CURRICULUM
VITAE
Yehezkel Landau
Hartford
Seminary
77 Sherman Street
Hartford, CT 06105
phone: (860) 509-9538
fax: (860) 509-9509
ylandau@hartsem.edu
Education:
| 1976 |
Harvard
Divinity School, Cambridge, MA: Master of Theological Studies,
specializing in psychology-and-theology and in Jewish-Christian
relations; recipient of 1990 Katzenstein Award presented to
distinguished alumnus.
|
| 1971 |
Harvard
University,
Cambridge, MA: A.B. Magna Cum Laude in Social Relations, program
combining psychology, religion, and education
|
1978-
1980 |
Jerusalem
Academy of Jewish Studies,
(Yeshivat Dvar Yerushalayim): Advanced Judaic Studies aided
by a Wolfson Scholarship
|
Vocational
Experience:
2002-
Present |
Faculty
Associate in Interfaith Relations, Hartford
Seminary,
Hartford, CT: Teaching
courses in Jewish spirituality, Hebrew Bible, and religion and
peacemaking; adding a Jewish voice to internal discussions at the
Seminary; serving as liaison with the local Jewish community and
outreach educator to local synagogues, churches, and mosques;
coordinating “Building Abrahamic Partnerships” training
program for Jewish, Christian, and Muslim clergy, religious
educators, & seminarians
Also a candidate for Doctor of Ministry degree |
1991-
2003 |
Co-Founder
and International Relations Director,
Open House Center for Jewish-Arab Coexistence, Ramle,
Israel: Responsibilities included program planning; raising funds;
developing an international support network; speaking before
groups in Israel and abroad; writing material for English
publications and web site. |
1982-
1991 |
Executive
Director, Oz
veShalom-Netivot Shalom, the religious Zionist
peace movement in Israel: directing the staff; raising funds for
the movement’s activities; writing and editing publications in
English; representing the movement before groups of Israelis,
Palestinians and visitors from abroad; maintaining contacts with
media representatives. |
1981-
Present |
Lecturer
on Judaism and Interfaith Relations
at several Christian institutions in Israel including the Tantur
Ecumenical Institute, St. George’s College,
the Sisters of Sion international study program at Ecce
Homo, the Swedish Theological Institute, and Nes Ammim
village in the Galilee. Also
ad hoc lecturer for groups visiting Israel from around the world,
on topics relating Jewish tradition and spirituality to practical
issues of peace, justice, and reconciliation. |
|
1980-
1982 |
Program
Coordinator,
Israel Interfaith Association, Jerusalem:
Organized educational activities to foster understanding
among Jews, Christians, Muslims and Druse; edited newsletter,
“Interfaith Israel”. |
1975-
1978 |
Seminar
Leader and Lecturer
in courses on psychology and religion at Tufts University
and the Harvard Graduate School of Education,
Massachusetts, and Bard College, New York; simultaneously
held administrative positions with responsibility for program
planning and implementation, grant proposal writing and counseling
students. |
Publications:
VOICES
FROM JERUSALEM: JEWS AND CHRISTIANS REFLECT ON THE HOLY LAND,
Paulist Press, New York, 1992. Co-editor and contributor of chapter, “Hebron
and Jerusalem: Centers of Inclusive Holiness”.
RELIGIOUS
ZIONISM: CHALLENGES AND CHOICES; VIOLENCE AND THE VALUE
OF LIFE IN JEWISH TRADITION; and the ENGLISH BULLETIN of OZ
veSHALOM Publications, Jerusalem. Editor and contributor, 1981-1991.
“The
Return to Covenantal Morality, “SHEFA QUARTERLY, Jerusalem, Vol.
II, No. 3 (1980).
“Martyrdom
in Paul’s Religious Ethics: An Exegetical Commentary on Romans 5:7,”
IMMANUEL, Ecumenical Theological Fraternity, Jerusalem, No. 15
(1982-1983).
“Shuttling
Between Heaven and Earth: Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz,” ARIEL,
Jerusalem, No. 54 (1983).
“Pilgrimage
of the Soul,” ARIEL, Jerusalem, No. 58 (1984)
“The
President and the Prophets,” THE JERUSALEM POST, November 4, 1983,
and reprinted in SOJOURNERS, CHRISTIANITY & CRISIS, IFOR REPORT, and
HERVORMD NEDERLAND (in Dutch).
“Samson
Syndrome,” article on Israel and nuclear weapons, THE JERUSALEM
POST, August 11, 1985.
“Messianism
and Politics,” OZ
veSHALOM ENGLISH BULLETIN, Jerusalem, No. 7-8 (Fall 1986) and German
language INFORMATIONSBLATT, No. 11 (Spring 1987), reprinted (in
Norwegian) in KRISTUS--Hvem er Han?, P. Sjeggestad, ed., Sorlands
Public, Oslo, 1988.
Interview-article
in UNITED IN HOPE: ARABS AND JEWS TALK ABOUT PEACE, Carol J. Birkland,
ed., WCC Publications, Geneva, 1987, pp. 72-81.
“Two
Nations under God: An Interview with a Leader of Israel’s Orthodox
Peace Move-ment,” with Michael M. Cohen, RECONSTRUCTIONIST,
September 1988, p.18-20, 24.
“Sharing
the Holy Land: A Zionist’s View,” THE
OTHER SIDE, January/February 1989, pp. 30-33.
“Blessing
Both Jew and Palestinian: A Religious Zionist Perspective,” THE
CHRISTIAN CENTURY, Dec. 20-27, 1989; reprinted in WALKING THE RED LINE:
ISRAELIS IN SEARCH OF JUSTICE FOR PALESTINE,” Deena Hurwitz,
ed., New Society Publishers, Philadelphia, 1992, pp. 119-127, and (in
Dutch) in EEN BEVRIJDEND WOORD UIT JERUZALEM?, G. H. Cohen Stuart, ed.,
Uitgeverij Boekencentrum B.V., Den Haag, pp. 79-82.
“Jerusalem
Day After the Killings,” NEW OUTLOOK, Tel Aviv, July, 1990.
Katzenstein
Award Acceptance Speech, HARVARD DIVINITY BULLETIN, Cambridge, MA,
Vol.XX. No. 2. (Summer 1990).
“Missing
Ingredient for Middle East Peace,” guest column in FOR A CHANGE,
London, August/September 1991, p. 16; reprinted in THE OTHER SIDE,
January/February 1992, (in Swedish) in VAR LOSEN, Nr. 2/3-92, and as
postscript to WALKING THE RED LINE article (see above).
“Truth,
Justice, and Peace,” ECHOES OF PEACE, Niwano Peace Foundation,
Tokyo, No. 42, July 1993, pp. 4-6; reprinted (in German) as “Wahrheit,
Gerechtigkeit und Frieden” in FRIEDE UBER ISRAEL, Wolfsburg, 2/98
(July 1998), pp. 57-64, 81.
“Rehumanizing
the ‘Enemy’ and Confronting Ourselves:
Challenges for Educators in an Era of Peace,”
PALESTINE-ISRAEL JOURNAL, Jerusalem, Vol. III, No. 1, Winter
1996, pp. 65-70.
“Israel’s
Two Solitudes,” PS
Journal, U.S.A., No. 54, January 3, 1996; reprinted from earlier version
in CATHOLIC NEW TIMES, Toronto, Nov. 19, 1995, p. 10.
“Sharing
Jerusalem: The Spiritual
and Political Challenges,” SIDIC Journal (English and French
editions), Rome, Vol. XXIX, No. 2-3, 1996, pp. 3-9.
“’Hamidbar
Medabber’ (De woestijn spreekt—The desert speaks):
De woestijn in de joodse spiritualiteit (The desert
in Jewish spirituality),” in WOESTIJN EN OPENBARING (Desert and
Revelation), Uitgeverij Kok, Kampen, 1996, pp. 27-36.
“Clarity
Can Avoid Catastrophe,” article on the controversial Har Homa
building project, THE JERUSALEM POST, November 5, 1996.
“A
Practical Connection between the Heavens and the Earth in
Israel-Palestine,” in UNDERSTANDING ONE ANOTHER IN ISRAELI
SOCIETY, Ron Kronish, ed., Interreligious Coordinating Council in
Israel, Jerusalem, September 1997, pp.19-23.
“Israel’s
Peace Laboratories,” THE TABLET, London, May 2, 1998, p. 546.
“Israel
at 50: Uncertain
Celebration,” PS Journal, U.S.A., No. 106, June 3, 1998; reprinted
(in French) as “50 Ans d’Israel:
Ombres et Lumieres,” CHANGER INTERNATIONAL,
Boulogne-Billancourt, France, no. 286, July-August 1998, pp. 8-10.
“Division
and Conflict in Israel: A
Jewish-Christian Exchange,” with Tom Getman, CHRISTIAN CENTURY,
August 26-September 2, 1998, pp. 786-788.
“Sarajevo,
Jerusalem, and Edith Stein: Interfaith Relations on the Eve of a New Millennium,”
published in CATHOLIC NEW TIMES, Toronto, Vol. 23, No. 6, April 4, 1999,
pp. 10-11, under the title “The first covenant was sealed with the
rainbow. Does hope for interfaith harmony begin there?”; also in
Croatian-language Catholic journal (lecture delivered in Sarajevo, Nov.
1998, and in Jerusalem and Florence, Dec.1998).
“Passionate
Faith and Its Risks,”
COMMON GROUND, U.K. Council of Christians and Jews, London, 1999.
“Holy
Land—Holistic Peace,”
CORRYMEELA CONNECTIONS, The Corrymeela Community (Northern Ireland),
Vol. 4, No. 1, Spring/Summer 2002, pp. 18-21.
“A
Holistic Peace Process for the Middle East,” in HOW LONG, O LORD?:
VOICES FROM THE GROUND AND VISIONS FOR THE FUTURE IN
ISRAEL/PALESTINE,
Maurine
and Robert Tobin, eds., Cowley Publications, Cambridge, MA, 2003, pp.
233-237.
“Jews,
Muslims, and Peace,” co-authored with Imam Yahya Hendi, CURRENT
DIALOGUE No. 41, June-July 2003, World Council of Churches, Geneva, pp.
12-13 (and disseminated on various web sites).
“Healing
the Holy Land: Interreligious
Peacebuilding in Israel/Palestine,” United States Institute of
Peace, Washington, D.C., September, 2003 (research monograph No. 51 in
PEACEWORKS series, accessible online at www.usip.org).
“Religious
Responses to Atrocity,” TIKKUN, Vol. 18, No. 5, September-October,
2003, pp. 28-31, 44.
“Peacebuilding in Israel/Palestine: A 25-Year Retrospective,” in WAGING PEACE: A TWO-PART DISCUSSION OF RELIGION-BASED PEACEMAKING, Washington National Cathedral, November, 2003, pp. 11-14.
“Sharing Sacred History and Geography,” ZION’S HERALD, January/February 2004,
pp. 33-34, 38.
“Pope John Paul II’s Holy Land Pilgrimage: A Jewish Appraisal,” in JOHN PAUL II IN THE HOLY LAND: IN HIS OWN WORDS, Paulist Press, New York, 2005.
Book review article on The Rapture Exposed: The Message of Hope in the Book of Revelation by Barbara R. Rossing, CONVERSATIONS IN RELIGION AND THEOLOGY,
Vol. 3, Issue 1, May 2005, pp. 54-60.
“Reclaiming Dignity and Hope,” co-authored with Saliba Sarsar, in MIDDLE EAST TIMES, FOR A CHANGE (forthcoming), and several other outlets including Web sites, October, 2006.
“Dreams and Dream Interpretation in Said Nursi’s Risale-i Nur: Islamic, Judaic, and Universal Resonances,” forthcoming in an anthology of papers delivered at an academic conference on Nursi’s work convened in Istanbul in August, 2005.
“Krister Stendahl on Leadership,” an interview-article forthcoming in the HARVARD DIVINITY BULLETIN.
