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Belle Michael

Belle Michael

Rabbi, Campus Rabbi and Hillel Executive Director

California Lutheran University

Rabbi Belle Michael is Campus Rabbi and Hillel Executive Director at California Lutheran University, Thousand Oaks, California. She gave a version of these remarks while leading a “Dwelling in a Tradition” session at the Interfaith Understanding Conference at Augustana College.

Published Articles

Article

Building an Interfaith Bridge

Belle Michael

No. 40 · Fall 2014

Drawing on the holiday of Shavuot, the Book of Ruth, and Martin Buber’s I-Thou, Rabbi Belle Michael picks up Patel’s bridge metaphor and identifies three building blocks for it: experiences with people of different ethnic and religious groups, genuine and long-lasting relationships, and the holy curiosity to ask the questions we are otherwise afraid to ask.

Belle Michael

Published Articles

Building an Interfaith Bridge