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    UK Board of Deputies questions ICCJ comments on EAPPI

    A few weeks ago ICCJ published a Rosh haShana letter written by ICCJ President Dr. Deborah Weissman. In this letter she referred to the debate going on in the United Kingdom about the EAPPI program of the World Council of Churches. The Ecumenical Accompaniment Program in Palestine and Israel enables Christians to live for a few months on the West Bank experiencing live under occupation. “When they return home, Ecumenical Accompaniers campaign for a just and peaceful resolution to the Israeli/Palestinian conflict through an end to the occupation, respect for international law and implementation of UN resolutions.” (Quote from EAPPI-website)


  • ICCJ visit Budapest

    On Wednesday and Thursday, November 28–29, a delegation of the International Council of Christians and Jews will visit the Hungarian capital Budapest. For quite some time troublesome news is coming from Hungary. As a result of a more nationalist turn Hungarian politics have taken, reports on xenophobic and anti-Semitic incidents have reached us.


  • Letter from Prague

    Members of the Board of the Czech CCJ, wrote a letter to the Human Rights Commissioner of the Government of the Czech Republic recently. The letter asks for her support for immigrants coming to the Czech Republic from countries where they are persecuted also because of their faith, among other things. Read the letter ....


  • French CCJ awards Sisters of Sion

    PARIS - Two Sisters of Sion, Sr. Louise-Marie Niesz and Sr. Dominique de la Maisonneuve, received this evening the annual award of the French ICCJ member organization, the Amitié Judéo-Chrétienne de France. The ceremony was held in the beautiful “Collège des Bernardins” in Paris.


  • Jewish-Christian dialogue in Hungary

    The International Council of Christians and Jews noted with growing concern the reports about growing anti-Semitism in Hungary. It was therefore decided to visit our two Hungarian member organizations: the Christian-Jewish Society and the Hungarian Council of Christians and Jews. Dr. József Szécsi, General Secretary of the Society and Board Member of the Council, is very helpful in preparing the visit, which will take place most probably end of November. He wrote a report on the situation in Hungary, the history of both ICCJ members in the country and what they do trying to turn the tide. Excerpts from this report may be found below.


  • Growing intolerance

    Several European cities recently have seen attacks on individuals and buildings, clearly anti-Semitic in character. The General Secretary of the Jewish Central Council in Germany was attacked verbally on Yom Kippur in Berlin. And last week stones were thrown at the Jewish community center in Malmö. Muslim and Christian sites in Israel are very often under attack. The walls of the Latrun Monastery, the Dormitio Abbey and other Christian places were defaced with very offensive “price tag” graffiti.


  • Tools for constructive dialogue

    The ICCJ has long been involved in the discussions that arise when in Jewish-Christian dialogue the problems of the Middle East are discussed. In the "Twelve Points of Berlin" the ICCJ has outlined its starting position: Working together for a just solution.


  • Shana Tova

    Shalom from Jerusalem. I am writing this message on the eve of the Jewish High Holydays and specifically want to wish our Jewish members a happy, healthy, peaceful and sweet New Year.


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    ICCI denounces attack on the Latrun monastery

    In the early hours of the morning on Tuesday, Sept. 4th, 2012, the Trappist monastery in Latrun was vandalized and anti-Christian graffiti were sprayed on the walls. This appears to be again the work of the extremist Jews who call their actions "the price tag."Our Israeli member orgainization has issued the folloiwng press release:


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    In Memoriam Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini

    The ICCJ joins with the rest of the inter-religious dialogue community in mourning the passing of Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini, former Catholic Archbishop of Milan and a long-standing member of the Vatican's Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews.


  • Eid Mubarak

    Dear friends,The International Abrahamic Forum of the ICCJ extends its warm greetings to our Muslim members together with all Muslims around the world on the occasion of Eid ul-Fitr.May Allah accept your fasting, prayers and charity during the holy month of Ramadan and may He continue to bestow his blessings upon youon this Holiday and throughout the coming year. Eid Mubarak!"


  • Letter from the President

    Dear friends:It’s been quite a while since I have written to you. This has been a very hot summer in Israel—I’m referring to the weather. I was glad to get away twice, both times on ICCJ business. The first was late June, early July, when I went to Manchester for our very successful annual conference. I want to thank all those who worked hard for this event. A friend here in Jerusalem has been very jealous of me ever since I told him that our closing dinner was held in the Manchester United football club, Old Trafford. We again congratulate the CCJ of the UK on 70 years of Jewish-Christian dialogue. I then had the opportunity to visit Ireland, where I met, for a second time, with the CCJ in Dublin, and spent the rest of the week travelling around that very beautiful island.