“This initiative is an opportunity on the largest possible stage for us all—Jews, Christians, Muslims and Samaritans—to reflect about otherness and complexity, about core issues of who each of us is, and about what we hope to be,” said Professor Steven Fine.For some background on the exhibition, and on the Samaritans, see: Encountering Samaritans. YU project explores our distant, oft-estranged cousins (LARRY YUDELSON, The Jewish Standard).
For the documentary film associated with the exhibition, see the H-Judaic notice: EVENT: The YU Israelite Samaritans Project: First Public Viewing of "The Samaritans: A Biblical People," NYC (March 27),
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