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Sunday, October 25 - Monday, October 26, 2026

Our Twenty-fifth Annual Meeting! 

 

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Hosted by the 
Milstein Center for Interreligious Dialogue, 
Jewish Theological Seminary New York, NY

SCHEDULE (subject to change)

Printable PDF File: 2026 CCJR Annual Meeting Schedule 

Sunday, October 25

12:00 - 1:30 pmArrival and Lunch
1:45 - 2:00 pm

Welcome

  • Burton Visotzky, Jewish Theological Seminary
  • Adam Gregerman, Saint Joseph's University (CCJR Chair)
2:00 - 3:30 pm

Session 1: Honoring Philip A. Cunningham, Saint Joseph's University (upon his retirement) 

  • Moderator: Adam Gregerman
  • Mary Boys, Union Theological Seminary
  • Ruth Langer, Boston College
  • Matthew Tapie, Saint Leo University 
3:30 - 4:00 pmBreak
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

Keynote Address: David Fox Sandmel, President, International Council of Christians and Jews 

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5:30 - 6:00 pmMember reception
6:00 - 8:00 pmMember Dinner and Shevet Achim Award presented to David Fox Sandmel

 

Monday, October 26 

9:00 - 10:15 am

Session 2: New Publications for Jewish-Christian Relations 

  • Moderator: Benny Bar-Levi, Saint Leo University
  • Rebecca Carter-Chand, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, Christian Internationalism and German Belonigng: The Salvation Army from Imperial Germany to Nazism (University of Wisconsin Press)
  • Daniel Joslyn-Siemiatkoski, Boston College, Resisting Anti-Judaism: Practices of Christian Solidarity (Fortress Press)
  • Mary Boys, Union Theological Seminary, Blessing of a New Dawn: Reorienting Christianity's Relation to Judaism (Orbis Press) 
10:15-10:30 amBreak
10:30- 12:00 pm

Session 3: Popular Voices and Contemporary Antisemitism 

  • Moderator: Daniel Joslyn-Siemiatkoski
  • Mark Weitzman, World Jewish Restitution Organization
  • Matthew Taylor, Georgetown University
12:00 - 1:00 pmLunch
1:00 - 2:15 pm CCJR Business Meeting 
2:15 - 2:30 pmBreak
2:30 - 4:00 pm

Session 4: Jewish-Evangelical Relations

  • Moderator: Rebecca Carter-Chand, US Holocaust Memorial Museum
  • Nick Scott-Blakely, Fuller Seminary
  • Adam Gregerman, Saint Joseph’s University
  • TBD
4:00 pmClosing 

 

CONFERENCE HOTEL 

Night Hotel Broadway, 215 West 94th Street, New York, NY 10025 (nighthotelbroadway.com)

There are sixteen rooms reserved at a special rate of $205 a night. After that an additional eight rooms are reserved at $250 a night. (There are also taxes and a $15 facilities fee.)

To reserve a room: Please email info@nighthotels.com with your name, address, phone number, and credit card information, and write that you are in the “Council of Centers” group and “2610 Council” room block. (Do not register through the hotel website.) Please add to your email: “I’m interested in either a bronze queen- or king-sized room.” There is no difference in price if you get the king-sized room; it just depends on room availability. If you do not wish to send your credit card information in the email, please include a note in your email asking the Reservations staff for a phone call back so you can provide it that way.

Rooms at this rate will be held until Sept. 30. The cancellation date without penalty is Oct. 15.

 

CONFERENCE REGISTRATION

Before you register

  • Register by September 30, 2026. Registration is $130 per person for the Twenty-Fifth Annual Meeting, October 25–26, 2026.

  • Submit one registration per person. If more than one member from your organization is attending, each attendee needs to complete and pay for their own registration — please don't register as a group on a single form.

  • Have this ready before you start: the name of the member attending, your organization and/or university (or note that you're registering as an individual member), any food allergies or dietary restrictions, and whether you're interested in car-pooling.

  • Choose how to pay: use Register and Pay Online or the QR code below to pay by card through Stripe, or use Register and Pay Offline if you'd prefer to register and pay another way.

Register and Pay Offline      Register and Pay Online

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