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Cardinal Pizzaballa: Keep attention on the Holy Land, West Bank, and Gaza
Three years after the October 7 attacks, the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem describes a Holy Land gripped by mistrust in an interview with the Vatican's…
Read morePope to American Jewish Committee: ‘We reject together all forms of hatred’
Addressing a delegation of the American Jewish Committee, Pope Leo XIV encourages everyone to work together to promote human dignity, defend religious…
Read moreShared Scriptures, Shared Questions: Jewish Readings of the Christian Testament
Acknowledgments: This article was presented as an Irish Theological Quarterly guest lecture at St Patrick’s Pontifical University, Maynooth on 24…
Read moreFrom John Paul II to Pope Leo XIV: 40 years of the ‘Spirit of Assisi’
On the 40th anniversary of the historic Day of Prayer for Peace, convened by Pope John Paul II on October 27, 1986, the legacy of the “Spirit of…
Read morePrayer Protects the World
Remarks by Oded Wiener, Director-General of the Chief Rabbinate of Israel, with responsibility for relations with Diaspora communities and the…
Read morePrayer, Dialogue and Peace: the Legacy of Assisi
Remarks by David Rosen, former Chief Rabbi of Ireland, Special Advisor to the Abrahamic Family House in Abu Dhabi, at Forum 22, “Prayer, Dialogue and…
Read morePrayer Protects the World
Remarks by Oded Wiener, Director-General of the Chief Rabbinate of Israel, with responsibility for relations with Diaspora communities and the…
Read moreCardinal Pizzaballa: Keep attention on the Holy Land, West Bank, and Gaza
Three years after the October 7 attacks, the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem describes a Holy Land gripped by mistrust in an interview with the Vatican's…
Read moreShared Scriptures, Shared Questions: Jewish Readings of the Christian Testament
Acknowledgments: This article was presented as an Irish Theological Quarterly guest lecture at St Patrick’s Pontifical University, Maynooth on 24…
Read moreReconstructing Kaplan
Review essay of Mel Scult, The Religious Humanism of Mordecai Kaplan: An Anthology (Mosaic Press, 2026).
Read moreChristology According to the Scriptures: Complementing Nicaea with Jewish Narrative, Vocabulary, and Symbols
The composition of the Nicene Creed – technically the “Nicaeno-Constantinopolitan Creed,” as the statement of faith first drafted at Nicaea in 325 was…
Read moreRenewing Tradition: The Orthodox Christians in Dialogue with Jews Working Group and the Challenge of Anti-Judaism
In spring 2023 the Orthodox Theological Society in America (OTSA) launched a significant new initiative aimed at addressing one of the most enduring…
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Book Reviews |
Yaniv Feller:
The Jewish imperial imagination: Leo Baeck and German-Jewish thought.
Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2024
243 pp., £85.00…
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Mary C. Boys:
Blessing of a New Dawn:
Reorienting Christianity’s Relation to Judaism
Orbis Books, 2025), paperback, 280pp.
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Thomas Albert Howard:
The Faiths of Others. A History of Interreligious Dialogue.
New Haven, London: Yale University Press, 2021
359 pp., £ 25,00/ $ 38,-
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Sarah E. Rollens, Eric M. Vanden Eykel, and Meredith J. C. Warren, Eds.
Judeophobia and the New Testament: Texts and Contexts
Grand Rapids: Eerdmans,…
Cardinal Koch: It is impossible to be a disciple of Christ and at the same time an antisemite
September 16, 2026 - Marking the release of “A Journey of Hope,” Cardinal Kurt Koch, Prefect of the Dicastery for the Promotion of Christian Unity,…
Read moreRepentance, Repair and Reconciliation in Hanover
Report, by Canadian participants, on the 2026 Conference of the International Council of Christian and Jews in Hanover.
Read moreChief Rabbi of Rome criticises Vatican document
In an article for the official online magazine of the Jewish Community of Rome, the Chief Rabbi of the Jewish Community of Rome, Riccardo de Segni,…
Read moreStatement on meeting between the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Board of Deputies
September 11, 2026 - President Phil Rosenberg and colleagues from the Board of Deputies of British Jews met yesterday with the Archbishop of…
Read moreWe Must Learn to Hear What the Other is Really Saying
A response to Prof. Sergio Della Pergola. Concerning Patriarch Pierbattista Pizzaballa’s Recent Pastoral Letter.
Read morePesach and Easter
I will speak from my experience. Long before I was ordained an Anglican priest, I was already in the habit of organising visits to different Houses of…
Read moreRemarks on Pesach/Easter
I want to thank the ICCJ for giving me the opportunity to wish my friends and colleagues best wishes for healthy and happy festivals.
Read moreI am the child that Hitler feared
Speech on the occasion of the Day of Remembrance for the Victims of National Socialism (January 27) in the Parliament of the Federal Republic of…
Read moreWhat We Lose When Jesus Is Separated from His Jewish Roots
Exodus gives us the reason for the Passover meal and its original instructions. Deuteronomy later directs Israel to sacrifice and eat the meal at the…
Read moreBridging Traditions: Reflection on Nearly Half a Century of Jewish-Orthodox Christian Dialogue in Cambridge
Orthodox Christianity is often seen as the Christian tradition…
Read moreThe CODJ Association and its Theological Group for Jewish-Orthodox Christian Dialogue
History, Developments and Objectives
Read morePeace Voices in the Middle East
Focus on the Geneva Initiative, Hinuch le Shalom and the Palestinian Peace Coalition.
Read moreAppeal by Christians and Jews for a Voice of Discernment and Peace
The following statement, drafted by a group of individuals committed to Jewish-Christian dialogue, issues a call for discernment and nuance in…
Read moreRededicating Ourselves to Deepening Interfaith Relationships: A Pledge Sponsored by the International Council of Christians and Jews
The First and Second World Wars killed over one hundred million people and made refugees of hundreds of millions more. Empires fell. Nations were…
Read moreICCJ-Statement: In Solidarity With Israel
10.10.2023 - A few days ago, on Shabbat morning and on the onset of Simchat Torah which was supposed to be a day of peace and joy, Israel experienced…
Read moreJewish and Catholic Approaches to the terminally ill: The Prohibited, the Permitted and the Obligatory
12.05.2023 - Joint Statement of the 17th Bilateral Commission of the Delegations of the Chief Rabbinate of Israel and the Holy See’s Commission for…
Read moreIJCIC Response to the World Council of Churches’ Statement on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
July 14, 2025. The International Jewish Committee for Interreligious Consultations (IJCIC) categorically denounces the World Council of Churches’…
Read moreWorld Jewish Congress Mourns Passing of Pope Francis
21 Apr 2025 - NEW YORK – Upon learning of the passing of Pope Francis, World Jewish Congress President Ronald S. Lauder said:
Read moreIJCIC repudiates charge of Israeli genocide
November 22, 2024. In light of the recent controversy arising from a comment by Pope Francis recorded in Hernán Reyes Alcaide’s “Hope Never…
Read moreA Journey of Hope
Sixty Years of Interreligious Dialogue and Fraternity in the Light of the Conciliar Declaration Nostra Aetate.
Read moreFinal Communiqué of the Holy Land Co-ordination 17-21 January 2026
Thursday, January 22nd, 2026
Read more"The spirit of Nostra Aetate continues to illuminate the path of the Church"
Catechesis on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the conciliar Declaration Nostra aetate, General Audience, St Peter's Square, Rome, 29 October…
Read moreWalking together in Hope
On October 28, the Holy Father Leo XIV received in audience the participants in the meeting on “Nostra Aetate” on the occasion of its sixtieth…
Read morePope Leo: The message of 'Nostra aetate' remains as urgent as ever
October 28, 2025 - Pope Leo XIV presides at “Walking Together in Hope,” a celebration of 60 years of “Nostra aetate”, the Second Vatican Council’s…
Read morePassover is a Jewish holiday remembering sorrowful events and celebrating hope for a better future
Jewish families will gather for Passover this year in circumstances that will, like the celebration itself, reflect on dark times while looking ahead…
Read morePost-Holocaust Theology. An overview
The Shoah (Holocaust) has raised a number of questions to which Jewish philosophers, theologians, and historians have given different answers. This…
Read moreWho wrote the Bible?
The Bible tells an overall story about the history of the world: creation, fall, redemption and God’s Last Judgement of the living and the dead.
Read moreBonhoeffer, Kierkegaard, and Conditional Pacifism
Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a Christian pacifist who believed Jesus Christ taught nonviolence, yet Bonhoeffer was involved in a conspiracy to assassinate…
Read morePascha as Liberation
In Orthodox Christian tradition, the feast we are discussing today is called Pascha, which is simply the Greek form of Pesach.
Read moreThe Fire and the Water. Christian Antisemitism, Narrative Diagnosis, and Theological Repair
The fire of antisemitism is being fed by stories that Christians tell about themselves, about Jews, and about the relationship between the two. And…
Read moreImpact of October 7 Attack and 2024 War in Gaza on Catholic–Jewish Relations
Since Nostra Aetate (Paul VI 1965b), the Catholic Church has established itself slowly but surely at the forefront of…
Read moreStatement on Gaza and Peace in the Middle East
August 4, 2025 - In Gaza, deliberately caused starvation has placed 500,000 people at immediate risk, amid the killing of over 50,000 and the…
Read moreAppeal for Peace
This appeal for peace was presented by children to religious leaders at the closing session of the international meeting ‘Imagining Peace’ organised…
Read moreThe elderly in contemporary society and their protection
Declaration of the Abrahamic Religions, Buenos Aires, Monday, August 28, 2023.
Read moreNo one is saved alone
Final communique at the International Meeting of Prayer for Peace between the large world religions, October 20, 2020, Rome.
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