Event: Relationships and Commitments: Land Beyond Ownership
DATE: MAR 16, 2026
TIME: 1:00 PM – 2:15 PM
SPONSOR: MILSTEIN CENTER FOR INTERRELIGIOUS DIALOGUE
LOCATION: ONLINE
RELATIONSHIPS AND COMMITMENTS: LAND BEYOND OWNERSHIP
Part of Our Winter/Spring 2026 Learning Series, Seasons of Responsibility: Interreligious Conversations on Environmental Justice and Repair
With Hussein Rashid, PhD, Founder, islamicate, and Rabbi Gordon Tucker, Vice Chancellor for Religious Life and Engagement, JTS
There are ways to exist in harmony with all of creation that cultivate the soul and a relationship with the Divine. Hussein Rashid and Gordon Tucker bring Muslim and Jewish texts into dialogue to explore how religious traditions resist transactional relationships with the earth and with one another. Drawing on the sabbatical vision from Leviticus and a Muslim sources on overtaxation, they reflect on restraint, renewal, and the dangers of extraction. Timed with converging sacred moments—the beginning of the Jewish calendar, Persian New Year, and the close of Ramadan—this session offers a shared language for ethical living in a fragile world.
Monday, March 16, 2026
Online
1:00–2:15 p.m. ET
Register here.
ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
Hussein Rashid, PhD, is a free range academic, currently affiliated with Union Theological Seminary. He is a board member of the Interfaith Center of New York. He specializes in working on Muslims in US popular culture and Shi’i theologies of justice. He has served in various academic and culturally creative capacities, most recently as Project Director of The Arts of Devotion at the Smithsonian’s National Muslim of Asian Art. He has taught at Virginia Theological Seminary and Reconstructionist Rabbinical College. He is also a producer of the PBS Digital Series American Muslim Stories and of the award-winning New York Times op-doc The Secret of Muslims in the US.
Gordon Tucker headshot
As vice chancellor for Religious Life and Engagement, Rabbi Gordon Tucker focuses on enhancing Jewish life at JTS, enriching our study of Judaism with the joy and deep understanding that only lived experience can provide. A leading scholar and interpreter of Conservative Judaism, he also articulates the enduring power of JTS’s compelling approach to Jewish law and Jewish life, while strengthening JTS’s religious leadership through partnerships with organizations in the Conservative Movement and beyond.
ABOUT THE SERIES
Across Jewish, Christian, Muslim, and Hindu traditions, spring is a season of reflection, renewal, and ethical commitment. Grounded in holidays from Tu Bishvat and Lent to Ramadan, Holi, and Passover, this interreligious series explores responsibility, repair, and leadership in the face of urgent ecological challenges. Together, participants consider how religious wisdom can inspire ethical action and collective hope.