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Asma T. Uddin: Now Is the Time for New Interfaith Connections Illustration via Getty Images. Over the past few decades, the religious landscape of America has transformed in ways we couldn’t ...
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.
The ideological groundwork, which led to the eventual establishment of CJCUC in 2008, began to take shape almost 50 years beforehand. In 1964, Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik, the teacher and mentor of CJCUC's Chancellor and Founder, Shlomo Riskin, published an essay entitled "Confrontation" [3] in which he expounded his views on interfaith dialogue and carefully drew out guidelines which ...
Anglican, Free church and Roman Catholic Churches came together in 1938 to form a Christian Council for Refugees following the passing of the Nuremberg Decrees. [7] The council's secretary was W. W. Simpson, a Methodist minister, who would dedicate his life to the improvement of Christian-Jewish relations.
CHICAGO - Christian and Jewish leaders gathered Saturday on Chicago’s Near North Side, raising alarms over a recent surge in antisemitic incidents.. The summit on opposing antisemitism was held ...
The MICAH coalition, which has been organizing social justice campaigns for 36 years in Milwaukee, represents 42 congregations, including Christian, Muslim, Jewish, Unitarian, Buddhist, Quaker and ...
The most famous alumnus of the Angelicum is Karol Wojtyła – Pope John Paul II – who earned a doctorate of philosophy there in the late 1940s.. As a child, Karol Wojtyla forged close relationships with Jewish families in his Polish hometown, witnessed first hand the horrors of the Second World War and Soviet communism, and was deeply influenced in his studies by Jewish philosophers Martin ...
The Christian Scholars Group on Christian–Jewish Relations is a group of 22 Christian scholars, theologians, historians and clergy from six Christian Protestant denominations and the Roman Catholic Church, which works to "develop more adequate Christian theologies of the church's relationship to Judaism and the Jewish people." [15] [16] [17]