Meetings in Heppenheim and Cracow
The ICCJ Executive Board met in Heppenheim, Germany, January 9-11. The 2011 Cracow Planning Committee had a successful meeting the next day at the Jagiellonian University in Cracow, Poland.
Challenging Trilateral Consultation
Berlin - Co-hosted by the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, the ICCJ held a Jewish-Christian-Muslim consultation in Berlin this week. Aim of the consultation was to lay the foundations of the ICCJ Abrahamic Forum, the renewal of which had been decided by the Executive Board last summer in Istanbul.
New Website is online!
It is our pleasure to announce the launch of a totally restyled ICCJ website. The new ICCJ website will enable us to communicate more frequently and in many different ways with all those interested in worldwide Jewish-Christian and Jewish-Christian-Muslim dialogue.
Baltic-Nordic-British conference
We want to come back next year - to have a follow-up of this meeting and to see what we have achieved in our own settings! all the participants in the conference on "A Time for Recommitment" in Sigtuna, Sweden, in October said.
Conference in Chicago, 14 - 16 November 2010
From November 14 to 16, 2010, Catholic Theological Union in Chicago welcomed over forty Catholic, Protestant and Jewish participants to an in-depth discussion of the points of the 2009 ICCJ Berlin document as well as how the Jewish and Christian communities might continue to build a constructive relationship based on these points.
Congratulations for the Rescue of the Chilean Miners
A Letter from the President Deborah Weissman To Rabbi Samuel Szteinhendler, President of the Chilean Council of Christians and Jews
Israel Seminar
Dear Friends,
I'm writing to you from Jerusalem, where we have been experiencing our hottest summer on record. I recently had the pleasure of being in delightfully cool Dublin for our Youth Leadership Council meeting. One evening, I met with some of the active members of the Irish CCJ. They were most gracious to me and helpful during my stay.ICCJ Pleads "Let Us Have Mercy upon Words" When Discussing Middle East
26 July 2010 ‐ Heppenheim, Germany ‐ The Executive Board of the International Council of Christians and Jews issued a statement today expressing alarm over an "increasing polarization in the discourse between Jews and Christians and also within each community," when it comes to the Israeli‐Palestinian conflict. Based on reports from ICCJ members around the world, "extreme viewpoints seem to be increasing in popularity, while efforts toward moderation or compromise are rejected as disloyal or naive."
Goodbye to Cardinal Casper - Welcome to Archbishop Koch
The International Council of Christians and Jews (ICCJ) wishes to thank Cardinal Walter Kasper for his eleven years of dedicated service as President of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity and the Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews.
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