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MS 65 A755 Papers of the Council of Christians and Jews: Additional 1 MS 65 A755 Papers of the Council of Christians and Jews: Additional 1996 1 Newspaper articles relating to: anti-Semitism, neo-nazis, refugees, 1992 asylum-seekers, racism, Turks in Germany, Bosnian refugees, Asylum Bill, International Christian Embassy Jerusalem (ICEJ), women priests and bishops, John Gummer, Bob Jones University (South Carolina), Dr George Carey (Archbishop of Canterbury), General Synod, Church of England, Decade of Evangelism, Euthanasia, President Francois Mitterand, Jean-Marie Le Pen, blessings of homosexual relationships, Germany, Helmut Kohl, rallies, Channel Islands relations with the Nazis during their occupation, Holocaust, Hitler, Janina David, Primo Levi, Israel, Mordechai Vanunu, Yitzhak Rabin (Prime Minister of Israel), Palestine Liberation Organisation, Hizbollah (Party of God), Lebanon, Edward Said, peace talks, Jews, Jewish culture 2 Newspaper articles relating to: Robert Maxwell, Kevin Maxwell, 1992 Ian Maxwell, Muslims, obituaries of Clifford Barclay and Revd Oliver Tomkins, United Arab Emirates, Middle East, Jordan, King Hussein of Jordan, Shimon Peres, Egypt, Yasser Arafat, Saddam Hussein, Sunday trading, Parliament, the homeless, publications, religious books, H.G.Wells, Dead Sea Scrolls book, terrorism, Catholic schools, religious education, the Vatican, Pope John Paul II, Roman Catholics, Galileo Galilei, Moscow, President Boris Yeltsin, Yugoslavia, Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, "ethnic cleansing", Tony Bland, legal mercy killing, women priests, Umberto Bossi 3 Newspaper articles relating to: anti-Semitism, Hungary, The 1994 Merchant of Venice, Captain Alfred Dreyfuss, asylum-seekers, book reviews, Bosnia, Gorazde, NATO, Russia, role of the USA in Bosnia, Boris Yeltsin, Ratko Mladic, Zlata's diary: a child's life in Sarajevo by Zlata Filipovic, CCJ, Don Cupitt, the church's opinion of Prince Charles, religious faiths, women priests, conversion, Richard Dawkins, Church of England, Dr George Carey (Archbishop of Canterbury), terrorism, far right movements, British National Party, Silvio Berlusconi, fascism, Italy, Germany, Vladimir Wolfovich Zhirinovsky, Russia, fundamentalism, Muslims, Algiers, Egypt, Sudan 4 Newspaper articles relating to: Holocaust, the film of Schindler's 1994 List by Steven Spielberg, Paul Touvier, Israel, inter-faith, Hebron massacre, Palestine Liberation Organisation, Gaza, Jericho, Yasser Arafat, Hamas, Yitzhak Rabin, Shimon Peres, peace talks, Douglas Hurd, Golan Heights, President Hafez al-Assad 5 Newspaper articles relating to: Jewish-Chrisitian relations, Jews, 1994 Shimon Peres, Emanuel Litvinoff, Jewish culture, Middle East, Sadam Hussein, missionary activity, Muslims, Schindler's List by Steven Spielberg, Islam, Rascism in Europe, British National Party, neo-nazis, Germany, obituaries of Harry La Fontaine, Haik Hovespian Mehr, Nakdimon Doniach, Abbot Dominic Gaisford, Ruth Jordan, Aharon Remez, Cardinal Francois Marty, Joseph Goebbels, Sir Michael Hadow, Werner Mayer, Frederick Copleston, Johan Jorgen Holst, Rudolf Schwarz, William Shirer, and Jon Kimche, William Churchill, religious education, John Patten, Roman Catholics, Vatican, priests, Cardinal Basil Hume, Duchess of Kent converts to Catholicism, Paul Touvier, war crimes, Wilhelm Mohnke, women priests, Sunday trading, MS 65 Additional 1996 2 Orthodox Christians 6 Newspaper articles relating to: Yugoslavia, Vatican, Pope John 1992-3 Paul II, religious education, racism, terrorism, violence, ethnic minorities, Germany, neo-nazis, book reviews, politicians, obituaries of Harold Soref, Father William Kahle, Hans Jonas, Saad a-Din el-Alami (Mufti of Jerusalem), Axel von dem Bussche, and Helen Kroger, Muslims, Middle East, Egypt, Palestine Liberation Organisation, peace talks, Syria, Warren Christopher (American Secretary of State), Iraq, Israel, Jews, Jewish culture, Yitzhak Rabin (Israel's Prime Minister), Zionism, Gaza, Edward Said, deportations 7 Newspaper articles relating to: anti-Semitism, asylum-seekers, 1992-3 religious faith, Church of England, Tony Bland, euthanasia, Germany, Channel Islands during Nazi occupation, Jews, Jewish culture, Middle East, Saddam Hussein, President Francois Mitterand, Israel, Palestine Liberation Organisation, Hamas (Islamic Resistance Movement), Gaza, deportations, Yitzhak Rabin, Palestinian `intifada', obituares of Prof Jacob Peter Mayer, Revd Alan Ecclestone, and Mosche Bar-Kochba, violence, Muslims, Hindus, Churchill: the end of glory by John Charmley, Parliament, Sunday trading, book reviews 8 Newspaper articles relating to: racism, terrorism, neo-nazis, 1992-3 religious education, Roman Catholics, Vatican, anti-Semitism, asylum-seekers, Germany, religious faiths, France, Jean-Marie Le Pen, Paul Touvier, euthanasia, Tony Bland, The Netherlands, Yugoslavia, Bosnia, Church of England, Dr John Habgood (Archbishop of York), women priests, Dr George Carey (Archbishop of Canterbury), Hitler, Holocaust, war crimes, violence. 9/1 Correspondence; agenda and minutes of the Standard Conferences Sep 1988-Jan of Local Councils Working Party Meetings; list of members of 1990 CCJ Standing Conference of Local Councils Working Party; `CCJ Annual Subscriptions - Report of Local Councils Working Party' (draft and final versions); `Support and development of Local Councils' by Joy Abbati; `Local Councils and Executive Working Party: Constitution' by Penny Faust; leaflet: `The Electoral Reform Society. Introducing STV'; list of Area Representatives and Support Groups (Keston College). 9/2 Correspondence; agenda and minutes of the Standard Conference Jun 1985-Sep of Local Councils Meetings; leaflets; programmes; 1988 Christian/Jewish Calendar; `Observations on the conduct of the AGM/Elections to the Executive of the Council of Christians and Jews' and 'CCJ Subscriptions: financial relations between local branches and central office' by Oxford CCJ; agenda and minutes of the Standing Conferences of Local Councils Working Party Meetings. 9/3 Correspondence; minutes of the Standing Conference of Local Jan 1989-Oct Councils Meetings; newspaper cuttings; Wardley Hall 1991 (Manchester); programme; `Decade of Evangelism. President's Address. Liverpool Diocesan Synod' by Revd David Sheppard, Bishop of Liverpool; agenda and minutes of the Annual General Meeting of the Association Branches; `Ancient text and modern mission' by Rabbi Dr Michael Hilton and Father Gordian Marshall. MS 65 Additional 1996 3 10/1 Correspondence; agenda and minutes of the Executive Committee Oct-Dec 1989 Meetings; Aide Memoire of Meeting held to discuss the Brief and Membership of the Israel Advisory Committee; Executive Director's Report to the Executive Committee of the CCJ; `"Impressions of Intifada" - A Critique' by Revd Dr I Levy; newspaper cuttings; `Constitution of the CCJ Adopted 1990'; minutes of the Executive Sub-committee Meetings. 10/2 Correspondence; Executive Director's Report to the Executive Feb-May 1989 Committee of the CCJ; agenda and minutes of the Executive Committee Meetings; Report of the Working Party; minutes of the Annual General Meeting of the Standing Conference of Local Councils. 10/3 Correspondence; agenda and minutes of the Executive Committee Jun-Oct 1989 Meetings; Constitution of the CCJ; Deputy Director's Report; Executive Director's Report to the Executive Committee of the CCJ; Education Officer's Report; `Briefing Paper for Group Relations Education Trust (GRET)' by Jim Richardson; minutes of the Standing Conference of Local Councils Meetings; `Observations on the Report of the Local Councils Working Party: Consitutional Questions' by Revd Dr I.Levy; newspaper articles. 11/1 Norwich branch: correspondence; agenda of the Annual General Jun 1980-Dec Meeting of the Norfolk and Norwich Branch of the CCJ; North 1991 Norfolk District Council Yearbook 1991/2; The Methodist Church East Anglian District Synod No 14 Directory 1991-2; Breckland District Council Yearbook 1991/1992; Norwich Israel and Social Society Brochure and Programme 1990-1991; Borough Council of King's Lynn and West Norfolk Members Handbook and Directory of Services 1991-1992; The Norfolk Association of Baptist Churches 163rd Annual Report 1990; list of members of Great Yarmouth Borough Council 1991; list of members of South Norfolk District Council; list of names and electoral divisions of members of Norfolk County Council; political composition of Norfolk County Council; newspaper cuttings. 11/2 North East and Tyneside branch: correspondence; `The North East Jun 1980-Apr Council of Christians and Jews Constitution. Supplemental to the 1989 National Constituion of the Council of Christians and Jews. Adopted 1987'; `Guide for Local Councils of Christians and Jews'; `Model Constitution for Local Councils of Christians and Jews'; statement of accounts (1987) of the Newcastle CCJ; list of members of the CCJ Tyneside Branch. 11/3 Nottingham branch: correspondence; leaflets; programmes; Feb 1981-Feb newspaper articles; agenda and minutes of the Standing 1991 Conference of Local Councils Meetings; list of members of CCJ Nottingham Branch. 11/4 Northampton branch: correspondence; minutes of Meeting of CCJ 1961, Jul 1989- Northampton; typescript: `Why dialogue is necessary'; list of Jun 1993 Northampton Hebrew Congregation Synagogue Members; list of local Roman Catholic clergy and convents in Northampton; leaflets; list of Primary, Secondary and Middle Schools in Northampton; launch of CCJ Northampton Branch. 12/1 Oxford branch: correspondence; leaflets; list of members of CCJ Oct 1963-Jul Oxford branch; `Observations
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