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North Suburban Synagogue Beth El is a Conservative Jewish congregation and synagogue, located on a 6.5-acre (2.6 ha) campus overlooking Lake Michigan at 1175 Sheridan Road in Highland Park, a northern suburb of Chicago, Illinois, in the United States.
In 1983, he established the Holyland Fellowship of Christians and Jews to promote Jewish-Christian cooperation on projects for improving the safety and security of Jews in Israel and around the world. [1] [4] On September 1, 1991, the organization was renamed the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews. [5] [6]
An interreligious organization or interfaith organization is an organization that encourages dialogue and cooperation between the world's different religions.In 1893, the Parliament of the Worlds Religions held, in conjunction with the World Colombian Exposition, a conference held in Chicago that is believed to be the first interfaith gathering of notable significance.
Community Relations—Through its support of the Jewish Community Relations Council (JCRC), [7] JUF coordinates the collective policies and programs among 46 constituent Chicago-area Jewish organizations active in public affairs/community relations work. JCRC educates and mobilizes the Jewish community for action through JUF and those ...
The International Council of Christians and Jews (ICCJ) is an umbrella organization of 38 national groups in 32 countries worldwide engaged in the Christian-Jewish dialogue. [1] Founded as a reaction to the Holocaust, many groups of theologians, historians and educators dedicated their efforts to seek Christian–Jewish reconciliation.
In the 1950s and 60s, as interfaith civic partnerships between Jews and Christians in the United States became more numerous, especially in the suburbs, [citation needed] the Union of American Hebrew Congregations (now the Union for Reform Judaism, URJ) created a department mainly to promote positive Christian-Jewish relations and civic ...
Pages in category "Jewish organizations based in the United States" The following 109 pages are in this category, out of 109 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Like these national organizations, JCRCs focused primarily on combatting antisemitism. [12] In 1944, the National Community Relations Advisory Council (later renamed the Jewish Council for Public Affairs (JCPA) was formed as an umbrella organization of 14 local JCRCs, the ADL, the two AJCs, and the Jewish Labor Committee, in the United States.