Harvey & Leanne Schneider Interfaith Forum
Courageous Faith in Tumultuous Times
The Impact of Religious Ideas on Our Common Life
A Weekend with Rabbi Dr. Rachel Mikva
Friday, April 17–Sunday, April 19
Presented by the Harvey and Leanne Schneider Interfaith Forum in partnership with Grace United Methodist Church and Congregation Shaare Emeth.
Events with Rabbi Mikva
This weekend is an invitation to listen deeply, ask hard questions, and learn across difference while remaining grounded in faith, curiosity, and shared responsibility.
About Rabbi Dr. Rachel S. Mikva
Rabbi Dr. Rachel S. Mikva serves as the Herman E. Schaalman Professor in Jewish Studies and Senior Faculty Fellow of the InterReligious Institute at Chicago Theological Seminary. The Institute and the Seminary work at the cutting edge of theological education, training religious leaders who can build bridges across cultural and religious difference for the critical work of social transformation. Ordained in the Reform movement, Rabbi Mikva served as a congregational rabbi for 13 years before returning to the academy. With a passion for justice and academic expertise in the history of scriptural interpretation, her courses and publications address a range of Jewish and comparative studies, with a special interest in the intersections of sacred texts, culture and ethics.
Her most recent books are Dangerous Religious Ideas: The Deep Roots of Self-Critical Faith in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam (Beacon, 2020); a textbook for graduate and undergraduate students, Interreligious Studies: An Introduction (Cambridge University Press, 2023); and Monotheism and Pluralism (Cambridge University Press, 2024). Invited to give the 2025 Silber-Obrecht Lectures, she is expanding them into a volume for Georgetown University Press: What Does It Mean to Be Human? Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Perspectives.
