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10JUL 2025
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BaFID at the Nuremberg Digital Festival 2025: Why tech cannot do without culture
From 30 June to 9 July 2025, the Nürnberg Digital Festival (NUEDIGITAL) once again transformed the metropolitan region into a hub for digital issues of the future. Under the motto ‘TECH to the PEOPLE,’ more than 18,000 participants from the worlds of business, science, education, and culture gathered to discuss artificial intelligence, sustainability, digital ethics, […]
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20JUN 2025
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Toys and faith: What do religions have to do with our toys?
“Playing means discovering, trying things out, and changing perspectives—but what does that have to do with religion? More than you think!” This was the motto of the BaFID’s children’s university in Nuremberg, an educational program organised by the Department of Culture and Leisure (KUF) for all curious children between the ages of eight and twelve […]
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28MAY 2025
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Evening Meeting for Dialogue
As part of an evening of dialogue with the Jewish-Muslim couple Meron Mendel and Saba-Nur Cheema on 27 May 2025 at FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg, the two guests got to know the work of BaFID. They also received the Interreligious Calendar and two volumes of the book series Key Concepts in Interreligious Discourses as a commemorative present.
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13JAN 2025
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January: The History of the Jewish Community of Fürth and its Synagogue
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 southern Germany. Despite many […]
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13JAN 2025
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Handover of the Interfaith Calendar 2025: A symbol of dialogue and cooperation
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 Islam, was created by BaFID to promote understanding and tolerance between the three […]
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11DEC 2024
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Educational Module: The “Religious Other” in Judaism, Christianity and Islam
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” are either adopted unchanged or reinterpreted in one’s own theological ideas. Four lectures on this topic were […]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” are either adopted unchanged or reinterpreted in one’s own theological ideas. Four lectures on this topic were […]
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26NOV 2024
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Puzzling with snippets of text: How to reconstruct biographies from book titles, printer’s licences and letters
The 7th conference of the Jewish Franconia Network took place on 24 November 2024 at the Jewish Museum Franconia in Fürth. It was opened by District Administrator Armin Kroder and Dr Annett Haberlah-Pohl, Head of Cultural Affairs and District Heritage Officer of the District of Middle Franconia. Professor Dr Lucia Raspe (Salomon Ludwig Steinheim Institute) […]
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13NOV 2024
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#AskYourScientist: The BaFID team answers questions about religions on Instagram
“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 Instagram channel was launched at the […]
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05NOV 2024
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Interreligious Calendar for the Year 2025
BaFID is publishing a print version of the Interreligious Calendar for the second time. For the year 2025, the focus is on the communities in the region. Twelve communities and places of religious life in the European metropolitan region of Nuremberg are shown in pictures in this successful piece of jewellery for every wall. Each […]
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29JUL 2024
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Start of the Co-operation Project with the Scharrer Middle School
In June 2024, Scharrer Middle School received the Etz Chaim Cup, which has been awarded by the Gesellschaft für Christlich-Jüdische Zusammenarbeit in Franken e.V. (GCJZ) for 10 years now for projects that emphasise and promote cooperation and mutual respect between the three monotheistic religions. The school is given the opportunity to realise its own ideas […]
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