This is the 3rd conversation in this fall’s Interfaith Dialogue series.  Rabbi Morgen will welcome historian and scholar Ajit Giani of the Baha’i faith.  The Baha'i faith believes that Gd has sent a series of divine educators - including Abraham, Krishna, Zoroaster, Moses, Buddha, Jesus, and Mohammed – and that the latest messenger, Baha’u’llah, teaches us that all of the religions of the world come from the same source and are successive and progressive chapters in Gd’s revelation.  Join us to learn more and to find out why more than a million people of the Baha'i faith visit the terraces and gardens on Mount Carmel in Haifa, Israel. 

Open to the community!  We expect participants outside of Beth Yeshurun, so we ask you to register directly in Zoom.  

More about Ajit Giani:

Ajit served as a board member of Interfaith Ministries (www.imgh.org), for 9 years (2006-2015) and as chair the refugess services committee. He was secretary of IM’s board for 6 years.  He worked to raise funds for IM, presenting the case for supporting our MOW programs to churches and synagogues and several times to the United Way. He represented the Interfaith Relations department at various functions and events around Houston.

In the past he has served on the Council of Congregations for SEARCH, various committee of the Rothko Chapel, and on Mayor Bill White’s committee for assisting wounded veterans of foreign wars.  He has participated in the Clergy Leadership Council of the ADL and has served as a docent at the Holocaust Museum Houston. He served on the Interfaith Thanksgiving Committee for 27 years. This service was held at the Rothko Chapel every year.

Ajit served at the Baha’i World Center in Haifa, Israel for 6 months in 2006.

Ajit Giani was a member of the Houston Baha’i Community for 36 years (1980-2016), where He served on the assembly for over 25 years, as secretary of the assembly for 22 years, and its external affairs officer. In the later role he represented the Baha’i Faith in public forums, speaking to 15-20 groups each year (churches, synagogues, schools etc.)

He has spoken at the JCC in Houston (Dan Gordon’s Class), at Beth Yeshurun (Rabbi Morgen’s Youth class) Temple Beth Israel and at the Congregation for Reform Judaism (Steve Gross)

Moved to Austin in 2016 where he serves on the iACT board as secretary and a member of the executive committee. He is a member of the LSA, and the external affairs officer.