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CJCUC Condemns Recent Extremist Attacks

Posted in News & Events | February 13, 2012 at 6:21 pm, by CJCUC

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The Center for Jewish-Christian Understanding and Cooperation in Efrat strongly condemns the recent attacks on a Jewish-Arab school and a Christian monastery in Jerusalem. These attacks are contrary to Jewish ethics, Zionism and Jewish Law (halakhah), and the...

Holy People

Posted in Bible Study | January 26, 2012 at 2:55 pm, by CJCUC

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“Holy” is one of the traditional key-words of religion. There are holy people, holy places, holy days, holy thoughts. We tend to think that all these instances of holiness are rare and special, but as far as Bible...

Garden of Eden’s Fruit

Posted in Bible Study | January 16, 2012 at 5:13 pm, by CJCUC

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Was the fruit of Tree of Life from which Adam and Eve ate really an apple? While Genesis 2:7 never identifies the actual fruit, Jewish tradition has several opinions on the matter: fig, grapes, wheat, quince, pomegranate, nuts...

Speaking out against mosque desecration

Posted in From Our Scholars | January 15, 2012 at 6:06 pm, by CJCUC

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Across the world, people were outraged by the news that mosques in Israel had been desecrated and racist graffiti scrawled across their walls. Israeli Jews felt ashamed. We asked ourselves: do the perpetrators have any understanding of Jewish...

CJCUC Expands Its Biblical Sessions in Jerusalem

Posted in News & Events | January 5, 2012 at 7:28 am, by CJCUC

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JERUSALEM, ISRAEL – To accommodate the growing requests of Christian groups visiting Israel to learn the Hebrew Scriptures with Orthodox Jewish rabbis, The Center for Jewish-Christian Understanding and Cooperation (CJCUC) in Efrat announced the opening of its new...