September 13, 2005
A French Protestant leader has said that relations between his group and French Jews were improving. Jean-Arnold de Clermont, the president of the Protestant Federation of France, made his comments in an interview this month in "Reform", his organization's periodical. He announced that a commission of theological research would be founded as a collaboration between the Protestant Federation and the Consistoire, the umbrella group of religious French Jewish organizations. Dina Azoulay, an official with the French Jewish umbrella group CRIF who is responsible for relations with Protestants, said Clermont’s comments were particularly important because he had been a strong supporter of the Palestinian cause in the past. A joint Protestant-Jewish trip to Israel is being organized by CRIF for late November.
