Rabbi Shmuley Boteach
Dubbed by Newsweek “the most famous rabbi in America”, winner of the prestigious Times “Preacher of the Year” and founder of the Oxford L’Chaim Society, Orthodox Rabbi Shmuley Boteach presents the US TV show Shalom in the Home and is the best-selling author of twenty books including The Broken American Male, An Intelligent Person’s Guide to Judaism and Kosher Sex. Boteach is well known for his robust defences of traditional Judaism and his outspoken opposition to Christian evangelists who try to persuade Jews to believe Jesus was the Messiah. More here.
Dr Michael L Brown
Michael Brown earned his Ph.D. in Semitic languages from New York University and is the author of several books including Our Hands are Stained with Blood: The Tragic Story of the “Church” and the Jewish People and the four-volume series Answering Jewish Objections to Jesus. He and is also a contributor to The Oxford Dictionary of Jewish Religion. More here.
Moderator - Rabbi Dan Cohn-Sherbok
Born 1945 in Denver, Colorado, Rabbi Cohn-Sherbok served as Chaplain of the Colorado House of Representatives. He received a doctorate in philosophy from the University of Cambridge in England. Later, he received a doctorate in divinity from the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, New York. He taught theology at the University of Kent and served as Director of the Centre for the Study of Religion and Society. In addition to his current position at the University of Wales, Lampeter where he is Professor of Judaism, has been a Visiting Fellow at Wolfson College, Cambridge, and Harris Manchester College, Oxford, a Corresponding Fellow of the Academy of Jewish Philosophy, and a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society. He has also served as a Visiting Scholar of Mansfield College, Oxford, the Oxford Centre for Postgraduate Studies, and Sarum College. He is married to Lavinia Cohn-Sherbok. More here.
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The above debates are sponsored by Christian Witness to Israel, Messianic Testimony, and Chosen People Ministries (UK)