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Celebrating fifteen years fostering understanding through education and inter-religious cooperation

The Sister Rose Thering Endowment
for Jewish-Christian Studies
SETON HALL UNIVERSITY

 

 

Lawrence Frizzell, S.T.L., S.S.L., D.Phil. Associate Professor, Department Chair (2006-); Director, Institute of Judaeo-Christian Studies. Fr. Frizzell pursued graduate work at the University of Ottawa, the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome and the University of Oxford, where he specialized in the Qumran Scrolls.

David M. Bossman, S.T.B., M.A., M.S., Ph.D., Professor, Executive Director of the Sister Rose Thering Endowment, with graduate degrees from The Catholic University in Washington, D.C., the State University of New York at Albany, and Saint Louis University.  Editor of Biblical Theology Bulletin since 1981, he explores Christian and Jewish origins, history, and cross-cultural values in a contemporary settings.

 

 

Alan Brill, Ph.D. The first faculty to hold the Cooperman/Ross Faculty Chair in Honor of Sister Rose Thering, Dr. Brill holds a rabbinical degree from Yeshiva University and a doctorate from Fordham University. He began teaching courses on Modern Jewish Thinkers and Perspectives on the Holocaust in the fall semester of 2007.

 

 

Asher Finkel, Ph.D., Professor, holds a rabbinical degree from Yeshiva University and a doctoral degree from the University of Tuebingen, Germany.  Rabbi Finkel's special interests include post-biblical Judaism, Jewish thinkers and early Christianity.

 

 

 

John Morley, Ph.D., Long-time, highly respected department adjunct, Fr. Morley completed his doctoral work at New York University and serves as Associate Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at Seton Hall University. He teaches the The Holocaust: History and Interpretation in the Department of Jewish-Christian studies and serves in international Church-related study projects on the Holocaust.

 

 


 

Leon Cooperman, lead donor of the Cooperman/Ross Faculty Chair in honor of Sister Rose Thering, greeting Sister Rose at the farewell concert on October 23, 2005.

 


Board members Barbara Wind and Lois Lautenberg with Dr. Paul Winkler of the New Jersey Holocaust Commission at the 2007 Evening of Roses

“Through the Sister Rose Thering Endowment, I learned not only what prejudice begets, but also what kindness and inquiry can deliver.”

Phyllis Bruno, Social Studies Teacher, Franklin, NJ Township.

 

The Sister Rose Thering Endowment
Seton Hall University
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