One of our advisers, Dr Irene Lancaster, gave Sunday’s ‘Thought for the Week’ radio broadcast on the BBC. Dr Lancaster is Research Fellow in the Centre for Jewish Studies at the University of Manchester, has recently been appointed to the Council of Lord Carey’s Foundation for Reconciliation in the Middle East and has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
Brief Encounters
Dr Irene Lancaster
I wonder if you are, like me, excited by train journeys? You get on a train and wonder who will be sitting opposite you. Will it be a ‘stranger on a train’, intent on their computer game, or will it be a true ‘brief encounter’, which will change you forever and make life seem even more meaningful than it was before?’
In the last few weeks, I have made two train journeys down south in order to do my bit for interfaith relations and world peace. But on both occasions it was the journeys down that set the mood of what was to come. On the first trip, I got into conversation with two students from Manchester University who were off to spend the Jewish Passover in Haifa, a town in northern Israel, on a project bringing Israeli Jews and Israeli Arabs closer together.
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