RICK SOPHER is a key figure in interfaith scriptural dialogue, and is especially known for fostering relations between Jewish and Muslim communities. He is a fellow of the Woolf Institute, an academic institute in Cambridge, England, dedicated to the study of interfaith relations between Jews, Christians, and Muslims. In 2007, President Jacques Chirac awarded Sopher France’s Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur for his work in religious education. Illuminating Scriptural Connections: A Qur’anic Commentary on the Torah (The Jewish Publication Society) is his latest book.
