One of the chief initiatives sponsored by the Council of Christians and Jews of South Australia over the past several months was a short course of six weeks duration (in June and July) on “”The History of the Jews,”presented by Dr. Evan Zuesse, co-chair of the SA CCJ, at a local synagogue's social hall. It […]
NEWSLETTER No: 58 – July 2004
Christian & Jewish SCENE A historic stepping stone in the work of the Australian Council of Christians and Jews ? its first National Conference, which took place in Melbourne over the June Queen?s Birthday Long Weekend — found its focus on the need for greater educational initiatives. Two of the Conference agenda panel presentations placed the spotlight on the […]
Christians Remember the Shoah
Shoah, the Hebrew word for “”Holocaust”is the term applied to the cold blooded and systematic destruction of six million Jews by the Nazis during Word War II, a process that began in 1933 and continued for twelve years. Hitler's plan to exterminate the Jews of Europe was given the code-name of “”The Final Solution to the Jewish Problem.”In the […]
History of the Council of Christians and Jews (VIC) Inc.
The Year Book of the Victorian Jewish Board of Deputies for 1962, published on page 7 the details of a Victorian Council of Christians and Jews with its address given as 3rd Floor, 57 Swanston Street, Melbourne, C.1. with its telephone 63 27 36. It lists its joint Presidents as the two Archbishops of our […]
Shoah Memorial Service
Abraham Joshua Heschel mdacy@library.usyd.edu.au
Sho'ah Memorial Service FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT
FOR CHRISTIANS AND ALL PEOPLE OF COMPASSION to REMEMBER 1933 – 1945. The altar is dressed in black and white: black for the darkness of the Sho?ah, the catastrophic tempest which blew six million Jews to their death during the years of the Nazi regime, from 1933-1945; white for the Jewish liturgical colour of […]
Interfaith dialogue and Peacebuilding
David R. Smock, ed. United States Institute of Peace Press, 2002 Reviewed by Mary Reveal In our increasingly diverse societies, we interact with people of different faiths. At times, this poses a great challenge: something deeply sacred and ?true” for one faith might be in stark contrast with what is ?true” in another religious tradition. […]
Constantine's Sword: The Church and the Jews
Author: James Carroll Publisher: Haughton Mifflin Co Reviewer: Calev Ben-David As the child of a devout American-Catholic family who studied under the Jesuits at Georgetown University and spent six years as a priest before hanging up his robes to become a novelist, James Carroll is uniquely positioned to deliver a work on this subject that is both […]
Apples from the Desert: Selected Stories
Author: Savyon Liebrecht, transl. by the Institute of Translation of Hebrew Literature Publisher: Feminist Press (240pp) As Grace Paley notes in her foreword to the first English translation of popular Israeli writer, Savyon Liebtrecht's work, these dozen stories are personal but they are also fierce pleas for understanding and justice. Their themes are sombre; the […]
An Anthology of Latin American Jewish Writings
ISBN: 916288-06-4 288 pgs.
