Susannah Heschel | The Triangle of Faith: Interfaith Relations and the Question of Race. A conversation between Prof. Susannah Heschel and Bishop William J. Barber III

Presented by Susannah Heschel, Eli M. Black Distinguished Professor and chair of Jewish Studies, Dartmouth College.

Tuesday, October 27, 2026:

Interfaith Relations and the Question of Race: A conversation between Prof. Susannah Heschel and Bishop William J. Barber III

Rev. Barber is a social activisit, professor in the Practice of Public Theology and Public Policy, and the founding director of the Center for Public Theology & Public Policy at Yale Divinity School

Moderated by Greg Sterling (Dean, Yale Divinity)

Heschel is the Eli M. Black Distinguished Professor and chair of Jewish Studies at Dartmouth College, and is currently the Gerard Weinstock Visiting Professor of Jewish Studies at Harvard University. Her scholarship focuses on Jewish thought in Germany during the 19th and 20th centuries. A Guggenheim Fellow, she has received research grants from the Ford Foundation, the Carnegie Corporation, and the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, and residential fellowships from the National Humanities Center, the Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin, and the Maimonides Institute in Hamburg. She is the recipient of five honorary doctorates from universities in the United States, Canada, Germany, and Switzerland. Her writing has been featured in Le Monde,

Der Spiegel, Sueddeutsche Zeitung, Der Freitag, Die Zeit and Ha’aretz.

The Franz Rosenzweig Lectures are made possible by the Arthur Cohen Fund and the Yale Program in Jewish Studies