Last week, the Vice-President of Forum for Dialogue, Zuzanna Radzik, took part in the International Council of Christians and Jews meeting in Frankfurt am Main, where she was one of the two Polish participants at the organization’s first in-person meeting. The most important event of this year’s event was the first ever Seelisberg Award ceremony, awarded to prof. Amy-Jill Levine in recognition of the role her New Testament research played in building new and mutually enriching relationships between Judaism and Christianity. We are all the more pleased that prof. Levine was the guest of one of Forum’s online meetings of the Shared Heritage program.

The ICCJ acts as an umbrella organization for 37 affiliated national organizations around the world that work for Christian-Jewish dialogue. Poland is represented by the Polish Council of Christians and Jews. The ICCJ and its affiliated organizations promote understanding and cooperation between Jews and Christians based on mutual respect, raise the issue of human rights in line with Christian and Jewish traditions, and combat all forms of intolerance, prejudice, discrimination, racism, and instrumental treatment of religion.