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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

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

13 Jun 2023: Dear Woolf Friends,. Few men have the privilege and good fortune to seetheir life’s vision take shape in front of them. Ed. Kessler, whose 60th birthday we were celebratingthis week, is that rare man. But fortune played only a small part. Ed

13 Jun 2023: Dear Woolf Friends,. When the news of the British conquest of MountEverest came through on the same day as QueenElizabeth’s coronation, it seemed too good to betrue. But the story of how that piece of news wasmanaged and gathered is less well known

12 Jun 2023: Dear Woolf Friends,. I have been an intern at the Woolf Institute now fornearly a month, having returned following last year’ssummer school programme. I am an undergraduateat Brigham Young University in Salt Lake Citystudying Philosophy and

13 Jun 2023: Dear Woolf Friends,. Ramadan has always embodied for me a delightfullydelicate paradox: it is at once a month ofrenunciation and fulfilment, of stillness and activity,of turning inwards in contemplation and reachingoutwards in charity. Ramadan

13 Jun 2023: Dear Woolf Friends,. This year marks the 25th anniversary of the Good. Friday Agreement. Signed on the 10th April 1998during Holy Week it ended, for the most part, theviolence of The Troubles in Northern Ireland. If youlook back 30 years ago, there

16 Aug 2023: Dear Woolf Friends,. As I write this the night sky is blazing with fireworks fromthe May Ball at a neighbouring college. Cambridgecelebrates the end of the academic year in great style. Atthe Woolf we too have been celebrating, not withfireworks,

16 Aug 2023: Dear Woolf Friends,. My journey to the Woolf Institute began in theory in 2017,when I was taking a course on Jewish-Christian relationsat the faculty of Religious Studies (Bursa UludağUniversity, Turkey) and Ed Kessler's book AnIntroduction to

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

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

12 Jun 2023: Dear Woolf Friends,. On April 11 this year, US President Joe Bidentravelled to Belfast, Northern Ireland to mark the1998 signing of the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement.It was a momentous landmark in the history of thatconflict-ridden country. Anyone

13 Jun 2023: Dear Woolf Friends,. As part of the Faith in Mental Health project, Irecently had the opportunity to visit RamptonHospital, a high secure hospital in Retford. We wereinvited by Imam Farooq Mulla, a chaplain at thehospital and a friend of the Woolf.

12 Jun 2023: Dear Woolf Friends,. On Wednesday 3rdMay I was delighted to chair apanel at the Woolf Institute exploring the role ofwomen in positions of religious authority as part of a. celebration of the 60th birthday of the Institute’sfounder, Ed Kessler.

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. Daughter Babylon, doomed to destruction, happy is the one who repays you. according to what you have done to us.

12 Jun 2023: Dear Woolf Friends,. When I first came into contact with the Woolf Institute, the teamwere squatting in a dusty nest of rooms at Wesley House, one ofseveral locations they occupied in the nomad years of theInstitute’s infancy. I had a flashback to

11 Apr 2024: FAITH INMENTALHEALTHJamilla Hekmoun, Seherish Abrar. 2024. 02 Healthcare. Executive Summary. This report outlines findings from atwo-year research project conductedby the Woolf Institute. It aimed tohelp bridge the gap betweenmainstream mental

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. Secular Societies, Religious Followers; Opportunities? Challenges? From Majority to Minority – Being Muslim in

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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. Coptic Identities as Indigenous: The Politics of Recognition & Improving. Interfaith Relations in Egypt. Ironically,

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