Project activities have included:

Conferences and seminars: on “Secularism, Spirituality, and the Future of American Jewry,” with Jonathan Woocher, Sylvia Barack Fishman, Dennis Prager, Jack Wertheimer, and others; on “Christianity and the Holocaust,” with Steven Aschheim (Hebrew University), Steven Katz (Boston University), Augustine DiNoia, O.P. (National Conference of Catholic Bishops), and David Steinmetz (Duke University Divinity School); on Reform Judaism's new “Statement of Principles,” with Rabbis Jack Luxemburg, David Novak, and Joshua Haberman; and on “The Vanishing American Jew, Revisited,” with Charles Liebman (Bar-Ilan University, Israel).

At another seminar called “Converting the Jews,” prominent Baptist and Jewish clergymen discussed a controversial new Southern Baptist publication about evangelism targeted at Jews. And in an ongoing dialogue group, Jewish and evangelical clergymen examine issues of common faith and of theological and political dispute.

Publications. Materials from seminars mentioned above were published in the booklet “Secularism, Spirituality, and the Future of American Jewry,” edited by Elliott Abrams and David G. Dalin, and the Center Conversation “Reform Judaism: A New Path?”

Subjects of future conferences (if funding permits) include the changing relations between Israel and American Jewry; the place of American Jewry in a society where Islam and non-biblical religions are growing very fast; and, when results of the 2000 National Jewish Population Survey are released, how the American Jewish community has changed since the last such survey was taken (1990).

As issues arise, we will continue the dialogue between Jewish and Protestant evangelical clergy.