Rabbi Dr. Alon Goshen-Gottstein
Director
the Elijah Interfaith Institute
Israel
What is the common voice which religions can bring to the big global concerns? Do the various religions share a core ethic, and if so, how does that relate to their distinctive beliefs, sense of identity and understanding of ‘the other’? The Parliament of the World Religions, which met in Melbourne December 2009, provided some interesting windows in to those debates.
“Encounter”, the highly acclaimed series of Australian ABC Radio National, interviewed Rabbi Alon Goshen-Gottstein on how religions can have a sense of the “other”.
