Our Vision
Our Mission
Our Objectives
Patrons and Officers
Council Representatives

Our Vision

  To assist people of Jewish and Christian heritage to:

• understand and affirm each other's faith traditions
• articulate what we have in common
• celebrate the richness of diversity in our respective traditions
• promote our aims for the benefit of the wider community.

Our Mission

• Strengthen understanding, friendship, and inter-faith dialogue between the Jewish and Christian communities.
• Explore and articulate the faith understandings, central to religious understanding, worship and practice.
• Educate ourselves and the community to address the ignorance and stereotypical caricaturing of each other's faith tradition.
• Identify common aspects of our faith traditions which are the source of spiritual strength and have relevance for contemporary social issues.
• Articulate those elements of our traditions that have been or could be a source of tension and difficulty, and provide the foundation for creative theological difference.
• Celebrate the spiritual truths we hold in common and, whenever appropriate, religious festivals and significant days of remembrance.

Our Objectives

To achieve our mission we will:

• Meet regularly
• Identify key theological and social concerns of mutual interest
• Articulate the steps for helpful, open and mutual dialogue
• Keep in contact and share initiatives with the other Jewish-Christian Councils around Australia.
• Encourage representation with the National CCJ and at the annual conference
• Offer new initiatives for education and community projects
• Create initiatives that enable the Jewish and Christian heritage to engage with contemporary social issues.

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The South Australian Council of Christians and Jews is chaired by both a Jewish and a Christian representative. Co-chairs alternate leading council meetings.

PATRONS AND OFFICERS:

PATRONS
The Rev. Dr. Don Hopgood (Christian community). Lynette Ninio (Jewish Community)
CO-CHAIRS: The Rev David Houston (Christian) and Ron Hoenig (Jewish)
HON. SECRETARY: Dawn Colsey
HON. TREASURER: Merrilyn Ades

COUNCIL REPRESENTATIVES

Dr. Vicky Balabanski
Enid Boothby
Geraldine Hawkes
Ron Hoenig
Rev.David Houston
Sr. Mary Matthew
Rev. Margaret Polkinghorne
Trevor Schaefer
Dr. Stephen Spence
Fr. Dr. Michael Trainor
Cydney Wadewitz
Graham Wadewitz
Lenis Wells
Dr. Mark Worthing

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