 he University of Notre Dame is inaugurating a new series of educational travel/learn programs in Israel in 2008. The first program, “Three Faiths One Land: Exploring the Holy Land”, will be offered April 28-May 6, 2008, at the beautiful Tantur Ecumenical Institute in Jerusalem. The institute has been administered by Notre Dame since 1972 when then-President Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., joined Pope Paul VI in establishing Tantur as a gathering place for scholars and pilgrims of all Christian faiths. Tantur stands on a hilltop at the southern edge of Jerusalem overlooking the Judean hills and nearby Bethlehem through groves of olive, pine, and fruit trees.
Designed at Notre Dame for instruction and insight, this program offers an exceptional opportunity to examine how Christian, Jewish, and Muslim history, thought, and belief are intertwined in the Holy Land. Along with thought-provoking lectures given by an expert faculty participants will enjoy private visits, walking tours, and trips to sites of great historic importance and deep religious significance. Rev. Patrick Gaffney, C.S.C., a member of Notre Dame’s Department of Anthropology, Faculty Fellow in the Kroc Institute of International Peace Studies, and director of the College Seminar Program in the College of Arts and Letters, is the program’s faculty director.
Further information about this program, a Mendoza College of Business International Program, can be obtained by e-mailing program director Tom Dowd at tdowd1@nd.edu.
Last updated on
February 29, 2008
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