What’s happening  at SCDE

The Autumn Seminars on “The Challenge of  Prophecy for Jews and Christians”  were excellent and these  proved to be very well received by all the participants. If you missed the last ones you now have the opportunityto sign up for the Spring Seminars on “Affirming the distinctive integrity of Judaism”. This series will attempt to address some of the 12 Points of Berlin.

UNTOLD STORIES : HMD2011

HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL  DAY  2011 will focus on the many stories yet untold of the murders and persecutions during the Holocaust and subsequent genocides.

It’s easy to speak  about the millions murdered and persecuted but not so easy to remember that each of the millions were individuals, someone’s mother, father, child,  friend, neighbour.

We must not shy away from these stories.  If we listen to them we can learn about the consequences of exclusion and persecution.  When we learn lessons from the past we can help towards preventing such atrocities being repeated.

Read the full theme on www.hmd.org.uk

Some Suggestions for Holocaust Memorial Day

• Join a local event
• Organise an event in your school
• Light a candle or include a prayer in your church service to remember the Shoah or Holocaust and other genocides.
• Be aware of prejudice and discrimination.

OTHER  COURSES

The course on Interfaith Dialogue : 'Engaging with the other”

has been well received on the topics of  “Life after Death in the Christian & Sikh Traditions” and also “Do we Pray to the Same God”. 

These talks will continue next term with some excellent speakers.  It is not too late to apply.

LIBRARY   NEWS

Recent Books on the Library Shelves

MEETING  JEWS – THE  STRUGGLE  TO BRING  GOD  DOWN TO  EARTH  by Marcus Braybrooke  (Christians  Aware 2010). 

A book launch was held at SCDE during Interfaith Week  and  many congratulations go to Marcus who introduces the reader to the Jewish world and its concerns.  A wide ranging book which discusses  what it means to be Jewish, the history of  British Jews and their different religious groupings.

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THE  SEPARATION OF EARLY  CHRISTIANITY FROM  JUDAISM  by Marianne Dacy, NDS  (Cambria Press 2010)
The book treats nine areas where separation of Christians from Jews took place over several  centuries and treats elements of geography, liturgy, the Jewish Christians, Passover and

Easter, Sabbath and Sunday, rabbinical comments  and archeology.  Two over-riding areas forced the separation, the developing Christian ideas on Christology and the non practice of Jewish Law.
On 6th September Marianne had the joy of a book launch in Jerusalem hosted by ICCI    (International Council of Israel) and the Sisters of Sion.

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OSCAR  SCHINDLER;  STEPPING  STONE TO LIFE 

by Robin O’Neil published by susaneking.com  

(ISBN; 978-0-   9845943-1-3)

This book is a Reconstruction of the Schindler Story.  297 of Schindler’s women entered Auschwitz-Birkenau.  Some four weeks later, 297 women left Auschwitz-Birkenau en –route to the safety of Schindler’s Brunnlitz camp.  This was the only group of women (1940-1945) to have beaten the gas chambers of Auschwitz-Birkenau.