A Breakthrough in Jewish-Catholic Relations

A dream was actualized this week as a delegation of young Catholic Priests from Latin American, along with their local Jewish clergy counterparts, completed a Jewish-Christian educational mission in Israel. While in Israel the delegation discovered commonalities between their faiths,

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Speaking out against mosque desecration

Across the world, people were outraged by the news that mosques in Israel had been desecrated and racist graffiti scrawled across their walls. Israeli Jews felt ashamed. We asked ourselves: do the perpetrators have any understanding of Jewish history and

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CJCUC Expands Its Biblical Sessions in Jerusalem

JERUSALEM, ISRAEL – To accommodate the growing requests of Christian groups visiting Israel to learn the Hebrew Scriptures with Orthodox Jewish rabbis, The Center for Jewish-Christian Understanding and Cooperation (CJCUC) in Efrat announced the opening of its new venue in

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CJCUC Appoints Dr. Mike Cohen as its Traveling Scholar

With the mandate to assist and enhance the Center for Jewish-Christian Understanding and Cooperation’s (CJCUC) relations with the Christian communities in North America, Rabbi Shlomo Riskin has appointed Dr. Mike Cohen as the first “CJCUC Traveling Scholar.” Dr. Cohen has

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Benedict’s ‘Jesus’ and the Jews

The second volume of Pope Benedict XVI’s “Jesus of Nazareth” has already created a splash. Even before the book’s release, numerous Jewish leaders lavished effusive praise on Benedict for the volume’s exculpation of the Jews in Jesus’ crucifixion. But is

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CJCUC Will Host Its First International Conference

Ohr Torah Stone’s The Center for Jewish Christian Understanding and Cooperation in Efrat, Israel is pleased to announce that its theological division, the Institute for Theological Inquiry, and the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute will jointly sponsor an International Theology Conference

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