Tanenbaum Center for Interreligious Understanding

See schedule otanenbaum's education program builds behaviors of respect for difference, including religious difference, in students and fosters their social and emotional growth through collaboration with educational institutions. We provide teachers and education professionals with innovative resources including curricula, lesson plans, and holiday planning guides for celebrating diversity in all its forms within the classroom. We also train school communities in our curricula and pedagogy through webinars and train the trainer sessions. In 2023, we published our new curriculum, transforming conflict, and trained almost 200 teachers in the new york city public school system on respecting religious differences and conflict resolution. Tanenbaum's education advisory board expanded to 13 teachers and reaches over 1,200 students in new york city, metro detroit, ann arbor, houston, raleigh, seattle, atlanta, hudson, oh, and newton, nj. The workplace program engages business leaders, global employers, managers, and dei and human resources professionals to counter harassment and discrimination and build religiously inclusive workplaces. Through trainings and materials on how to effectively work with a global and increasingly religiously diverse workforce and customer base, companies improve the bottom line and become more productive and inclusive environments. In 2023, we hosted our 7th annual and first hybrid religious diversity leadership summit "unlocking the power of difference." We had over 140 in-person registrants and over 600 virtual registrants. We also held an executive-level briefing with 86 virtual attendees and 15 in-person attendees. The workplace team and leadership conducted almost 50 trainings reaching almost 9000 people.the health care program builds health care providers' capacity for offering religiously competent health care and thereby preventing disparities in treatment. Tanenbaum invests in the future of health care with targeted trainings, e-learning and by disseminating curriculum to medical schools, residency programs, and nursing schools to prepare the next generation of medical providers for an increasingly religiously diverse patient population. In 2023, our membership program grew three-fold. We presented 7 trainings to two hospital centers and one corporation. We also presented at the planetree conference on patient centered care on 'lgbtq+ youth health care: the role of religion'. In total, we reached over 250 health care professionals.the peacebuilding program identifies and coordinates a network of religiously motivated peacemakers worldwide, who support and cooperate with each other to counter violence and war. Tanenbaum also studies and documents their work through publications so that their specialized techniques can be shared and replicated by others. This year, Tanenbaum partnered with aurora humanitarian initiative to co-host a webinar about the religious dimensions of humanitarian work. We also presented at manhattan college event in partnership with holocaust, genocide, and interfaith education Center about the peacemakers in action podcast and yehezkel landau's peacebuilding tools and techniques. Over the long-term, this program is advancing the recognition and institutionalization of the vocation of religious peacemaking. Interreligious affairs informs our programs (workplace, health care, education, and peacebuilding) by furthering the work of our namesake, rabbi marc h. Tanenbaum to build a safer, more equitable world for people of all belief systems. Today, rabbi Tanenbaum's longtime scholarly partner, dr. judith banki continues the research, analysis and dialogue that was such an important part of rabbi Tanenbaum's legacy.