David Bollag

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David Bollag ( Hebrew דוד בולג; * 1958 in Basel ) is a Swiss rabbi . It is assigned to modern orthodoxy .

Education

David Bollag grew up in Basel and studied Jewish studies and philosophy in New York and Jerusalem after graduating from high school. He was a student of Joseph Soloveitchik at Yeshiva University and received his rabbinical ordination in 1987. He received his doctorate from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2005 with a thesis on Hermann Cohen's interpretation of the Jewish religious law.

science

Stations in his academic career were: Martin Buber Institute for Jewish Studies in Cologne (lecturer), University for Jewish Studies in Heidelberg (research associate 1999-2008), Institute for Jewish-Christian Research at the University of Lucerne (teaching and research assignment, since 2001 ), Theological Faculty of the University of Zurich (teaching position, since 2006), Institute for Religious Law of the University of Friborg (Research Associate, since 2009).

Even after his Alija , Bollag continues to teach several times a year at the Universities of Zurich and Lucerne.

He has also been a lecturer in the Jerusalem Theological Year since 1999 .

Interreligious Dialogue

David Bollag is involved in interreligious dialogue ; he is a member of both the Jewish / Roman Catholic Discussion Commission (as Jewish Co-President) and the Evangelical-Jewish Discussion Commission (also as Co-President) in Switzerland.

On May 24, 2012, a symposium on the state of Jewish-Christian relations took place at the Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies. Cardinal Kurt Koch and David Bollag presented the Catholic and Jewish positions respectively.

Bollag was one of the signatories of the Orthodox Rabbinical Declaration on Christianity in 2015 . Together with Jehoshua Ahrens , another signatory, he published the German-language commentary volume on this declaration.

At the Katholikentag in Münster 2018 , David Bollag took part in the panel “Jerusalem Trials: Religion and Violence” together with Nicodemus Schnabel and Muhammad Sameer Murtaza.

Bollag wrote a review of the document Grace and Calling Without Remorse by Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI), published in 2018 , which was published in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung . This criticism was particularly noticed in the Catholic media.

Rabbi in Efrat

David Bollag worked as a community rabbi in Zurich (1987 to 1990) and Cologne (1994 to 1999).

David Bollag has lived with his family in Efrat , a nationally religious West Bank settlement in the greater Jerusalem area ( Gush Etzion ), since 2005 . Since 2008 he has been the rabbi of the newly founded Zemer haZayit community in Efrat. He shares the leadership of the community with his wife, the psychologist Caroline Peyser-Bollag. The reason for the foundation was the desire of some women to say a Dvar Torah (sermon), which the existing synagogue community refused to do.

Zemer haZayit sees himself as “modern orthodox”: In coordination with Chief Rabbi Shlomo Riskin , David Bollag and his congregation develop egalitarian forms of worship that are in harmony with the Halacha . The separation of men's and women's areas ( mechiza ), which is characteristic of Orthodox communities, was implemented in such a way that women and men have equal access to the Torah shrine .

Publications (selection)

  • Jewish Religious Law. In: Peter Joel Hurwitz, Jacques Picard , Avraham Steinberg (Eds.): Jewish Ethics and the Care of End-of-life Patients, A Collection of Rabbinical, Bioethical, Philosophical, and Juristic Opinions. KTAV, Jersey City 2006, ISBN 0-88125-921-7 , pp. 13-30.
  • Mismor Le David. Rabbinical reflections on the weekly segment. Morascha, Basel 2007, ISBN 978-3-906954-19-6 .
  • René Pahud de Mortanges, Petra Bleisch Bouzar, David Bollag, Christian R. Tappenbeck: Religionsrecht. An introduction to Jewish, Christian and Islamic law. Schulthess, Zurich 2010, ISBN 978-3-7255-7849-8 .
  • The mourning kaddish . Morascha publishing house, Basel 2011.
  • Jehoshua Ahrens, Karl-Hermann Blickle, David Bollag, Johannes Heil (eds.): Towards a partnership between Jews and Christians. The Declaration of Orthodox Rabbis on Christianity. Metropol, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-86331-331-9 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ד"ר קרוליין פייזר-בולג. Women's Beit Midrash of Efrat and Gush Etzion, accessed on August 13, 2018 (Hebrew, spelling of the name David Bollag in Hebrew.): "היא ובעלה, דוד, משמשים רתב וריי י בזזה זמיי קי בז וריי "באפרת."
  2. ↑ Daily register no. 32042 / CHE-107.842.383 / 02375331. In: shab.ch of September 11, 2015. (PDF)
  3. ↑ a b Rebeca Kupatova: Synagogue more inclusive. In: Jewish Independent. June 4, 2016, accessed August 10, 2018 .
  4. ^ Jewish / Roman Catholic Discussion Commission of Switzerland. Retrieved August 10, 2018 .
  5. ^ Evangelical-Jewish Discussion Commission EJGK. In: Swiss Evangelical Church Federation. Retrieved August 10, 2018 .
  6. ^ Symposium on Jewish-Catholic Relations. In: The Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies. Retrieved August 10, 2018 .
  7. ^ Program Münster 2018. In: Deutscher Katholikentag. P. 189 , accessed on August 10, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Eduard Kopp: Katholikentag 2018 in Münster: the topic of religious tolerance "The religions have a hooligan problem". In: chrismon.de. May 11, 2018, accessed August 10, 2018 .
  9. ↑ David Bollag: Are we now "the faithless Jews" again? In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung. July 19, 2018, accessed August 10, 2018 .
  10. ↑ Dogmatist: Benedict XVI. continues anti-Judaism. In: kathisch.de. July 24, 2018, accessed August 10, 2018 .
  11. ↑ Benedict XVI. unsettles Christians and Jews with thoughtless "remarks". In: kath.ch. Retrieved August 13, 2018 .
  12. ^ Söding defends Ratzinger's theology of Judaism. In: kathisch.de. Retrieved on August 13, 2018 : "Representatives of Judaism such as the Potsdam Rabbi Walter Homolka and the Swiss Judaist David Bollag fear that the text will lay a new basis for mission to the Jews and Christian anti-Judaism."
  13. ↑ Benedict XVI. irritates Judaism. In: The furrow . July 26, 2018, accessed August 13, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Bollag, David
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss rabbi
DATE OF BIRTH 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Basel