Alon Goshen-Gottstein (Hebrew: אלון גושן גוטשטיין) (born 1956, England) is a scholar of Jewish studies and a theoretician and activist in the domain of interfaith dialogue.
Goshen-Gottstein headed the Institute for the Study of Rabbinic, taught at Bet Morasha College, Jerusalem, from 1997 till 2013, and oversaw conferences and publications in the field.
Here, he engaged with contemporary existential issues and became versed in public interfaith conversations, for which he was in charge for several years on behalf of the Hartman Institute.
He has shared in the spiritual lives of Christian and Hindu communities and enjoyed the friendship, wisdom, and counsel of teachers from the Buddhist and Muslim traditions.
[citation needed] His personal experience led him to found in 1997 the Elijah Interfaith Institute, initially as a consortium of 13 Jerusalem-based academic theological schools.
[3] Goshen-Gottstein's personal foundations in the field of religious leadership and academic training equipped him to moderate processes of learning and broader public engagement, involving leaders and scholars.