christian Jewish relations - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Fri, 04 Sep 2015 08:46:21 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg christian Jewish relations - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Leading Rabbi invited by Bishops' committee to speak in NZ https://cathnews.co.nz/2015/09/04/leading-rabbi-invited-by-bishops-committee-to-speak-in-nz/ Thu, 03 Sep 2015 19:02:29 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=76087

The NZ Catholic Bishops Committee for Interfaith Relations have invited Rabbi Fred Morgan to visit New Zealand this month. The invitation is to mark the 50th Anniversary of the historical document Nostra Aetate - the Declaration on the Relation of the Catholic Church to Non-Christian Religions published in 1965. He will speak first on 9 Read more

Leading Rabbi invited by Bishops' committee to speak in NZ... Read more]]> The NZ Catholic Bishops Committee for Interfaith Relations have invited Rabbi Fred Morgan to visit New Zealand this month.

The invitation is to mark the 50th Anniversary of the historical document Nostra Aetate - the Declaration on the Relation of the Catholic Church to Non-Christian Religions published in 1965.

He will speak first on 9 September at Otago University's Annual Peace Lecture, and then on 10 September present his Nostra Aetate reflection at Kavanagh College, Dunedin.

Morgan will then speak in Wellington and Auckland on the relationship today between Christians and Jews.

Morgan is a Senior Rabbi of Temple Beth Israel, Melbourne, and has been active in interfaith relations for most of his working life.

 

He is currently a Professorial Fellow at the Australian Catholic University in the area of Jewish-Christian relations.

Morgan is also an Hon. President and Coordinator of the innovative "Grass Roots Dialogue Project" for the Victorian branch of the Council of Christians and Jews (CCJ).

In 2014 Morgan was made a Member in the Order of Australia for services to the Jewish community and interfaith relations.

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Race Relations Commissioner Dame Susan Devoy has described an attack on Jewish graves in Dunedin as "gutless, shameful and ignorant" and urged anyone with information on the offenders to contact Police. Constable Greg Marsden said two headstones had been hit with so much force that they "have broken in half". The third headstone had a Read more

Dob in desecrators of Jewish graves... Read more]]> Race Relations Commissioner Dame Susan Devoy has described an attack on Jewish graves in Dunedin as "gutless, shameful and ignorant" and urged anyone with information on the offenders to contact Police.

Constable Greg Marsden said two headstones had been hit with so much force that they "have broken in half".

The third headstone had a swastika painted on it.

Devoy is absolutely right in saying that it is up to all New Zealanders to act against hatemongers, said Wellington Interfaith Council president Wendy Matthews.

"Our interfaith council, and others around the country, are working constantly to build understanding and co-operation between New Zealand's faith groups, so that violence arising from religious differences, unfortunately now so widespread overseas, will not develop here," she added.

Every year the Human Rights Commission responds to thousands of enquiries and complaints and approximately a third of them are to do with racial discrimination.

This year marked the tenth year of the Commission's Diversity Programme - launched in the wake of attacks on Jewish graves in 2004.

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Dob in desecrators of Jewish graves]]> 68209 Are Messianic Jews descendants of original Jewish Christians? https://cathnews.co.nz/2013/11/29/messianic-jews-ancient-jewish-christians-resurfacing/ Thu, 28 Nov 2013 18:30:48 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=52606 "Messianic Jews "represent themselves as modern-day counterparts of first-century Jewish-Christian followers of Jesus, who, as it were, went underground for almost two millenia only to resurface recently as today's Jewish messianics!" says Rabbi Michael J. Cook, the Sol and Arlene Bronstein Professor in Judeo-Christian Studies at Hebrew Union College, writes in his book, Modern Jews Engage the Read more

Are Messianic Jews descendants of original Jewish Christians?... Read more]]> "Messianic Jews "represent themselves as modern-day counterparts of first-century Jewish-Christian followers of Jesus, who, as it were, went underground for almost two millenia only to resurface recently as today's Jewish messianics!" says Rabbi Michael J. Cook, the Sol and Arlene Bronstein Professor in Judeo-Christian Studies at Hebrew Union College, writes in his book, Modern Jews Engage the New Testament.

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