Blogs
The Three Weeks and Tisha B’Av: From Lament to Consolation
Posted Jul 30th, 2020The process of grief follows its own rules: shock and numbness, grief and anger, sadness and resignation and back again to incredulity and grief. We face our losses in different ways, both according to our temper and the triggers that unconsciously give expression to our heartache and sorrow. Such pain and anguish are unprescribed, unanticipated; they catch us unawares, we lose our foothold. Read more
A reflection on the CCJ Presidents’ “Pilgrimage in Lockdown”
Posted Jun 24th, 2020The Rt Revd Dr Michael Ipgrave OBE, Chair of CCJ, writes:
Read moreStay Home Save Lives: a blog for Refugee Week
Posted Jun 10th, 2020Barbara Winton, refugee rights campaigner and daughter of Sir Nicholas Winton writes:
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Refugees Welcome: a blog for Refugee Week
Posted Jun 10th, 2020Rev Heston Groenewald, Vicar of All Hallows Church, Leeds, and recipient of the 21 for 21 award for his work with refugees, writes:
Read moreThe Omer – Rabbi Barry Kleinberg
Posted May 6th, 2020Warning: This post is not about coronoavirus….AT ALL (apart from this warning of course!)
Read moreVictory and the Memory of Liberation: What can the 75th anniversary of VE Day teach us about the future of Holocaust remembrance?
Posted May 6th, 2020When war came to an end in Europe in May 1945, 75 years ago, the Revd Leslie Skinner, a Methodist minister and chaplain to a British tank regiment, recorded in his diary that he was ‘too tired and cold to care. Stayed in bed. Read more
‘We are going for our people’: the life of Edith Stein
Posted Apr 16th, 2020For Yom HaShoah, Canon Edward Jarosz, priest of the Catholic Diocese of Nottingham, and alumnus of CCJ’s Yad Vashem seminar writes:
Read more‘Daring to do what is right’: A message from our Chair
Posted Apr 15th, 2020A message for Easter and Passover from our Chair, the Rt Revd Dr Michael Ipgrave OBE:
Read moreA prayer for Holocaust Memorial Day
Posted Mar 21st, 2020This prayer and reflection were specially written by Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg, President of CCJ and Senior Rabbi of Masorti Judaism, for Holocaust Memorial Day 2020.
Read moreSermon by Student Leader Florence at Pembroke College Chapel, Oxford’s interfaith service
Posted Mar 13th, 2020What an amazing privilege to hear the readings said by a Jew and a Muslim.
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