CHRISTIAN-JUDAIC DIALOGUE

For the second time Seventh-Day Adventists Church and Tkuma (Renascence) All-Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies have conducted the next Christian-Judaic Dialogue in Dnipropetrovsk.

As on October, 2006 when the first dialogue has been held, the facilitators of “Christian-Judaic Dialogue” in 2007 were Dr. Igor Shchupak, Director of Tkuma All-Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies, Maxim Gordienko, Pastor of Seventh Days Adventists Church, and Arey Vudka, teacher of TANAHA (Old Testament) and Hebrew.

The Dialogue organizers, who have invited interested people of different religions and confessions to participate in the meeting, set the task to unite Christians, Jews and believers of other confessions in the assembly hall of Scientists’ House for sharing their opinions and dialogue. They aimed to discuss differences and similarities between two religions – Christianity and Judaism, discover peculiarities of these regions on the stage of their origin through the excursus into the History, talk about tolerance, reciprocal respect and international relationships in modern society.

During three days (June 24-26) different subject have been discussed. The organizers have emphasized on such a painful subject as genocide of both Ukrainian people – Holodomor, 1932-1933, and Jewish people – Holocaust. The subject of Christianity and Judaism relationships in the beginning of the millennium has been also considered.

All three days of the Christian-Judaic Dialogue have been conducted accompanying by marvelous Ukrainian, Jewish and Russian music by V. Skuratovskij, A. Shkola and Klezmer Choir of Dnipropetrovsk Jewish Community Center.