Editing Dabru Emet (section)

== Christian reaction ==
The European [[Lutheran]] Commission on the Church and the Jewish People (Lutherische Europäische Kommission Kirche und Judentum, LEKKJ), an [[umbrella organization]] representing twenty-five Lutheran church bodies in Europe, issued on May 12, 2003 ''A Response to Dabru Emet'':<ref>{{cite press release|title=A Response to Dabru Emet |publisher=[[International Council of Christians and Jews]] |date=2003-06-01 |url=http://www.jcrelations.net/en/?item=1981 |accessdate=2008-12-01 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100407231840/http://www.jcrelations.net/en/?item=1981 |archivedate=2010-04-07 }}</ref>

{{Blockquote|In its Driebergen Declaration (1991), the European Lutheran Commission on the Church and the Jewish People… rejected the traditional Christian “teaching of contempt” towards Jews and Judaism, and in particular, the anti-Jewish writings of [[Martin Luther]], and it called for the reformation of church practice in the light of these insights. Against this background, LEKKJ welcomes the issuance of Dabru Emet: A Jewish Statement on Christians and Christianity. We see in this statement a confirmation of our own work of these past years… We know that we must reexamine themes in Lutheran theology that in the past have repeatedly given rise to enmity towards Jews… Fully aware that ''Dabru Emet'' is in the first instance an intra-Jewish invitation to conversation, we see in this statement also an aid to us in expressing and living out our faith in such a way that we do not denigrate Jews, but rather respect them in their otherness, and are enabled to give an account of our own identity more clearly as we scrutinize it in the light of how others see us.}}