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Jewish Muslim Dialogue and Co-operation PROJECT SUMMARY | Mapping Reports of Jewish Muslim Dialogue | European
Conference on Jewish Muslim Dialogue | European
Platform for Jewish Muslim Co-operation | Platform Launch | Local Initiatives | Declaration of Support for Jewish Muslim Co-operation | Submit Project Details | News | Press | Links | Contacts In CEJI's vision, the various cultures that make up Europe today bring to the continent a richness that needs to be cherished. Recognising this enhances the respect people have for each other. Interfaith and intercultural dialogue, which are crucial in fostering this respect, are key aspects of CEJI's work.
This initiative aims to enable willing communities to make direct contact with and foster relations between their respective members, creating a local atmosphere of respect and understanding. This is an essential step towards the development of enduring good relations between these two cultures in Europe.
This exciting new seminar brings together CEJI’s brand new training manuals addressing Antisemitism and Islamophobia, developed by our Religious Diversity education team together with the Jewish Muslim Cooperation Platform and our long term youth partner EPTO (European Peer Trainers Organisation) in a brand new pilot seminar. Check the details about this innovative event here. Connected with the event is the produced of two new manuals ‘Overcoming Antisemitism’ and ‘Overcoming Islamophobia’. These manuals are suitable for use within the context of Jewish Muslim dialogue giving the opportunity for members of both communities to examine and address both of these important issues. The manuals were developed with the generous support of the European Youth Foundation of the Council of Europe. More information can be obtained from training@ceji.org
Launched in late 2005, CEJI’s Jewish Muslim Dialogue Initiative is supported by the Ford Foundation and received co-financing from the European Commission for a one-year period beginning in May 2006. Work in 2006 focused on compiling national mapping reports containing information on partnerships, initiatives and best practice in the field of Jewish Muslim dialogue and producing these reports for Belgium, Denmark, France, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. The mapping reports were released at a European Conference on Jewish-Muslim Dialogue, which took place in Brussels from 15 - 17 April 2007. This event celebrated the many successful Jewish Muslim dialogue initiatives taking place in local communities and provided an opportunity to share experiences and good practice for Jewish and Muslim participants from five European countries. A major outcome of the Conference was a Declaration of Support for Jewish Muslim Co-operation which agreed to establish a European Platform for Jewish Muslim Co-operation. The offical launch of the Platform took place on 27 November 2007 at the European Parliament in Brussels. For further details about the Jewish Muslim Dialogue & Co-operation Initiative contact Dialogue Co-ordinator Ruth Friedman: E-mail: ruth.friedman@ceji.org Telephone: +32 (0) 2 340 96 27 (direct line) / +32 (0) 2 344 34 44 (switchboard) Address: CEJI - A Jewish Contribution to an Inclusive Europe, 319 Avenue Brugmann, B-1180 Brussels - Belgium |
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dialogue approach is particularly pertinent to relations between Muslim and
Jewish communities, which have been greatly affected by the volatile political
situation of recent years. Jewish and Muslim people find themselves not only as
perceived enemies but also as possible partners with a common religious and
historical base and shared experiences of discrimination. Fostering dialogue
and understanding between both communities is therefore essential.
New seminar pilot project: 
Both manuals and the seminar have the generous support of the 
