Dear Friends: I hope that all of you in the Northern Hemisphere have had a pleasant summer, and in the Southern Hemisphere, a pleasant winter. In 2014, with our annual international conference planned for Buenos Aires, we will all experience winter in August. But I have been to Argentina in August before, and it’s really quite mild.

ICCJ Board member Revd David Gifford responds to a book written by Dr. Mark Braverman, in which Braverman argues that Christians involved in dialogue with Jews, on the Palestine issue, have sold out to an agenda of injustice. Gifford states that dialogue, however painful it may be, remains the way to go. Here is Gifford’s letter to the Huffington Post.

All plenary sessions held during the 2013 ICCJ Aix en Provence conference were recorded on video. You may relive all the excellent meetings we had and hear and see the eleven key note speakers.

A week ago the excellent 2013 Aix en Provence ICCJ conference on “Secularity/Laïcité” ended. Our untiring French colleague Rosine Voisin wrote the following short report. As soon as possible more texts will be published on ICCJ’s homepage.

Outgoing ICCJ General Secretary Rev Dick Pruiksma has last week been awarded with the ICCJ gold medallion “Peace through Dialogue”, initiated by ICCJ's Patron Sir Sigmund Sternberg. The awarding ceremony took place during the festive dinner concluding ICCJ’s 2013 Aix en Provence conference.

In just a few weeks the opening session of the 2013 ICCJ conference in Aix en Provence will take place. In many ways, the upcoming conference now already is a success.