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May 2013:

- Günther Bernd Ginzel: Observations on the Christian-Jewish dialogue
- Leonard Swidler: Dialogue Decalogue. Ground Rules for Inter-religious, Inter-ideological Dialogue
- Francesca Frazer: ICCJ Report on discussion of the Israel/Palestine Conflict and its impact on Christian-Jewish Dialogue
- Shelley O. Baranowski: From Luther to Hitler? Book review

April 2013:

- Debbie Young-Somers; Patrick Morrow: Fasting and Feasting in Contemporary Judaism and Christianity
- Clive Lawton: The challenges of Multiculturalism and Social Responsibility
- Address of the Holy Father Pope Francis Audience with representatives of the churches and ecclesial communities and of the different religions.
- Jewish, Christian, Muslim Conversation on the Exodus and the Passover Celebration on the Web. Report
- Ferenc Laczó: Antisemitism in Contemporary Hungary. Book review

March 2013:

- Philip Alexander: Personal Reflections on the Role of the Secular Academy in Inter-Faith Dialogue
- Steven L. Jacobs: The Question of the Non-Judaic Other. Book review
- A few remarks of Pope Benedict XVI. about Nostra Aetate. Report

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Articles | Observations & Experiences

Observations on the Christian-Jewish dialogue

Günther B. Ginzel* | 01.05.2013

The 27th January, known as the Holocaust Memorial Day: For me this is a time of emotional stress – just like Yom Hashoa, the Jewish day of mourning in memory of the Shoah, the Holocaust. The past has not passed – as much as one may yearn for it to pass. It has not passed for me either, who was born only after the liberation of 1945. ... [more]

Articles | Fundamentals & Introductions

Dialogue Decalogue

Leonard Swidler | 01.05.2013

These principles of dialogue were formulated by Professor Leonard Swidler of Temple University. The text is printed in the Journal of Ecumenical Studies 20:1 (1984). ... [more]

Articles | Observations & Experiences (118)

The challenges of Multiculturalism and Social Responsibility

Clive Lawton * | 01.04.2013

I start as is usual with me with a few digressions! … [more]

The Dabru Emet’s Sister

Mary Ann Kaiser | 01.02.2013

Having grown up in a fundamentalist religious background, I long thought that other religions were dangerous. I was taught that any involvement with another religion toes the line of idolatry. As a “faithful Christian,” I was fearful of affirming too much of another religion and disobeying “God.” Now, this makes me not only want to go back into the past and hug my little self out of sadness that I believed in such a closed-minded, punishing, and grumpy divine being but also to go back and shake myself for buying into and living such a mindset. … [more]




Articles | Fundamentals & Introductions (91)

Fasting and Feasting in Contemporary Judaism and Christianity

Debbie Young-Somers; Patrick Morrow | 01.04.2013

Rabbi Young-Somers and Rev'd P Morrow are reflecting in a short and informative way about the use and meaning of feasting and fasting in Judaism and Christianity. … [more]

Repentance and Forgiveness

David R. Blumenthal | 02.09.2012

During the spring of 1996, with the support of the American Jewish Committee, I was privileged to be in Rome to teach Jewish Studies at the Gregorian Pontifical University. The entire Rome experience was amazing (see my "Letter from Rome," Cross Currents, fall 1996, pp. 388-393). This paper is part of a continuing conversation with colleagues and friends in Rome as well as elsewhere in the Catholic world. … [more]




Articles | Scholarly Contributions (133)

Personal Reflections on the Role of the Secular Academy in Inter-Faith Dialogue

Philip Alexander * | 04.03.2013

Has the secular academy a role to play in inter-faith dialogue? For me this is a very personal question. A few years ago I retired as a professor of Jewish Studies at the University of Manchester. It was the end of an academic career spanning thirty-eight years in two major British universities (Oxford was the other one) – a career dedicated to teaching, research, and publication in the field of religion. … [more]

Nostra Aetate – 50 years on

Edward Kessler | 01.01.2013

Nostra Aetate, published on 28th October 1965 towards the end of the Second Vatican Council, helped transform Jewish-Christian relations. Pope John XXIII had already received wide attention a year earlier for publicly greeting Jewish visitors with the words, “I am Joseph your brother”. … [more]

Gary Burge: Not Sent by Heaven

Malcolm Lowe | 02.12.2012

One wonders whether Wheaton College believes that such programs befit a respectable teaching institution…. Burge's comparison of himself with Jesus is preposterous and absurd. … [more]

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Theological Questions and Perspectives in Jewish-Catholic Dialogue | Cardinal Kurt Koch
Jewish-Christian Dialogue in the Non-Western World | Pui-Lan KWOK
“Blessing for Each Other” | Gérald Caron
Seeking Understanding to Enable Constructive Dialogue | Jesper Svartvik
Media missed the point with Palestinian’s Auschwitz visit | Natalia Simanovsky
Articles | Observations & Experiences

After Auschwitz a culture of listening

We are in Oswiecim, not in Auschwitz. Oswiecim is a Polish city but from 1939 to 1945 it was occupied and incorporated into the German Reich and called Auschwitz. In that city the concentration camp system and the mass murder was organised. Auschwitz therefore was in Germany, not in Poland. ... [more]