Our interfaith calendar shows the synagogue in the city of Fürth in January. The local Jewish community has an eventful history that is deeply rooted in the town's history. The first Jewish inhabitants in Fürth were mentioned as early as 1440, and from 1528 the community played an important role in ...
At the end of 2024, the BaFID Interfaith Calendar was presented to representatives of the participating religious communities, members of the Board of Trustees, and numerous other personalities.
The calendar, which combines the most important festivals and holidays of Christianity, Judaism, and I...
How religions encounter each other characterizes not only interreligious coexistence but also the self-image of the community. Religions may perceive the "religious other" as foreign or familiar. Judaism, Christianity, and Islam are related to each other, so individual ideas of the "other religion" ...
The 7th conference of the Network Jewish Franconia took place on 24 November 2024 at the Jewish Museum Franconia in Fürth. In his workshop, Dr Nathanael Riemer, a research associate specialising in Judaism, discussed how life stories can be reconstructed from various documents.
“How is the term jihad to be understood?” These and other questions will be at the BaFID Instagram channel discussed. It is a key component of the “WissenMachtStark” project, which was launched and funded (01.12.2023 to 31.12.2024) by the Federal Ministry of the Interior and for Home Affairs. The In...
In June 2024, Scharrer Middle School received the Etz Chaim Cup, which is awarded by the Gesellschaft für Christlich-Jüdische Zusammenarbeit in Franken e.V. (GCJZ) for projects that emphasize and promote cooperation and mutual respect between the three monotheistic religions. The school approached BaFID with a request for support in organizing an interfaith workshop.
BaFID's digital Interreligious Calendar for 2023 can be accessed here. The individual calendar pages depict the central holidays in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam and their interreligious references. A print version was also published for 2023, entitled "Faces of the Region—Interreligious through ...
The „Erlanger Interreligiösen Gespräche“ were continued on 13 October 2021. The topic was: „Learning IN Religion?“ Perspectives on „Transmission of Faith“ in Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Here can be found the fourth edition of the co-operation event between BaFID and the Erlangen City Library: L...
