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Unfulfilled Promise. Pope Francis and the Israel-Hamas war
Pope Francis has called for an investigation to determine if Israel’s operation in Gaza constitutes genocide, according to a new book published for…
Read moreSuffering and Hope
Reflections in a Time of Wars, Enmities, and Seasons of Festivals of Light offered by members of ICCJ's Theology Committee.
Read morePost-Holocaust Theology. An overview
The Shoah (Holocaust) has raised a number of questions to which Jewish philosophers, theologians, and historians have given different answers. This…
Read moreChristmas Message – 2024
Statement for the Patriarchs and Heads of the Churches in Jerusalem.
Read moreNew Glossary Breaks Ground in Tackling Antisemitism Through a Catholic Lens
December 11, 2024. The American Jewish Committee (AJC), in partnership with the United States Conference of Catholic Bishophs' (USCCB) Committee on…
Read moreSuffering and Hope
Reflections in a Time of Wars, Enmities, and Seasons of Festivals of Light offered by members of ICCJ's Theology Committee.
Read moreChristmas Message – 2024
Statement for the Patriarchs and Heads of the Churches in Jerusalem.
Read moreUnfulfilled Promise. Pope Francis and the Israel-Hamas war
Pope Francis has called for an investigation to determine if Israel’s operation in Gaza constitutes genocide, according to a new book published for…
Read moreHow the state of Israel became ‘the Jew’ writ large
It has long been well-known that interest in Israel and its conflict with Palestinians and with Arabs and Muslims in the region is extremely high and…
Read moreOnkelos and the Tree(s)
In his Guide of the Perplexed I:27, Rambam (Moses Maimonides, 1138-1204) wrote:
Read moreOnkelos the Proselyte was highly adept in Syriac and Hebrew. He made…
JEWS AND CHRISTIANS. From Past to Future
It is with great pleasure that JCR announces that the book "Jews and Christians. From Past to Future" by the well known Catholic monk and Israeli…
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Book Reviews |
Paul J. Griffiths:
Israel: A Christian Grammar.
Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2023
soft cover, xvii+242pp., $ 20,-
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Shalom Auslander:
Feh. A Memoir
Riverhead Books: New York 2024;
Hardcover, 368 Pages; $29.00
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Azzan Yadin-Israel:
Temptation Transformed. The Story of How the Forbidden Fruit Became an Apple
University of Chicago Press: 2022
232 Pages; $27.50
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Murray Watson:
Restoring the Gospels’ Jewish Voice. André Chouraqui and the Intersection of Biblical Translation and Interfaith Dialogue
New York and…
Catholics and Jews discuss Ten Commandments in Rome
2024, November 8 - The Pontifical University of the Holy Cross holds a multi-day course dedicated to the Christian and Jewish perspectives on the Ten…
Read more“Jews and Christians. From Past to Future”: First publication of Yohanan Elihai’s book in English
It is with great pleasure that the JCR announces that the book "Jews and Christians. From Past to Future" by the well known Catholic monk and Israeli…
Read more‘Let us continue to be builders of peace, tireless in our commitment to reconciliation and fraternity’.
24.09.2024 - The closing ceremony of the event ‘’Imagine Peace‘’ was held in the historic square of Notre Dame, a gathering that brought together…
Read moreICCJ Welcomes a new President and Executive Board
02.07.2024 - At their 70th Annual General Meeting [AGM] the ICCJ member organizations elected a new Executive Board for a tenure of three years.…
Read moreThis war is also a turning point in interreligious dialog
Statement by Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa OFM, Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, at the press conference ‘A conflagration in the Middle East: On the…
Read moreRabbi David Meyer: 'October 7 revealed Jews' great solitude'
Franco-Israeli Rabbi and author David Meyer, a leading figure of the liberal Jewish movement in France, shares his reflections with Vatican News on…
Read moreThe very name of God is peace
Speech by Andrea Riccardi, historian and founder of the Community of Sant'Egidio, at the opening session of the international meeting ‘Imagining…
Read more"Reconciliation is not an event; it is a process taking generations"
Speech by the Archbishop of Canterbury to the International Meeting for Peace, Paris, 22nd September 2024.
Read morePost-Holocaust Theology. An overview
The Shoah (Holocaust) has raised a number of questions to which Jewish philosophers, theologians, and historians have given different answers. This…
Read moreWho wrote the Bible?
The Bible tells an overall story about the history of the world: creation, fall, redemption and God’s Last Judgement of the living and the dead.
Read moreBroken Roots. What Happens When We Don’t Know Jesus’s Jewish Context
On the 16th of October, the Patriarch of Jerusalem, the highest-ranking Catholic Church clergyman in the Israel region, made an offer that shocked the…
Read moreHope for the Future - A Study Document for Renewing Jewish-Christian Relations
This study document is intended as an educational resource and reflection tool to stimulate a renewal of Jewish-Christian relations in the various LWF…
Read moreICCJ-Statement: In Solidarity With Israel
10.10.2023 - A few days ago, on Shabbat morning and on the onset of Simchat Torah which was supposed to be a day of peace and joy, Israel experienced…
Read moreJewish and Catholic Approaches to the terminally ill: The Prohibited, the Permitted and the Obligatory
12.05.2023 - Joint Statement of the 17th Bilateral Commission of the Delegations of the Chief Rabbinate of Israel and the Holy See’s Commission for…
Read moreA National Reckoning of the Soul
A Call to the Churches of the United States to Confront the Crisis of Antisemitism
Read moreFight Antisemitism, Protect Jewish Life - Declaration on the 80th Anniversary of the Wannsee Conference
On the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the Wannsee Conference, influential representatives of Protestant churches and Jewish associations from…
Read moreIJCIC repudiates charge of Israeli genocide
November 22, 2024. In light of the recent controversy arising from a comment by Pope Francis recorded in Hernán Reyes Alcaide’s “Hope Never…
Read moreWe extend an invitation to the Church to broaden the dialogue
February 12th, 2024 - Response to the Pope's letter, dated from 2 February 2024.
Read moreAn open letter to His Holiness, Pope Francis, and to the Faithful of the Catholic Church
November 12th, 2023
Read moreTo our fathers in the faith: you are not alone!
Since October 7, in the wake of the Hamas terrorist attacks and hostage-taking, and the subsequent military operations in Gaza, we have witnessed a…
Read moreMy heart is close to you, to the Holy Land, to all the peoples who inhabit it, Israelis and Palestinians
Vatican City, 2 February 2024 - Letter of the Holy Father to Jewish brothers and sisters in Israel.
Read more"Not weapons, not terrorism, not war, but compassion, justice and dialogue are the fitting means for building peace"
Address of His Holiness to a Delegation of the Conference of European Rabbis, 6 November 2023.
Read moreWalking Together: Catholics with Jews in the Australian Context
Launched by the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference, March 2023.
Read moreJews and Christians; becoming friends: A five-week scripture study course
This booklet is a five-week scripture study course. It is based on a course on Christianity and Judaism given alongside Stan Keller, the chairman of…
Read more"Caring for the world between us" - Greetings for the ICCJ 2023 Conference
In her welcome address, Rabbi Anisfeld hoped that the ICCJ 2023 Conference would inspire us to renew our commitment to caring for the "world between…
Read moreUnderstanding Jesus means understanding Judaism
In 2021, the Deutsche Bibel Gesellschaft published Das Neue Testament - jüdisch Erklärt,[1] the German translation of The Jewish Annotated New…
Read more‘They Beheld God, and They Ate and Drank’
A Theological Reflection on Exodus 24:11 from the Perspective of the Dialogue between Judaism and Christianity.
Read moreSeeking Abraham’s God after October 7th: From Radical Antisemitism to Relational Dialogue
Abraham, the common spiritual ancestor of Jews, Christians, and Muslims, was called by God to be a blessing, not to conquer or convert (Gen. 12:1–2)[1…
Read moreThe Judensau: Remembering a Grotesque Anti-Jewish Image
Judensau translates as, Jewish sow. Its German medieval origins are complex; its history long (extending well into the twentieth century, and well…
Read moreAntisemitism: A view from within the Rabbinic Legal Tradition
Anti-semitism and Palestine
David Neuhaus, S.J., Professor of Scripture in Israel and Palestine, is a long-term member of the Holy Land Catholic Church's Justice and Peace…
Read moreAppeal for Peace
This appeal for peace was presented by children to religious leaders at the closing session of the international meeting ‘Imagining Peace’ organised…
Read moreThe elderly in contemporary society and their protection
Declaration of the Abrahamic Religions, Buenos Aires, Monday, August 28, 2023.
Read moreNo one is saved alone
Final communique at the International Meeting of Prayer for Peace between the large world religions, October 20, 2020, Rome.
Read moreUrgent Action Needed to Prevent COVID-19
March 25th, 2020. The COVID-19 virus presents the entire world with a series of humanitarian, financial, social and political challenges, which do not…
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