Program Faculty Includes -
(subject to change)
 Gabriel Said Reynolds, the program’s Faculty Director, is Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies and Theology at the University of Notre Dame. Gabriel research interests are Islamic Origins and Muslim/Christian relations. His dissertation, on a medieval Islamic history of Christianity, won the Field Prize at Yale and is published (2004) by EJ Brill as, “A Muslim Theologian in the Sectarian Milieu: Abd al-Jabbâr and the 'Critique of Christian Origins'”. In 2005 Reynolds hosted an international conference on the Quran at Notre Dame, the proceedings of which have been published (2007) by Routledge as “The Quran in Its Historical Context.” At Notre Dame Gabriel teaches classes from “Foundations of Theology” to “The Islamic Challenge to Christian Theology” to “Islamic Origins.” Outside of Notre Dame he has conducted research and delivered lectures in cities throughout the Middle East, including Cairo, Jerusalem, Beirut, Damascus, and Tehran. Gabriel and his wife Lourdes have three children: Luke, Emmanuel and Theresa.
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 Rev. Michael McGarry, C.S.P. is the Rector of Tantur. As a Paulist priest, his ministries have included campus ministry and university New Testament teaching (University of Texas, Austin), downtown ministry (Boston), rector of St. Paul’s College (the Paulist Fathers’ seminary, Washington, DC), and, most recently, pastor of Newman Hall, the Catholic parish for the University of California, Berkeley. He has written extensively on Christian-Jewish relations (including Christology after Auschwitz and, with Yehezkel Landau, Pope John Paul II in the Holy Land) and serves on the Latin Patriarch’s Commission on Relations with the Jewish People.
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Allan Rabinowitz has been a licensed tour and educational guide in Israel for twenty years. Allan has guided for the Hebrew University, the Jerusalem Municipality, the Tantur Institute, the British Council of Christians and Jews and many other organizations. He lectures widely on Israel in the US. He earned a B.A. in history from the University of California, Berkeley, an M.A. in Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Minnesota, and studied at the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem. He has published fiction and non-fiction in various magazines and, for a number of years, he wrote a regular travel column for the Jerusalem Post.
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 Sister Bridget Tighe, F.M.D.M., Vice-Rector of Tantur since May 2006, is a member of an international Franciscan Missionary congregation. Her previous ministries include medical/social work with Palestinian refugees in Jordan, nursing posts in Ireland and the UK, and consultant to an HIV/AIDS centre in Lusaka, Zambia. More recently, she was Founding Principal of the Margaret Beaufort Institute, the Catholic House of the Cambridge Theological Federation that comprises Methodist, Orthodox, United Reformed, and Anglican colleges, associated with the University of Cambridge. She was a member of the British Methodist/Roman Catholic Committee and has lectured on Saint Francis of Assisi and Islam.
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Deborah Weissman was born in New York City and settled in Israel in 1972. For many years she was the director of the Kerem Institute for Teacher Training for Humanist-Jewish Education. Her Ph.D. is from the Hebrew University on the social history of Jewish women’s education. She is one of the founding members of Kehillat Yedidya, an Orthodox synagogue in Bak’a which integrates Halacha (Jewish religious law) with feminism, tolerance, and pluralism. Debbie is involved with Jewish religious feminism, interfaith dialogue and the religious peace movement.
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Paul Wright is President of the Jerusalem University College. Paul received his Ph.D. from Hebrew Union College (Cincinnati) in the area of Bible and Ancient Near East. He has taught Biblical History and Geography at Jerusalem University College for the last ten years. He is author of Understanding the New Testament: An Introductory Atlas.
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 Tom Dowd (ND ’71), Program Director, designs, develops, and delivers high-content open-enrollment, noncredit international programs for the University of Notre Dame Mendoza College of Business.
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Last updated on
July 17, 2008
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