{"id":6684,"date":"2016-02-05T22:20:51","date_gmt":"2016-02-05T22:20:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/?p=6684"},"modified":"2020-02-07T20:59:33","modified_gmt":"2020-02-07T20:59:33","slug":"julian-kritz-jerusalem-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/2016\/02\/05\/julian-kritz-jerusalem-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Julian Kritz &#8217;16 recounts international interfaith experience in article published by the Jerusalem Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2016\/02\/Jerusalem-Post-Logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-6685\" src=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2016\/02\/Jerusalem-Post-Logo-300x45.png\" alt=\"Jerusalem Post - Logo\" width=\"300\" height=\"45\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2016\/02\/Jerusalem-Post-Logo-300x45.png 300w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2016\/02\/Jerusalem-Post-Logo.png 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The Jerusalem Post website recently published an article by<strong> Julian Kritz &#8217;16<\/strong>, Interfaith Scholar and vice president of Students Supporting Israel at Augsburg College. In the piece, Kritz discussed his experience traveling to Israel with a diverse delegation of Minnesota legislators and community leaders.<\/p>\n<p>He\u00a0remembered the diversity of the group &#8212; which was bipartisan, interfaith and intergenerational &#8212; as being particularly impactful as they toured sites of importance to Christians, Jews, and Muslims.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As a Jew, seeing Israel through the eyes of the Christian members of our delegation was a moving experience which greatly added to my understanding of why so many people care about this small piece of land,&#8221; he explained.<\/p>\n<p>Kritz was selected for the trip due to his work as an intern with the Jewish Community Relations Council of Minnesota and the Dakotas (JCRC) and his travel was\u00a0sponsored by\u00a0a grant from the Minneapolis Jewish Federation. The JCRC was asked to plan the trip, which included\u00a0meetings with key figures in Israeli and Palestinian politics and tours of religious sites, centers of business, and locations of political importance.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Jerusalem Post website recently published an article by Julian Kritz &#8217;16, Interfaith Scholar and vice president of Students Supporting Israel at Augsburg College. In the piece, Kritz discussed his experience traveling to Israel with a diverse delegation of Minnesota legislators and community leaders. He\u00a0remembered the diversity of the group &#8212; which was bipartisan, interfaith &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":263,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8],"tags":[1383,1406,3788,1952,3789,2961],"class_list":["post-6684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news","category-students","tag-interfaith-scholar","tag-internship","tag-julian-kritz","tag-minnesota-politics","tag-students-supporting-israel","tag-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/263"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6684"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9704,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6684\/revisions\/9704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}