Moderator: Rabbi Frank Stern
Ordained in 1965 at the Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati, Ohio, Rabbi Stern served for twenty years as Rabbi of Temple Beth Sholom in Santa Ana, California. As Executive Director of the Board of Rabbis of Greater Philadelphia, he headed an agency that provided chaplains to nursing homes, hospitals and prisons in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Still actively involved in the Central Conference of American Rabbis, Rabbi Stern served as President of the Orange County Board of Rabbis and President of the Pacific Association of Reform Rabbis (seven western states). Until his retirement, Dr. Stern taught in the Department of Sociology and the Department of Comparative Religion at Cal State University Fullerton. He still teaches at Orange Coast College. Rabbi Stern is the author of the book A Rabbi Looks at Jesus’ Parables. He lectures extensively throughout California. Rabbi Stern is President of the Orange County Interfaith Network (OCIN) and the Founder of the Council of Religious Leaders of Orange County.
Fr. Tom Welbers
Fr. Tom Welbers has been a Catholic priest for nearly fifty years, most of that time serving in parish and college campus ministry. He also has professional degrees in theology and liturgy, as well as institutional management, and continues avidly to explore pastoral theology, Scripture, liturgy, ecumenical and interfaith relations, and spiritual direction. He has a passion for sharing insight into our Christian heritage with others, through teaching, writing, and leading pilgrimages, especially to Early Christian World sites in Turkey. Now actively retired from parish ministry, he lives at Nazareth House in Los Angeles. www.tomwelbers.net.
Shaikh Suhail Mulla, MSW
Shaikh Suhail Mulla currently serves as the Interim Executive Director of Access California Services (accesscal.org) – California’s largest Muslim Social Service Agency. Previously, Shaikh Suhail served as an imam at the Islamic Society of Orange County and the Islamic Center of Glendale. Shaikh Suhail is a graduate of the world-renowned Al-Azhar University in Cairo, Egypt where he received his Bachelor’s degree in Shari’ah (Islamic Law). He also completed a two-year Islamic Studies program at Al-Asheera Al-Muhammadiya, an Al-Azhar affiliated institute in Cairo, Egypt, where he studied under renowned Azhari scholars. Shaikh Suhail has been an active member of the Southern California Muslim community for many years. He has lectured at educational and religious institutions, conducted numerous classes and served as a mentor and online counselor for Muslim youth. Shaikh Suhail lives in Orange County with his wife, Lobna, and their four children.
Rabbi Joel Berman
Date: Tuesday, September 29, 2015
Time: 6:30pm
Venue: Pacifica Institute, Orange County
18022 Cowan, Ste 100, Irvine, CA 92614
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