This month, Notre Dame President Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C., announced the first program in an important new initiative for the University, the Notre Dame Adult Travel/Learn Program. This 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, Israel.
“I am pleased to announce that Notre Dame is offering its alumni and friends the opportunity to participate in a new program in Israel that is important to the mission of the University,” Fr. Jenkins said. “During the program, in a very special setting, participants and faculty will engage in dialogue and pursue a deeper understanding of the multifaceted relationship, past and present, of the three Abrahamic faiths on the land from which they arose. If you seek a substantive engagement with the intellectual life of the University, I hope you will take advantage of this opportunity to explore the Holy Land from the unique perspective that Notre Dame can provide.”
Designed at Notre Dame for instruction and insight, the program offers an exceptional opportunity to examine how Christian, Jewish, and Muslim history, thought, and belief are intertwined and co-exist in the Holy Land.
Alumni and friends will enjoy thought-provoking lectures given by an expert faculty, private visits, walking tours, and trips to sites of great historic importance and deep religious significance throughout the Holy Land. The program will facilitate active learning and personal discovery and enrichment.
The Tantur Ecumenical Institute in Jerusalem 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.
Anthropology professor Rev. Patrick Gaffney, C.S.C., is the program’s faculty director. Gaffney is also a faculty fellow in the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies and the director of the College Seminar Program in the College of Arts and Letters.
For more information about Three Faiths One Land: Exploring the Holy Land, a Mendoza College of Business International Program, visit the program website at Tantur2008.nd.edu, or e-mail Program Director Tom Dowd ’71 at tdowd1@nd.edu.
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