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Accessibility Adjustments

Accessibility Adjustments Help

  • Toggle High Contrast

    This button will darken the page's background color to black while making all text white. This high contrast will make it easier to read the website's content.

  • Toggle Page Zoom

    This button will increase the size of all elements on the page.

  • Toggle Focus State

    This button adds a visible focus state to all interactive elements when using the keyboard. This allows the user to know exactly where they are on a site while tabbing through with a keyboard. Note: this will only affect sites that do not currently have visible focus states.

  • Toggle Link Highlights

    This button will add an outline to all links and buttons on a page that a user can interact with.

Accessibility Checker Help

  • Check Images

    This triggers a check of all images on a page for either an 'alt', 'title', or an 'aria-label' attribute. Images that are purely decorative or do not include any information to convey to the user do not need alt text. In these cases, the alt attribute should still be present but should be left empty. Our checker will still flag empty alts as an error just in case.

  • Check Color Contrast

    This triggers a check of all text to ensure that it's color has a high enough contrast against the color of the background it is on. In some cases our checker will flag contrast errors for text that is on top of an image or when either the text or the background element has a position of 'absolute'. In these cases it is up to the site administrator's discretion to determine if the text is legible.

  • Check Links & Buttons

    This triggers a check of all the page's links and buttons. Links and buttons without text or an aria-label describing what the link or button accomplishes will fail. Without text (including hidden screen reader only text) or an aria-label, assistive technology will not be able to determine the purpose of the link/button.

  • Check For Duplicate IDs

    This triggers a search for all IDs on a page. Duplicate IDs will be flagged as an error. Duplicate ID errors are known to cause problems for assistive technologies when they are trying to interact with content. SVGs tend to be a major source of this failure. It's beneficial to remove all IDs from SVGs before placing them on a page.

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For Religious Leaders in Training

The Emerging Religious Leaders Intensive

The Emerging Religious Leaders Intensive (ERLI) is a week-long residential immersion experience in interreligious learning and dialogue for Christian, Jewish, and Muslim students training for leadership roles.

ERLI fills a key gap in seminary education as few institutions offer such in-depth interreligious experiences. The program schedule ​​is filled with full days of discussion and study, interreligious experiences (e.g., prayer or worship services), and informal conversations over meals and recreation. The interreligious ERLI faculty includes ICJS scholars, as well as representatives from partner institutions.

ERLI 2024 will be held June 2–6 at the Pearlstone Retreat Center in Reisterstown, Md. For more information or to register, contact your school’s ERLI coordinator or email info@icjs.org.

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ICJS is an Associate Member of The Association of Theological Schools in the United States and Canada (ATS), but not an Accredited Member with the ATS Commission on Accrediting.
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What is ERLI?

Testimonials from ERLI participants and leaders

It’s not always easy to come to places where you’re not sure if you’re going to be targeted. There was a great deal of effort in this organization to really create safe spaces for everyone.

Hafsa Abdul-Hakeem

Rabata

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I’m someone who believes in God, so being able to talk about God with other people feels easy, actually. It feels like a way in. And then when we start to unpack the differences in our different faith backgrounds and our different approaches to our faith practices, it feels like it’s in relationship, so it’s easier to talk about the difficult pieces.

Noah Dor Lind

Reconstructionist Rabbinical College

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There’s a beauty to sitting with people who are different from you, that you don’t know, who come from a different faith tradition.

David Palmieri

Catholic University of America

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When we are open to people’s own interpretations and experiences, we’re better able to serve God and serve humanity.

Rashad AbdulAzeem

Baltimore International College

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Attending [an Episcopalian] service and seeing in English the exact words that I say in my daily prayer was deeply moving.

Karolyn Benger

Yeshivat Maharat

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 I think something like this could not be done in a classroom setting. An interfaith group like this is priceless.

Maximilian Muenke

The Catholic University of America

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