Center for Jewish-Christian Understanding and Cooperation
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| Abbreviation | CJCUC |
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| Motto | "Come now, let us reason together, says the Lord" ~Isaiah 1:18 |
| Formation | 2008 |
| Founder | Rabbi Dr. Shlomo Riskin |
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| Services | Jewish–Christian relations & Bible study center |
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Executive director
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David Nekrutman |
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Academic director
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Rabbi Eugene Korn, PhD. |
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Associate director
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Rabbi Pesach Wolicki |
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Director Central Europe
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Rabbi Josh Ahrens |
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Parent organization
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Ohr Torah Stone |
| Website | www |
The Center for Jewish–Christian Understanding and Cooperation or CJCUC is an educational institution at which Christians who tour Israel can study the Hebrew Bible with Orthodox rabbis and learn about the Hebraic roots of Christianity. The center was established in Efrat in 2008 by Rabbi Dr. Shlomo Riskin, who has been described as "the most prominent rabbinic spokesperson to Christian Zionists". CJCUC partners with major Christian interfaith organizations such as Christians United for Israel and the International Christian Embassy Jerusalem.
The ideological groundwork, which led to the eventual establishment of CJCUC in 2008, began to take shape almost 50 years beforehand. In 1964, Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik, the teacher and mentor of CJCUC's Chancellor and Founder, Shlomo Riskin, published an essay entitled "Confrontation" in which he expounded his views on interfaith dialogue and carefully drew out guidelines which permitted such a dialogue and, in the view of Riskin, not only permitted it but rendered it necessary.
At around the same time, fundamental ideological shifts were forming within the ranks of the Catholic Church and a year after Soloveitchik's essay was published, The Holy See issued Nostra aetate, the Declaration on the Relation of the Church with Non-Christian Religions. Nostra aetate absolved the Jews from the crucifixion of Jesus and admitted that religious antisemitism had a significant role in laying the foundation for the atrocities perpetrated against the Jewish people.
Riskin's academic plunge into Jewish–Christian relations began in the early 1960s when he attended seminars, held by Professor David Flusser, about the Christian Gospels at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. As an Orthodox Jew, he could pinpoint the parallels for Jesus' teachings within the Hebrew scripture.
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