January 24, 2012, 7 p.m.
Museum of the City of Lodz (15 Ogrodowa Street)
Lecture by Rabbi Sacha Pecaric from New York:
The Book of Psalms - Dialogue of Christianity and Judaism. What do we share, what makes us different?
Organizers: The Marek Edelman Dialogue Centre, the Museum of the City of Lodz
Rabbi Sacha Pecaric is a trained philologist and theologian, he graduated from rabbinical school in New York and philosophy at Columbia University. He also studied in Prague. In the years 1997-2004, he was the head of the Krakow branch of the Ronald S. Lauder Foundation, during which time he founded the Pardes Association (www.pardes.pl), publishing books on religious issues. He is a co-author and editor of the first post-war Jewish translation of Torah into Polish. Subsequent volumes were published in 2001-2006: Genesis (Bereshit, 2001), Exodus (Shemot, 2003), Leviticus (Wajikra, 2005), The Book of Numbers (Bemidbar, 2005) and Deuteronomy (Dewarim, 2006) . In 2011, on his initiative, virtual Yeshiva Pardes was established, which runs weekly lectures on Judaism. Currently, he is working on a translation of the Book of Psalms. He lives near New York.