Simone Rizkallah

Simone Rizkallah is the Manager of Jewish-Christian Partnerships at Tikvah. She is also a founding member of the Coalition of Catholics Against Antisemitism (CCAA), now housed at the Institute on Religion and Democracy. 

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An American of Egyptian-Armenian descent, Simone lectures on a broad range of theological, spiritual, and cultural topics, including Jewish-Catholic relations, religious freedom, Christian identity, the feminine genius, and the enduring relevance of the Christian East. Her work is dedicated to renewing America's moral and cultural imagination and strengthening the bonds of friendship between Jews and Christians.

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Her writing and commentary have appeared in First Things, National Catholic Register, America Magazine, Catholic World Report, The Christian Post, EWTN, Catholic Answers, and other outlets. She has also hosted The Endow Podcastand Beyond Rome, a podcast dedicated to reconnecting Catholics to their Hebraic and Near Eastern Christian roots.

 

Simone has served in youth and adult faith formation at St. Ambrose Parish in Annandale, Virginia, and taught moral theology and Church history as Chair of the Theology Department at St. Mary's Catholic High School in Phoenix, Arizona. She also worked for Endow, a Catholic women's apostolate inspired by Pope St. John Paul II. She holds a graduate degree in Theological Studies from Christendom College and has pursued additional studies through the Tertio Millennio Seminar on the Free Society at the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Kraków, Poland; the International Theological Institute through The Phoenix Institute in Trumau, Austria; the St. Albert the Great Center for Scholastic Studies in Norcia, Italy; the Gailliot Fellowship with the Acton Institute in Grand Rapids, Michigan; and the Witherspoon Fellowship through the John Jay Institute in Washington, D.C.

 

She currently serves on the faculty of the Institute of Catholic Theology and the Avila Institute. Her talks, publications, and media appearances can be found at www.simonerizkallah.com.

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