Rabbi Riskin

CJCUC Joins IJCIR as Partner

JERUSALEM, ISRAEL—Ohr Torah Stone’s Center for Jewish-Christian Understanding and Cooperation (CJCUC) in Efrat is pleased to announce that it is now a full partner of

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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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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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CJCUC Joins IJCIR as Partner

JERUSALEM, ISRAEL—Ohr Torah Stone’s Center for Jewish-Christian Understanding and Cooperation (CJCUC) in Efrat is pleased to announce that it is now a full partner of the Israel Jewish Council for Interreligious Relations (IJCIR) in Jerusalem. “I am grateful to IJCIR’s

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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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CJCUC Statement on Christians in Middle East

We, the leaders of The Center for Jewish-Christian Understanding in Efrat, are distressed over the decline of Christians throughout the Middle East. In the last 50 years, the Christian populations in the region have dropped significantly in every country except

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CJCUC Joins IJCIR as Partner

JERUSALEM, ISRAEL—Ohr Torah Stone’s Center for Jewish-Christian Understanding and Cooperation (CJCUC) in Efrat is pleased to announce that it is now a full partner of

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