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7 Nov 2022: Dear Woolf Friends, From research to social good, from Cambridge to the wider world, the WoolfInstitute is increasing the impact of its work this year, especially within politicaland policymaking circles. With this goal in mind, we have further

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

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10 Nov 2022: Dear Woolf Friends,. Trust is the basis of all successful societies: law, economic activity, democracyas a whole, all are based on trusting strangers. Building trust between the religious communities of Britain is essential for thecreation of a

7 Nov 2022: Every year millions of Muslims travel to Makkah during the last month of the Islamic calendar, Dhul Hajj,to perform a pilgrimage known as Hajj. The pilgrimage lasts around five days, from the 8th to the 13th ofDhul Hajj (this year coinciding with 7th

8 Nov 2022: Dear Woolf Friends, Last month, I had the opportunity to return to Belfastfor the first time in nearly 10 years. Having done myMA there, it is a city I once knew well; our WoolfInstitute Forgiveness and Future-building projectoffered an opportunity

9 Nov 2022: Dear Woolf Friends, In this special week of celebration of Easter,Passover and Ramadan it seems a good momentto remind ourselves of the foundation of theInstitute and to look forward to our 25th. anniversary next year. Back in 1998 when DrEdward

7 Nov 2022: Dear Woolf Friends, Our light, airy and unusual building here at the Woolf has always lent itself to allsorts of events. In the five years since we moved in we have had concerts,comedy events, poetry recitals, dinners and drumming workshops all over

8 Nov 2022: Dear Woolf Friends, By the time you read this, we will have enjoyed theJubilee weekend and I hope you all have had awonderful time with family, neighbours andfriends. Seeing how during her long rule, her Majesty’sstoic determination and composure

9 Nov 2022: Dear Woolf Friends, Those who have spent nearly a full month fasting dailyfrom sunrise to sunset welcome the first day of Eid al-Fitr with open arms. Toward the end of Ramadan, youare physically exhausted but spiritually satiated. I cancertainly

9 Nov 2022: Dear Woolf Friends, Spring, with its longer daylight hours, new buds on thetrees, and – with a little bit of luck – increasingly sunnyweather, is an annual reminder of new beginnings.Having weathered the hardest season of the year, wecan look to

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

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,. 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

9 Nov 2022: Dear Woolf Friends, We are in the swing of Easter term in Cambridge,which runs from the second half of April to the middleof June. The term is always strangely dual in nature.On the one hand, it is the period of exams, with anxietypalpable in the

7 Nov 2022: Dear Woolf Friends,. September always feels like a new start. The newacademic year for schools and universities bringsexcitement, potential, and a little nervousness; with afour-year-old starting school for the first time, I knowthat this is true

4 Feb 2019: Representations of Jewish‐Christian Relations in Literature http://www.woolf.cam.ac.uk/study/online‐courses/representations‐of‐ jewish‐christian‐relations‐in‐literature . This  document  is  available  to  download  on 

7 Nov 2022: Dear Woolf Friends,. As an academic, I always feel incredibly elated whena student tells me my teaching has changed the waythey think about a problem or the profound effect ourdiscussions have had on their lives. We always liketo think the Woolf

6 Mar 2023: Dear Woolf Friends,. Too often interfaith dialogue focuses on our sharedground and skirts away from the contentiousconversations about what divides us. Althoughrecognising our common beliefs and sharedstandards is always a good thing, if we don’t

6 Mar 2023: Dear Woolf Friends,. Most teenagers who found themselves growing up inthe drab suburbs of South East London in the mid-1960s felt the need for escape. Skiffle music andAmerican Rock and Roll were popular. But not withme. I was captivated by the