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Interfaith Work
Working with leaders and members of diverse faiths, the JCRC works to promote greater understanding and respect and to reduce prejudice among faith groups in the St. Louis area.
Christian / Jewish
Interfaith Breakfast
Muslim / Jewish
Links to Community Partners
August 12, 2010 Meeting
Archbishop Robert J. Carlson and Dr. Lawrence J. Welch, the Director of the Office of Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs of the Archdiocese of St. Louis, met recently with Jewish community leadership at the Jewish Federation Building, at a meeting facilitated by the Jewish Community Relations Council. The meeting, focusing on issues of mutual concern, provided an opportunity for the reaffirmation of the bonds of friendship and collaboration between the two faith communities. The assembled also reaffirmed the 2009 United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) Statement of Principles for Catholic-Jewish Dialogue, and the joint statement of the USCCB and the National Council of Synagogues (NCS) of America in the same year. These documents are available on the website of the Archdiocese http://archstl.org/ and of the JCRC http://jcrcstl.org/. A jointly sponsored program coinciding with the forty-fifth anniversary of Nostra Aetate and focusing on areas of mutual concern is being planned for early fall. A Declaration of the Second Vatican Council, Nostra Aetate marked a new beginning in Catholic-Jewish relations.
Photos below are courtesy of Andrew Kerman and The Jewish Light.
L-R: Nancy Lisker, Rabbi Howard Kaplansky, Dr. Lawrence Welch,
Archbishop Robert Carlson, Rabbi Brad Horwitz, Karen Aroesty,
Batya Abramson-Goldstein, Gerald Greiman, Rabbi Jeffrey Stiffman
L-R: Archbishop Robert Carlson, Rabbi Brad Horwitz, Karen Aroesty,
Batya
Abramson-Goldstein, Gerald Greiman, Rabbi Jeffrey Stiffman
Two related links are: http://www.nccbuscc.org/seia/StatementofPrinciples.pdf
http://www.usccb.org/comm/archives/2009/09-249.shtml
Jews and Christians: Talking Across our Differences
Dialogue and Discussion
This event was held on July 18, 2010 at Aquinas Institute of Theology. Event co-sponsors were Aquinas, Eden Theological Seminary, and JCRC. Supporting organizations included The Holocaust Museum and Learning Center, Interfaith Partnership/Faith Beyond Walls and The Saint Louis Rabbinical Association. Featured speakers were Professor Mary C. Boys, S.N.J.M., adjunct faculty member of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America and Teachers College, Columbia University and Professor Sara S. Lee, Adjunct Professor Emeritus of Jewish Education at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion.
Click here to read article which appeared in The Jewish Light on
July 21, 2010.
JCRC Executive Director receives award
Batya Abramson-Goldstein, Executive Director of the JCRC, was presented the Eden Theological Seminary 2009 Interfaith Service Award by David Greenhaw, President of Eden, at the "We Have a Prayer: Interfaith Relations in Difficult Times" event held at Aquinas on July 13th. To read an article in the Eden Theological Seminary newsletter, click here
Christian / Jewish
Christian/Jewish Center for Public Issues at Eden Theological Seminary
The Christian/Jewish Center for Public Issues at Eden Theological Seminary, established in May, 2006, is a cooperative effort with the Jewish Community Relations Council (JCRC) of St. Louis. Its goal is to provide a vehicle for monitoring, reflecting upon and acting on public issues of common concern for the Christian and Jewish communities of the Greater St. Louis area.
Presbyterian / Jewish Dialogue Group
With the goal of exploring issues of mutual concern, members from different starting points come together with shared values and commitments to establish new patterns for the future. The conversations and cooperation are essential as groups learn about each other, developing relationships with others who are different and distinct.
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Interfaith Breakfast
The Interfaith Breakfast Dialogue Group, co-sponsored with the National Conference for Community and Justice, brings together representatives of a broad range of faith communities to address issues such as multiculturalism, social justice and religious diversity within the Greater St. Louis community.
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Muslim / Jewish Dialogue Groups (co-sponsored by the Islamic Foundation)
Muslim / Jewish Dialogue Group
This group is for Muslim and Jewish adults giving a non-threatening forum for each group to explore their differences and similarities. Social justice, diversity and peace are some of the issues that are explored.
Muslim / Jewish Teen Dialogue Groups
Muslim and Jewish Teens begin to learn early in life about each other's cultures.
Some of the participants at the April JAM session. From left to right: Mujtaba Syed, Taha Yunus, Sana Habib, Nathan Emmons, Samia Javed, Eliana Parnas, Wendy Low, Iqra Khan, Paul Lisker, and Davita Wachsstock
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