{"id":577878,"date":"2010-05-24T17:22:17","date_gmt":"2010-05-24T21:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogs.rj.org,2010:\/rac\/\/2.2792"},"modified":"2010-05-24T18:20:23","modified_gmt":"2010-05-24T22:20:23","slug":"on-interreligious-dialogue-love-the-questions-themselves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/577878","title":{"rendered":"On Interreligious Dialogue, &#8220;Love the Questions Themselves&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        The <a href=\"http:\/\/reformjudaismmag.org\/\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2005\/Atom\">Summer 2010 edition<\/a> of <i xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2005\/Atom\">Reform Judaism <\/i>Magazine includes a feature story titled &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/reformjudaismmag.org\/Articles\/index.cfm?id=1588\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2005\/Atom\">The Art of Muslim-Jewish Dialogue<\/a>.&#8221; I recommend this excellent piece to anyone interested in learning more about the experiences of URJ congregations from across North America that have engaged in meaningful, successful dialogue relationships with local mosques and Muslim communities. Toward this aim, many congregations have utilized the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/urj.org\/socialaction\/issues\/muslimdialogue\/\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2005\/Atom\">Children of Abraham: Jews and Muslims in Conversation<\/a>&#8221; curriculum, developed by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urj.org\/\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2005\/Atom\">URJ <\/a>and our partners at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.isna.net\/home.aspx\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2005\/Atom\">Islamic Society of North America<\/a> (ISNA) as part of a <a href=\"http:\/\/urj.org\/biennial\/initiatives\/\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2005\/Atom\">2007 Biennial initiative<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><br xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2005\/Atom\"><\/br><br xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2005\/Atom\"><\/br>The feature includes examples of the ideas, conversations, and most significantly, the questions that have emerged through the various dialogue groups. As poet Rainer Maria Rilke wrote, we must &#8220;<strong xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2005\/Atom\">try to love the questions themselves<\/strong>, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them.&#8221;<br xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2005\/Atom\"><\/br><br xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2005\/Atom\"><\/br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Summer 2010 edition of Reform Judaism Magazine includes a feature story titled &#8220;The Art of Muslim-Jewish Dialogue.&#8221; I recommend this excellent piece to anyone interested in learning more about the experiences of URJ congregations from across North America that have engaged in meaningful, successful dialogue relationships with local mosques and Muslim communities. Toward this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-577878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=577878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577878\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}