Commission On Interreligious Affairs
of Reform Judaism

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Interreligious Sites

Beliefnet
Beliefnet is a multi-faith e-community which provides information about the religions of the world.

Center for Christian-Jewish Learning at Boston College
The Center for Christian-Jewish Learning at Boston College is dedicated to the growth of new and mutually enriching relationships between Christians and Jews. This website offers educational and dialogical aids, theological articles, official documents, and program information.

The Interfaith Alliance
The Interfaith Alliance is a non-partisan clergy-led grassroots organization dedicated to promoting the positive and healing role of religion in the life of the nation and challenging those who manipulate religion to promote intolerance.

Interfaith Voices for Peace and Justice
A directory of nearly 700 faith-based and interfaith groups and coalitions.

International Council of Christians and Jews (ICCJ)
The ICCJ promotes understanding and cooperation between Christians and Jews based on respect for each other's identity and integrity; addresses issues of human rights and human dignity deeply enshrined in the traditions of Judaism and Christianity; counters all forms of prejudice, intolerance, discrimination, racism and the misuse of religion for national and political domination; affirms that in honest dialogue each person remains loyal to his or her own essential faith commitment, recognizing in the other person his or her integrity and otherness; coordinates worldwide activities through a programme of carefully structured conferences held regularly in different countries. The participants examine current issues across national and religious boundaries, enabling face-to-face exchanges of experience and expertise; encourages research and education at all levels, including universities and theological seminaries, to promote interreligious understanding among students, teachers, religious leaders, and scholars; performs outreach in regions that so far have little or no structured Jewish-Christian dialogue, such as Eastern Europe, Africa, and the Far East; and provides a platform for wide-ranging theological debate in order to add a religious coice to the contemporary search for anwsers to existential and ethical challenges.

Interreligious Coordinating Council in Israel (ICCI)
The ICCI is an umbrella organization for institutions and individuals in Israel promoting interreligious and intercultural understanding. As a coordinating body, the ICCI strives to strengthen and broaden good relations among different faith communities in Israel.

Jewish Chautauqua Society (JCS)
The Jewish Chautauqua Society (JCS) is the interfaith educational arm of the North American Federation of Temple Brotherhoods (NFTB). JCS seeks to reduce anti- Semitism by providing non-Jews with opportunities to understand the culture, beliefs and practices of the Jewish people. JCS sponsors accredited courses on Judaic topics on college campuses, conducts interfaith institutes, supports field trips to sites of religious interest, provides book grants and produces educational videos

Jewish-Christian Relations
This site is concerned with issues in the on-going Christian-Jewish dialogue. The sites provides articles, bibliographies and other resources, pages of Christian-Jewish organizations, addresses of and links to institutes and groups involved in the dialogue, statements of churches, joint statements, as well as news, events and reports.

National Conference for Community and Justice (NCCJ)
Founded in 1927 as the National Conference for Christians and Jews, the National Conference for Community and Justice is a human relations organization dedicated to fighting bias, bigotry and racism. NCCJ promotes understanding and respect among all races, religions and cultures through advocacy, conflict resolution and education.

The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life
The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life seeks to promote a deeper understanding of how religion shapes the ideas and institutions of American society. At a time of heightened interest in religion’s public role and responsibilities, the Forum bridges the worlds of scholarship, public policy and journalism by creating a platform for research and discussion of issues at the intersection of religion and public affairs. The Forum explores how religious institutions and individuals contribute to civic life while honoring America’s traditions of religious liberty and pluralism.

Pluralism Project
The Pluralism Project is an ongoing research project at Harvard University focusing on religious pluralism and diversity in the United States

Religion News Service
RNS has a network of correspondents around the world, providing news and information on all faiths and religious movements to the nation's leading newspapers, news magazines, broadcast organizations and religious publications. The first priority of RNS is to provide intelligent, objective coverage of all religions. RNS produces a daily news service, a weekly news service, and a photo and graphics service.

World Conference on Religion and Peace
The World Conference on Religion and Peace is the largest international coalition of representatives from the world's great religions who are dedicated to achieving peace. Respecting cultural differences while celebrating our common humanity, WCRP is active on every continent and in some of the most troubled places on earth, creating multi-religious partnerships that mobilize the moral and social resources of religious people to address their shared problems.

Worldwide Faith News
Worldwide Faith News is a database of full text official news releases and other documents, including policy statements, from the news offices of national and world faith groups.

Children of Abraham

Children of Abraham seeks to build an international community of Muslim and Jewish youth that celebrates their religious identities. Through an engaging project involving a photographic exploration of Jewish and Muslim communities around the world, and honest, unflinching online dialogue, participants form a network of advocates and ambassadors for ground-breaking Muslim-Jewish relations in six continents.

Interfaith Youth Core

Through our innovative program models and capacity building approach, Interfaith Youth Core seeks to build a movement that encourages religious young people to strengthen their religious identities, foster inter-religious understanding and cooperate to serve the local and global community

An exciting and empowering new kind of peace initiative that utilizes the performing arts. A project that will help your organization/community build bridges of understanding.

Abraham's Vision

The ancient figure Abraham is universally recognized for embodying the values of hope and hospitality, committed not only to opening his home to the 'other' but transforming him or her into a friend. At Abraham's Vision we stand for these principles and strive to instill them in our participants, through our unique conflict transformation and leadership training programs. Working with students from different ethnic and religious communities, we create safe spaces in which individuals can develop and re-develop their notions of themselves, the 'other', and the world at large.

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