Rabbi David Fox Sandmel, PhD is an independent scholar specializing in interreligious/interfaith relations and is chair emeritus of the International Jewish Committee for Interreligious Consultations, the consortium that is the official Jewish dialogue partner of the Vatican. He served for seven years as director of Interreligious Engagement at the Anti-Defamation League; held the Crown-Ryan Chair of Jewish Studies at the Catholic Theological Union in Chicago; and was the Jewish Scholar at the Institute for Christian & Jewish Studies in Baltimore. While working in Baltimore, he directed the publication of “Dabru Emet: A Jewish Statement on Christians and Christianity.”  Rabbi Sandmel presently resides in Portland and is currently serving as Scholar in Residence at the Maine Jewish Museum.  He was a visiting professor at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome this spring.