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| How have Jews and Christians responded theologically to the horrors of the Holocaust? How can we speak of it? How can we not speak of it? |
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| The Holocaust Museum, light in the darkness… |
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| The Association of Jewish Refugees had some unusual speakers at their monthly lunch on 18th April. |
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| Each year CCJ conducts a seminar in Israel for local Christian leaders and clergy to study at Yad Vashem, the Holocaust Education Centre in Jerusalem. |
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Yad Vashem Seminar March 2012
A group of 15 clergy and other church leaders have benefitted from a ten-day seminar at Yad Vashem, Israel's national holocaust centre.
Organised by the CCJ, the group were able to hear from prominent lecturers on a wide range of themes including European Jewry between the world wars, anti-Judaism in the Christian Church, the persecution of non-Jewish victims during World War Two and the impact of the Holocaust on theology.
The name Yad Vashem means ‘a memorial and a name’ (Isaiah 56:5), and the aim of the centre is to give just such a memorial and name to the millions of Jewish victims of Nazi persecution, some of whom have no other memorial.
The group, who came from the Methodist Church, the Baptist Church, Church of England, Roman Catholic Church, Unitarian Church and United Reformed Church also visited holy sites in Galilee, enjoyed the beautiful Old City of Jerusalem and worshipped with a Palestinian Christian congregation in Bethlehem.
Tragically, while the group was at Yad Vashem the world was painfully reminded of contemporary anti-Semitism with the gunning down of a French-Israeli Rabbi, two of his children and another Jewish child in Toulouse.
CCJ project manager Fiona Hulbert, who led the group said: ‘It was a privilege to be at Yad Vashem, learning together with Christians from so many denominations. We were moved by the museum with its tragic story, but also inspired by the vision and dedication of so many of the people we met, and their determination to keep memory alive and have hope for the future’.
A poetic response to Yad Vashem by Azariah, one of the CCJ Seminar delagates.
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| | | | | One of CCJ’s longest serving members and Consultant has died at the age of 89. |
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| | | | | CCJ welcomes Church of Scotland’s decision to redraft introduction of paper on Israel and give clarity about some of the language used. |
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| | | | | Presidents, Vice Presidents and Board of Trustees joined together yesterday for a farewell lunch for the Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks. |
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| | | | | An evening looking at the work of The Peres Centre for Peace to foster Israeli-Palestinian relations |
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| | | | | CCJ seeks to bring two sides together following "insensitive" report |
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| | | | | The remains men, women and children believed to have been murdered more than 800 years ago, have been given a proper Jewish burial. |
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| | | | | The Council of Christians and Jews welcomes Pope Francis I, the first Pope to be elected from South America. |
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