Jewish-Christian Relations: Recommended Resources

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Web Directories

Jewish Christian Relations: The most comprehensive online resource on Jewish-Christian relations, with links to organizations, institutes, conferences and an extensive archive of essays, including a compilation of statements from churches and organizations.

Bibliographies

Jewish Christian Relations 1989-1993: A Bibliographic Update, by Eugene Fisher, Secretariat for Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs, National Conference of Catholic Bishops (USA). An extensive biography and evaluation of current books and resources dealing with Jewish-Christian relations.
Jewish-Christian Relations 1993-1999: Bibiliographic Update

Organizations

Boston College Center for Jewish-Christian Learning is "devoted to the multifaceted development and implementation of new relationships between Christians and Jews that are based not merely on toleration but on full respect and mutual enrichment."
ICJS: Institute for Christian and Jewish Studies
The SIDIC Center. Operated by the Congregation of the Sisters of Our Lady of Sion, the SIDIC Center works to help the Church to understand and esteem the Jewish people as it understands itself, and to deepen Christian faith through the study of the faith of the Jewish people.

Selected Essays and Articles

The Catholic Church and the Jewish People, by Cardinal William H. Keeler. An address delivered at the conference of the International Council of Christians and Jews in Utrecht, The Netherlands, July 2, 2003.
The Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews: A Crucial Endeavour of the Catholic Church, by Cardinal Walter Kasper. Boston College. November 6, 2002

Reflections on Convenant & Mission, Issued by Bishops' Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs Committee and the National Council Of Synagogues. August 12, 2002.

Should Catholic Evangelization Target Jews? A Symposium, by the National Catholic Register Symposium.
Jewish-Christian Relations: Mixed Signals from the Vatican, by Christopher Blosser. A critique of Reflections on Covenant and Mission and the response from "radical-traditionalist" Catholic critics.
Covenant and Mission, by Avery Cardinal Dulles. Originally printed in America, Oct. 14, 2002.

On the Jewish People & Their Sacred Scriptures, Pontifical Biblical Commission. Preface by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger. May 24, 2001.

Rome Has Spoken: A new Catholic approach to Judaism, by Donald Senior. Commonweal January 1, 2003.

On Dominus Iesus and The Jews, by Rabbi David Berger. Delivered at the 17th meeting of the International Catholic-Jewish Liaison Committee, New York, May 1, 2001.

Jewish Catholic Relations: 1990 to 2001, two personal overviews of interfaith relations by Edward Idris Cardinal Cassidy and Rabbi Leon Klenicki, Rabbi Leon Klenicki, Consultant for Interfaith Affairs of the Anti-Defamation League. Delivered at the 17th meeting of the International Catholic-Jewish Liaison Committee, New York, May 1, 2001.

The Future of Jewish-Christian Relations in the Light of the Visit of Pope John Paul II to the Holy Land, by Cardinal Edward Idris Cassidy, retiring president of the Pontifical Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews, at the Annual General Meeting of the Interreligious Coordinating Council in Israel, March 13, 2001.
Dabru Emet: A Jewish Statement on Christians and Christianity, National Jewish Scholars Project.

Christianity in Jewish Terms: A Project to Redefine the Relationship, by Peter Ochs and David Sandmel. Co-author of Dabru Emet elaborates on the intentions for its publication.

Catholics and Jews Confront the Holocaust and Each Other, by Eugene Fisher.
A Dialogue of Head & Heart, The executive director of the Centre for Jewish-Christian Relations in Cambridge and the associate director for the American bishops' secretariat of ecumenical and interreligious affairs debate the merits of the Vatican document Dominus Iesus. [The Tablet, November 18, 2000].
Frequently Asked Questions [FAQ] in Jewish-Christian Dialogue from the Institute for Jewish Christian Studies (ICJS)
Why Convert The Saved?, by Eugene Fisher. [The Catholic Church does not support organisations which aim to convert Jews. Nor should it, argues the associate director of the Secretariat for Ecumenical and Interreligious Relations at the US Conference of Catholic Bishops. For the Church believes that Judaism is salvific for Jews].