International Council of Christians and Jews

The ICCJ serves as the umbrella organisation of 38 national Jewish-Christian dialogue organisations world-wide.

The ICCJ member organisations world-wide over the past five decades have been successfully engaged in the historic renewal of Jewish-Christian relations. Founded as a reaction to the Holocaust, the Shoah, in the awareness that ways must be found to examine the deeply engrained roots of mistrust, hatred and fear that culminated in one of the worst evils in human history, theologians, historians and educators included the still fragile structure of enlightenment and the human rights movements of the inter-war period.

In more recent years the ICCJ and its members increasingly engaged in the Abrahamic dialogue: the encounter between Jews, Christians and Muslims. The ICCJ's efforts to promote Jewish-Christian dialogue provide models for wider interfaith relations, particularly dialogue among Jews, Christians, and Muslims.

Through its annual conferences and other consultations the ICCJ offers a platform where people of different religious backgrounds examine current issues across national and religious boundaries, enabling face-to-face exchanges of experience and expertise.

The international headquarters of the ICCJ are located in the house where the great Jewish thinker Martin Buber lived until Nazi persecution forced him to flee Gemany.

ICCJ有38个成员国,它致力于促进和维护犹太人-基督教的团体对话. ICCJ在过去50年已经成功重建了基督教与犹太教的关系. 它为不同宗教之间提供更广泛的对话交流的模式,特别在犹太人,基督徒和伊斯兰教徒之间.它通过年度会议和磋商来研究及解决宗教和民族问题. 其国际总部设在伟大犹太思想家布伯在德国的故居.