Through our work, we recognised that buildingtrust between people requires positive, but also meaningful,

6 Mar 2023: Dear Woolf Friends,. “Do you know anyone who would be interested inworking as my PA?”, came the question from EdKessler. I did, and the rest, as they say, is history. I am thinking back on my journey at the WoolfInstitute. I first started

10 Nov 2022: Dear Woolf Friends, One of the things that distinguishes the Woolf Institute from other researchinstitutes is our strive to translate all our research into public education.Academic work sometimes has the reputation of being conducted in an

13 Jun 2023: Dear Woolf Friends,. If you visit East Germany, where I was born andraised, any time in late March and April, you will begreeted by bushes full of Easter eggs and nests ofeggs on the ground in many gardens and publicparks. Germany may be most famous

26 Jan 2024: Madingley Road I Cambridge I CB3 0UB. Tel 44 (0)1223 761984 Email enquiries@woolf.cam.ac.uk. Charity No 1069589 Company No 3540878. Interfaith encounters on campus and in academia. The public debate about Israel and Palestine on university campuses

11 May 2021: Why Google’s SafeSearch function is not fit for purpose. UNSAFE SEARCH:. The text and illustrations may only be reproduced with prior permission of CST and the Antisemitism Policy Trust. Data analysis provided by the Woolf Institute, University of

13 Jun 2023: Dear Woolf Friends,. My official affiliation with the Woolf began 12 monthsago when Dr Esther-Miriam Wagner encouraged meto apply to become an Honorary PhD scholar. I’dattended many events hosted by the Woolf andalways enjoyed them. One, however,

13 Jun 2023: Dear Woolf Friends,. Each year, the Institute takes a small anddistinguished delegation of supporters and patronsfrom across the three Abrahamic faiths to cities withparticularly interesting religious and interfaithhistories. In past years, we have

12 Jun 2023: Dear Woolf Friends,. Pentecostalism is the world's fastest growingChristian denomination. The Pentecostal movementclaims hundreds of millions of followers and enjoyspopularity globally, but especially in the majorityworld. Yet many of the world's

25 Sep 2017: AN OPEN LETTER: A Call to Peace, Dialogue and Understanding between Muslims and Jews. Bismillah Ar Rahman Ar Rahim. In the name of God the Beneficent, the Merciful. Surely those who believe, and those who are Jews, and the Christians, and the Sabians

30 Aug 2021: Bad Influence. INSTAGRAM:. The text and illustrations may only be reproduced with prior permission of CST and the Antisemitism Policy Trust. Data analysis provided by the Woolf Institute.Published by Community Security Trust and the Antisemitism

9 Nov 2022: Dear Woolf Friends, This year we have the rare occasion that majorfestivals of the three Abrahamic faiths align:Easter, Passover and Ramadan. Such aconcurrence last happened in 1991 and is broughtabout by the different calendar systems

9 Dec 2021: Cover image: Shurtterstock: XanderSt. Twitter icon. CONTENTSIntroduction. 4. Background. 5. Methods.

10 Feb 2022: Transmission and Trust: The Impact of Covid-19 on British Jewish and British Muslim CommunitiesExecutive Summary. 2. About the Woolf InstituteThe Woolf Institute was founded by Dr Edward Kessler MBE and Revd Professor Martin Forward in 1998. Their