Category: Reflection

Reflections of JCM

14/4/2014

Humera Khan

It is easy to reflect on my experiences at JCM because the person I was on my first encounter has benefited and contributed so much to the person I am today. My first participation at the conference was by chance in 1987. There was a spare place going and I was asked to come along. It was a period in my life when I had just got involved in activism within the Muslim community, in particular setting up a women’s managed organisation, An-Nisa Society. We were passionate and confrontational, had a lot to say and were not afraid to say it and most importantly we wanted to change the world.

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What JCM has meant for me

7/4/2014

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Dr Jabal Buaben

My first encounter at the JCM was in 1985, as a ‘young’ Muslim Research Student at the Centre for the Study of Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations [CSIC], University of Birmingham. I arrived in Birmingham in 1983 to start an MA Programme in Islamic Studies and the CSIC. Being one of the original partners in the JCM experiment, the Centre used to encourage Research Students to attend the JCM Conference as part of their over-all training. At that time, the Conference was popularly known as the ‘Bendorf Conference’ since it was held in Bendorf-am-Rheine

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For me, JCM is ...

24/3/2014

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Matthias Börner

...the conversation, on an afternoon in early summer on a bench in a park, with a Jewish participant about our doubts in faith. Not a discussion, eexplanation, or defense of our religions but a very personal sharing in the Other's everyday life of faith.

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The JCM and its Consequences in my Life

3/3/2014

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by Halima Krausen

During the past decades, I have seen many bilateral and multilateral dialogue initiatives emerging all over Europe. They offer conferences, series of lectures, study circles, training programmes, or publications on various levels. But it is especially the thought of the JCM that leaves me with a warm feeling of a home that I grew up in and where I acquired some of the knowledge and confidence that I work with today.

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The ‘Bendorf Effect’

4/11/2013

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Rabbi Jonathan Keren-Black

One of my biggest concerns when I commenced studies as a student rabbi at the Leo Baeck College in London in 1983 was having to visit Germany for at least one of the JCM (Jewish Christian Muslim) annual conferences. My anxiety was all to do with Germany after the holocaust, and nothing, as far as I can recall, about interfaith encounter.

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The Impact of JCM on my Life

15/4/2013

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Katherine E. Wolff, nds

I was born in the USA, child of a non-religious Jewish father from Berlin, Germany, and a Christian mother from North Dakota, USA; I grew up as a Christian. I am a Sister of Our Lady of Sion, a Roman-Catholic congregation at the heart of whose vocation is the relationship between Christians and Jews. After beginning my life in the USA, I lived in Germany for many years, as well as in England and Italy, and since January 1999 in Israel, first in our community in Jewish West-Jerusalem and now in Kiryat Yearim just above the Arab-Muslim village of Abu Ghosh. I studied theology and worked mainly in adult education in the biblical and Jewish-Christian areas. Since 2002 I have been living as a solitary contemplative in a life marked essentially by silence and solitude.

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