A few weeks ago members of the Young Leadership Council board met in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to work on the details for our upcoming YLC conference in Uruguay. The conference will be take place in Centro Emmanuel, a Christian retreat center in Colonia Valdense, not far from the 2014 ICCJ conference in Buenos Aires.

New articles are available on JCRelations.net: July contributions in English, German, Spanish and Russian are online.

Tuesday, August 19, will be the official opening of the 2014 ICCJ conference to be held in Buenos Aires. Theme of the conference: Jewish-Christian Dialogue: Commitment and Challenges - Latin American and International Experiences and Perspectives. Registration for the conference will close end of this month.

The International Council of Christians and Jews expresses its dismay at a series of events that have occurred recently in Europe. The most frightening of these was the fatal shooting of four people at the Brussels Jewish Museum. These terrible events are a source of anxiety for Jewish communities, with whom we express our solidarity.

For a second time Jews and Christians, among them our President Dr Deborah Weissman, the ICCJ General Secretary Anette Adelmann, and her predecessor Revd Dick Pruiksma, met in Jerusalem for a workshop organized by the German "Evangelische Kirche im Rheinland" (EKiR) and the "Evangelical Lutheran Church in Jordan and the Holy Land" (ELCJHL).

Together with our Patron, Sir Sigmund Sternberg, the ICCJ mourns the passing of his beloved wife, Lady Hazel Sternberg.