Rabbi David Rosen will be visiting New Zealand on November 24 and 25. During his visit Rabbi Rosen will receive an official welcome at Orakei Marae and meet with MPs and representatives from the Human Rights Commission. He will also be guest of honour at a Ministerial dinner (in Wellington). There will be two public lectures: one in Auckland on November 24 at the Auckland University School of Business and one in Wellington on November 25. The topic for the Wellington lecture will be “Is religion the problem or the solution? Christians, Muslims and Jews in the Middle East”. More details of the two public lectures will be provided later.
For the past four years Rabbi Rosen has served as the Chairman of IJCIC, the International Jewish Committee on Interreligious Consultations, a broad-based coalition of Jewish organisations representing World Jewry to other religions.
He is an International President of Religions for Peace (WCRP); Honorary President of the International Council of Christians and Jews (ICCJ), after being President 1998-2002; and serves as a member of the Advisory Committee of the World Congress of Imams and Rabbis. Last year he was invited as a delegate to a historic Interfaith Summit in Madrid, convened by King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia.
Rabbi Rosen will be a keynote speaker at the Parliament of World’s Religions in Melbourne in early December (see below).
