* This is a non-City Sikh Network event
Descended from Abraham: Exploring the Common Heritage of Jews, Christians and Muslims
by Dr Edward Kessler
Executive Director, The Woolf Institute
When: ? Thursday, 24 March 2011. Doors open from 6:30pm. Lecture starts 7pm.
Where: ?Ramada Jarvis Hyde Park Hotel, 150 Bayswater Road, London W2 4RT
What: ? Tickets are free but spaces are limited.
Email info@projectmosaic.net to reserve your place.
About the speaker:
Dr Edward Kessler is a leading thinker in interfaith relations, including
Jewish-Christian and Jewish-Muslim relations. He is Founder and Executive
Director of the Woolf Institute and Fellow of St Edmund’s College,
Cambridge. Dr Kessler has written or edited nine books and dozens of
articles, and also writes for print and broadcast media. His publications
include Bound by the Bible: Jews, Christians and the Sacrifice of Isaac, A
Dictionary of Jewish-Christian Relations and What Do Jews Believe? In 2008
Dr Kessler completed a charity bicycle ride from Cairo to Jerusalem and
plans a similar ride from Amman to Jerusalem in November 2011.
About Project Mosaic:
Project Mosaic is a charity that teaches people to be more tolerant of those
coming from a different background, whether racial, ethnic, religious,
national or economic. It does this by promoting interfaith and intercultural
tolerance, multiethnic good citizenship and integration of immigrant
communities, and by combating prejudice, group hatred and extremism. Project
Mosaic was set up in memory of David Fontana, one of the 343 firefighters
that died on September 11, 2001 while helping to rescue some 28,000 people
from the World Trade Center in New York.
Project Mosaic is registered charity number 1127954
www.projectmosaic.net