Criticism leads Canadian Jewish Congress to pull out of interfaith group. (News Scan).Canada's most prominent Jewish organization has withdrawn its participation of 30 years from an interfaith consultation following the appearance of a Web site message critical of Israeli policy written by a church dialogue partner. The Canadian Jewish Congress The Canadian Jewish Congress is an umbrella group of Jewish organizations in Canada and constitutes one of the main lobby groups for the Jewish community in the country though it often competes with the more conservative B'nai Brith Canada in that regard. (CJC CJC Canadian Jewish Congress (Congrès Juif Canadien) CJC Criminal Justice Commission (Queensland, Australia) CJC Canadian Judicial Council CJC Criminal Justice Center CJC Commission on Judicial Conduct ) announced on April 10 that it was pulling out of the Canadian Christian Jewish Consultation (CCJC CCJC Church Council on Justice and Corrections (Canada) ), citing a message on the Anglican Church of Canada Web site as "the straw the broke the camel's back." In announcing the Jewish Congress's decision, its national president, Keith Landry, described the Anglican statement as blaming the plight of the Palestinian people For other uses of "Palestinian", see Definitions of Palestine and Palestinian. Palestinian people (Arabic: الشعب الفلسطيني, and the current crisis solely on Israel while saying nothing about holding "the corrupt and despotic Palestinian Authority accountable for the misery of its own people." (ENI) |
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