Accommodating the significant growth of international Christian visitors from Europe and Latin America who wish to learn the Hebrew bible with Jewish educators in Israel, the Center for Jewish-Christian Understanding and Cooperation (CJCUC) has now hired a new...
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Rabbi Riskin Featured in New iPhone App – ISRAEL365
(JERUSALEM) A new iPhone application that aims to connect users with Israel on a daily basis, Israel365, has achieved impressive results in just a short period of its launch. “In just our first week, we had over 1,000...
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Rabbi Riskin Honors Pastor John and Diana Hagee with the Defender of Israel Award
At their recent annual Dinner in New York, Ohr Torah Stone paid tribute to Pastor John Hagee and his wife, Diana, for their unwavering commitment to the State of Israel and the Jewish people. “Like the Maccabees of...
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A Breakthrough in Jewish-Catholic Relations
A dream was actualized this week as a delegation of young Catholic Priests from Latin American, along with their local Jewish clergy counterparts, completed a Jewish-Christian educational mission in Israel. While in Israel the delegation discovered commonalities between...
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CJCUC Condemns Recent Extremist Attacks
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...
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CJCUC Expands Its Biblical Sessions in Jerusalem
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...
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CJCUC Appoints Dr. Mike Cohen as its Traveling Scholar
With the mandate to assist and enhance the Center for Jewish-Christian Understanding and Cooperation’s (CJCUC) relations with the Christian communities in North America, Rabbi Shlomo Riskin has appointed Dr. Mike Cohen as the first “CJCUC Traveling Scholar.” Dr....
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Rabbi Riskin Responds to the Violent Attacks by the Hilltop Youth In Israel
From my experience as an educator I know it’s hard, impossible actually, to preach to people who believe that they are the holy defenders of the Land of Israel; that they wave the banner of the pure and...
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Thousands Celebrate Israel in Seoul, Korea
The Center for Jewish-Christian Understanding and Cooperation’s (CJCUC) Executive Director, David Nekrutman, addressed thousands of Korean Christians celebrating Israel in front of Seoul City Hall last Tuesday. “People like you and others who have personally touched my life...
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Rabbi Riskin Arranges Meeting between Pastor Hagee and Sheikh Ja’abari
At the initiative of Rabbi Shlomo Riskin, a meeting was arranged last month in Jerusalem between Sheikh Abu-Khader Ja’abari of Hebron and Pastor John Hagee, Founder of the Cornerstone Church in San Antonio and of Christians United for...
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