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The Council of Christians and Jews, or CCJ, is a voluntary organisation in the United Kingdom
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
. It is composed of Christians and Jews working together to counter anti-semitism
Anti-Semitism

Antisemitism is prejudice against or hostility towards Jews.This prejudice or hostility is usually characterized by a combination of Religion, Race , cultural and ethnic group biases....
 and other forms of intolerance in Britain. Their patron is Queen Elizabeth II
Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom

Elizabeth II is the queen regnant of sixteen independent states known as the Commonwealth realms: Monarchy of the United Kingdom, Monarchy of Canada, Monarchy of Australia, Monarchy of New Zealand, Monarchy of Jamaica, Monarchy of Barbados, the Bahamas, Grenada, Papua New Guinea, the Monarchy of the Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Saint Lucia, Sain...
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The CCJ was founded, in 1942, by Chief Rabbi
Chief Rabbi

Chief Rabbi is a title given in several countries to the recognized religious leader of that country's Jewish community, or to a rabbinic leader appointed by the local secular authorities....
 Joseph H. Hertz
Joseph H. Hertz

Early lifeRabbi Dr Joseph Herman Hertz, Doctor of Laws, Order of the Companions of Honour was born in Rebrin, Hungary , and emigrated to New York City in 1884....
 and Archbishop
Archbishop of Canterbury

The Archbishop of Canterbury is the chief bishop and principal leader of the Church of England, the symbolic head of the worldwide Anglican Communion and the Diocesan Bishop of the Diocese of Canterbury, the Episcopal see that churches must be in communion with in order to be a part of the Anglican Communion....
 William Temple
William Temple (archbishop)

William Temple was a priest in the Church of England. He would serve as Bishop of Manchester , Archbishop of York , and Archbishop of Canterbury ....
 during a time of all-out warfare and Nazi
Nazism

Nazism, officially National Socialism , refers to the ideology and practices of the National Socialist German Workers? Party under Adolf Hitler, and the policies adopted by the dictatorial government of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945....
 persecution of Jews. In late 1954, the Vatican
Holy See

The Holy See is the episcopal jurisdiction of the Bishop of Rome, commonly known as the Pope, and is the preeminent episcopal see of the Roman Catholic Church, forming the central government of the Church....
 demanded that English Catholics resign from the CCJ due to its perceived indifferentism
Indifferentism

In the Catholic Church, indifferentism is a condemned Christian heresy that holds that one religion is as good as another, and that all religions are equally valid paths to salvation....
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The Council of Christians and Jews, or CCJ, is a voluntary organisation in the United Kingdom
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
. It is composed of Christians and Jews working together to counter anti-semitism
Anti-Semitism

Antisemitism is prejudice against or hostility towards Jews.This prejudice or hostility is usually characterized by a combination of Religion, Race , cultural and ethnic group biases....
 and other forms of intolerance in Britain. Their patron is Queen Elizabeth II
Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom

Elizabeth II is the queen regnant of sixteen independent states known as the Commonwealth realms: Monarchy of the United Kingdom, Monarchy of Canada, Monarchy of Australia, Monarchy of New Zealand, Monarchy of Jamaica, Monarchy of Barbados, the Bahamas, Grenada, Papua New Guinea, the Monarchy of the Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Saint Lucia, Sain...
.

The CCJ was founded, in 1942, by Chief Rabbi
Chief Rabbi

Chief Rabbi is a title given in several countries to the recognized religious leader of that country's Jewish community, or to a rabbinic leader appointed by the local secular authorities....
 Joseph H. Hertz
Joseph H. Hertz

Early lifeRabbi Dr Joseph Herman Hertz, Doctor of Laws, Order of the Companions of Honour was born in Rebrin, Hungary , and emigrated to New York City in 1884....
 and Archbishop
Archbishop of Canterbury

The Archbishop of Canterbury is the chief bishop and principal leader of the Church of England, the symbolic head of the worldwide Anglican Communion and the Diocesan Bishop of the Diocese of Canterbury, the Episcopal see that churches must be in communion with in order to be a part of the Anglican Communion....
 William Temple
William Temple (archbishop)

William Temple was a priest in the Church of England. He would serve as Bishop of Manchester , Archbishop of York , and Archbishop of Canterbury ....
 during a time of all-out warfare and Nazi
Nazism

Nazism, officially National Socialism , refers to the ideology and practices of the National Socialist German Workers? Party under Adolf Hitler, and the policies adopted by the dictatorial government of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945....
 persecution of Jews. In late 1954, the Vatican
Holy See

The Holy See is the episcopal jurisdiction of the Bishop of Rome, commonly known as the Pope, and is the preeminent episcopal see of the Roman Catholic Church, forming the central government of the Church....
 demanded that English Catholics resign from the CCJ due to its perceived indifferentism
Indifferentism

In the Catholic Church, indifferentism is a condemned Christian heresy that holds that one religion is as good as another, and that all religions are equally valid paths to salvation....
.

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