On Tuesday 5th November, Rabbi Chava Koster told us the extraordinarily rich story of Dutch Jewry at a different level. The Amsterdam community grew to be significant from the remnants of the Spanish and Portuguese Jewish communities (the Sephardi Jews, the Jews from Spain) and the Jewish converts (“conversos”), who were welcomed to Amsterdam… Read more »
CCJ South East London News
CCJ South East London Meeting June 2019 – “Celebrating in the same week, Pentecost and Shavuot”
This meeting was held on Tuesday 11 June 2019 at 8pm at St Stephen’s Church College Road London SE21 7HN These year 2 key festivals, Passover and Easter fall at the same time. Consequently, Shavuot and Pentecost also take place 7 weeks later. Carole Abrahams from Catford Synagogue spoke about the significance of the Book… Read more »
CCJ South East London Meeting January 2019 – St Stephen’s Church, Dulwich
Council of Christians and Jews SE London Meeting on 22nd January 2019 in St Stephen’s Church, Dulwich We discussed the “Importance of Trees in the Bible and in SE London” In the context of the Jewish New Year for Trees (“Tu B’shvat”), celebrated on the previous day. Our Panel, chaired by Rev Bernhard… Read more »
Report of CCJ SE London meeting on Prayer in Christian and Jewish communities
On 17th October 2017, as the first event in SE London’s marking of the CCJ’s 75th anniversary, we were privileged to participate in a rich discussion on development of prayer in the Christian and Jewish communities, over the last 75 years. Two experienced and thoughtful speakers offered us two very different personal perspectives on changes in… Read more »
CCJ S.E. London: Report of tour of medieval Jewish Oxford
Combined CCJ SE London tour of medieval Jewish Oxford, and Oxford colleges associated with key individuals in the history of the translation of the Bible into English CCJ SE London was given a combined tour on June 5th 2017 of medieval Jewish Oxford, together with Oxford colleges associated with key individuals in the history of… Read more »
