Eugene Korn


Rabbi Doctor Eugene B. Korn is a lecturer, scholar and educator. He lives in Jerusalem and was formerly Academic Director of the Center for Jewish-Christian Understanding and Cooperation in Jerusalem. He was also co-director of its Institute for Theological Inquiry. Korn was the founding editor of Meorot: A Forum for Modern Orthodox Discourse, based at Yeshivat Chovevei Torah in New York City.
In 2003 he was ordained as an Orthodox rabbi by Machon Pirchei Shoshanim. He graduated with a bachelor's degree from Yeshiva University where he majored in philosophy and mathematics, and was awarded a Ph.D. in Moral Philosophy from Columbia University.
In 2003-2005 he was Director of Interfaith Affairs for the Anti-Defamation League.
His research interests include Jewish-Christian relations, Jewish ethics and Jewish Law, Israel, and Philosophy.
In 2009, he was honored by the Catholic-Jewish Commission of Southern New Jersey and the Jewish Community Relations Council with the "Nostra Aetate Award".
In December 2015, Korn helped draft the Orthodox Rabbinic Statement on Christianity entitled "To Do the Will of Our Father in Heaven: Toward a Partnership between Jews and Christians".
His most recent books are "To Be a Holy People: Jewish Tradition and Ethical Values" and "Israel and the Nations: The Bible, The Rabbis, and Jewish-Gentile Relations". His writings has been translated into Hebrew, Italian, German and Spanish.

Works

  • "Israel and the Nations: The Bible, the Rabbis, and Jewish-Gentile Relations"
  • "Two Faiths, One Covenant?"
  • "End of Exile--Israel, the Jews, and the Gentile World, by James Parkes"
  • "The Jewish Connection to Israel, the Promised Land: A Brief Introduction for Christians"
  • "Jewish Theology and World Religions"
  • "To Be a Holy People: Jewish Tradition and Ethical Values"
  • "Rethinking Christianity: Rabbinic Positions and Possibilities" in "Jewish Theology and World Religions"
  • "Covenant and Hope--Christian and Jewish Reflections"
  • "Christianity in the Eyes of Judaism"
  • "Plowshares into Swords? Reflections on Religion and Violence"
  • "RETURNING TO ZION: CHRISTIAN AND JEWISH PERSPECTIVES"
  • "FROM CONFRONTATION TO COVENANTAL PARTNERSHIP" Edah Journal 5:2 2006Tradition 31, 2, 5-30
  • "Extra Synagogum Nulla Salus?" in "Religious Perspectives on Religious Diversity"
  • "The Name of God is Peace" in "Violence in Civil Society: Monotheism Guilty?"
  • "Idolatry and the Covenantal Pluralism of Irving Greenberg" in "A Torah Giant: The Intellectual Legacy of Rabbi Dr. Irving Greenberg
  • "The Covenant and its Theology" in 'Meorot 9
  • "Israel as Blessing" in "Judaism's Challenge: Election, Divine Love and Human Enmity"
  • "How Like a God" in "Hokhma Lishlomo: Essays in Honor of Rabbi Dr. Shlomo Riskin"
  • "The Man of Faith and Religious Dialogue: Revisiting Confrontation" in Modern Judaism
  • "The Open Torah of Maimonides," in "Black Fire on White Fire"