AMY BERNSTEIN AND AMY EILBERG NEXT SPEAKERS IN INTERRELIGIOUS FORUM SERIES AT THE COLLEGE OF ST. SCHOLASTICA

Rabbis Amy Bernstein and Amy Eilberg will give a talk entitled "Being Jewish: Contemporary Topics and Tensions” at 7 p.m. Tuesday, March 3, in Somers Lounge on The College St. Scholastic campus. The event is free and open to the public.

This is a rescheduling of an earlier date which was canceled due to severe weather.

Rabbis Amy Bernstein and Amy Eilberg will give a talk entitled "Being Jewish: Contemporary Topics and Tensions” at 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 26, in Somers Lounge on The College St. Scholastic campus. The event is free and open to the public.

Bernstein is the rabbi of Temple Israel in Duluth. She has served as president of the Arrowhead Interfaith Council, taught several courses at St. Scholastica and McCabe Renewal Center, and lectured widely in the Northland. She serves on St. Scholastica's Board of Trustees. She also sings and records with the Three Altos.

She holds a master’s degree in Hebrew Letters from and was ordained by the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College near Philadelphia. She was awarded the distinguished Becker Prize for best original Hebrew composition. She holds a bachelor’s degree with a double major in English literature and cultural anthropology from Northwestern University.

Eilberg serves as a consultant to the Jay Phillips Center for interfaith dialogue projects in the Twin Cities. She teaches the art of compassionate listening in venues throughout the country. She is engaged in efforts of peace and reconciliation in connection with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, as well as with issues of conflict within the Jewish community.

She was the first woman ordained as a Conservative rabbi by the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. She is nationally known as a leader of the Jewish healing movement.

A summa cum laude graduate of Brandeis University, Eilberg earned a master’s degree in Talmud at the Jewish Theological Seminary and a Master of Social Work degree from Smith College.

Their talk is part of the College’s two-year Oreck-Alpern Interreligious Forum series exploring six religious traditions: Catholicism, Judaism, Anishinaabe culture and spirituality, Buddhism, Islam, and Protestant Christianity.

The format has each of the six religious traditions be the focus of three sessions led by scholars from across the country. The first session in each explores the history and identity of the religious tradition; the second considers that faith’s central beliefs and practices; and the third discusses current issues, tensions and questions faced by that religious community.

For more information about the series, contact Oreck-Alpern Interreligious Forum director Elyse Carter Vosen at (218) 723-6446 or evosen@css.edu.

The College of St. Scholastic is regularly recognized as one of the finest colleges in the Midwest. The 2009 “America's Best Colleges” survey by U.S. News & World Report magazine ranks St. Scholastic in the top tier of Midwestern universities. The Washington Post has rated St. Scholastic as one of the nation’s 100 “hidden gems” among U.S. colleges and universities.