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Jewish-Christian Identities in Conflict: The Cases of Fr. Daniel Rufeisen and Fr. Elias Friedman
The status of Jewish identity in cases of conversion to another religion is a contentious issue and was brought to the forefront of public attention…
Read moreReligious leadership in the 21st century
HAIFA - On May 17th, 2023, His Beatitude Pierbattista Pizzaballa, Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, participated in a conference organized by the Haifa…
Read morePope: Rabbi Skorka shows that 'faith and human rights are not in conflict'
May 10, 2023 - As the Department of Theology of the University of Trnava, in Slovakia, confers an honorary doctorate on Argentinean writer and…
Read moreInterreligious March in Jerusalem
An interreligious walk took place in Jerusalem on May 10th. Fr. Piotr and Fr. Roman, as well as some members of Kehilat Jerusalem participated in this…
Read moreA Rabbi and an Imam: Living in a time of religious illiteracy
2023-02-23. Schlomo Hofmeister has been the municipal rabbi of Vienna since 2008. Tarafa Baghajati is the imam and chairman of the “Initiative of…
Read moreInterreligious March in Jerusalem
An interreligious walk took place in Jerusalem on May 10th. Fr. Piotr and Fr. Roman, as well as some members of Kehilat Jerusalem participated in this…
Read moreJewish-Christian Identities in Conflict: The Cases of Fr. Daniel Rufeisen and Fr. Elias Friedman
The status of Jewish identity in cases of conversion to another religion is a contentious issue and was brought to the forefront of public attention…
Read moreThe Religious (Jewish) Other in Christianity: Some Theological Considerations
When a Christian – and, particularly, Protestant – theologian, like myself, explores the question of what Christianity says about the religious, and…
Read moreThe Cruelty of Supersessionism: The Case of Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The impact of the Shoah on Christian biblical and theological studies has been significant. The Christian doctrine of supersessionism, the replacement…
Read moreThe Origins of Anti-Jewish Rhetoric in the Hymns of Good Friday
The oldest-surviving Christian hymns designed exclusively for Holy Week are a set known as the Idiomele. In the modern Orthodox Church, they are sung…
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Book Reviews |
Justo L. González:
The Bible in the Early Church
Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2022
Paperback, 204 p, $ 19.90
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Joseph Sievers and Amy-Jill Levine, Eds.:
The Pharisees.
Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2021, hardcover, xxiii + 482 pp.
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Gerald R. McDermott, Ed.: Understanding the Jewish Roots of Christianity: Biblical, Theological, and Historical Essays on the Relationship between…
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Ephraim Chamiel: Between Religion and Reason (Part II). The Position against Contradiction between Reason and Revelation in Contemporary Jewish…
Poles, Jews and Germans commemorate Warsaw Ghetto uprising
21 April 2023. The main commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising took place in front of the Warsaw Ghetto Heroes' Memorial.…
Read moreAmerican Jewish Committee Advances Catholic-Jewish Relations with Visit to Vatican
April 2, 2023 — Vatican City. American Jewish Committee (AJC) President Michael Tichnor and CEO Ted Deutch led a leadership delegation to the Vatican.…
Read moreMoving Forward, Together: Exploring the Future of Holocaust Education at Yad Vashem’s Partnership Meeting
03/27/2023. Holocaust education currently faces a number of challenges. As the Holocaust moves further into history, we will soon be in an age where…
Read moreAmericans Feel More Positive Than Negative About Jews, Mainline Protestants, Catholics
Most are neutral toward several groups; evangelical Christians viewed negatively, on balance, by non-evangelical Americans.
Read moreOn the 10th anniversary of Pope Francis’ papacy
A Jewish Perspective.
Read moreHadamar memorial: History teaches us to be vigilant
Dr. Jan Erik Schulte, historian and Director of the Hadamar Museum reflects on the Memorial on the anniversary of the "Night of the broken glass."
Read moreProvidence and Interreligious Encounter
Jewish, Catholic, and Protestant leaders gathered for a two-day conference in Providence, Rhode Island, called the “Seminar on Human Relationships” to…
Read moreKristallnacht remembered
Sermon at Adas Israel Synagogue, Washington, DC, November 4, 1988.
Read moreUnderstanding Jesus means understanding Judaism
In 2021, the Deutsche Bibel Gesellschaft published Das Neue Testament - jüdisch Erklärt,[1] the German translation of The Jewish Annotated New…
Read more‘They Beheld God, and They Ate and Drank’
A Theological Reflection on Exodus 24:11 from the Perspective of the Dialogue between Judaism and Christianity.
Read moreThe Importance of the Jewishness of Jesus for Interpreting the Gospels
In the first part of the paper, we will address certain theological and historical reasons for the exclusion of the Jewishness of Jesus from both…
Read more"Preaching and Teaching With Love and Respect for the Jewish People."
The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America has published on its website a 56-page guide to "Preaching and Teaching With Love and Respect for the…
Read moreJewish and Catholic Approaches to the terminally ill: The Prohibited, the Permitted and the Obligatory
12.05.2023 - Joint Statement of the 17th Bilateral Commission of the Delegations of the Chief Rabbinate of Israel and the Holy See’s Commission for…
Read moreA National Reckoning of the Soul
A Call to the Churches of the United States to Confront the Crisis of Antisemitism
Read moreFight Antisemitism, Protect Jewish Life - Declaration on the 80th Anniversary of the Wannsee Conference
On the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the Wannsee Conference, influential representatives of Protestant churches and Jewish associations from…
Read moreOn the occasion of the 55th anniversary of “Nostra aetate” (no.4)
Messages of Cardinal Kurt Koch and the “International Jewish Committee for Interreligious Consultations” (IJCIC) on the occasion of the 55th…
Read moreBetween Jerusalem and Rome - כלל ופרט בין ירושלים לרומי
The Shared Universal and the Respected Particular. Reflections on 50 Years of Nostra Aetate.
Read moreTo Do the Will of Our Father in Heaven: Toward a Partnership between Jews and Christians
After nearly two millennia of mutual hostility and alienation, we Orthodox Rabbis who lead communities, institutions and seminaries in Israel, the…
Read moreDeclaration for the Upcoming Jubilee of Brotherhood
On November 23, 2015 at the Collège des Bernardins in Paris, the "Declaration for the Upcoming Jubilee of Brotherhood," signed by various persons of…
Read moreManifesto for Combating Religious Extremism
The threat posed by religious extremists is global, immediate, violent and deeply rooted in issues of identity, theology and faith. Countless…
Read moreWalking Together: Catholics with Jews in the Australian Context
Launched by the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference, March 2023.
Read moreHelping Jews and Christians to rediscover themselves as brothers, children of the same Father
Address of His Holiness to Members of "Amitié Judéo-Chrétienne de France", Consistory Hall, Monday, 12 December 2022.
Read moreU.S. Bishops’ Committee on Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs Emphasizes Recommitment to Relationship with Jewish Community
November 28, 2022. WASHINGTON - In 1965, Pope Paul VI issued the Vatican Council’s declaration about other world religions, Nostra Aetate (“In our…
Read moreFraternal dialogue is the groundwork for peace
Address of His Holiness Pope Francis to the participants iin the conference of the World Jewish Congress, Clementine Hall,
Tuesday, 22 November 2022.
Read more75 Years after Seelisberg - Defining Antisemitism
Part of a series of reflections initiated by the ICCJ on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the Seelisberg Conference (July 30 through August 5…
Read more75 Years after Seelisberg - Address from the Churches
Part of a series of reflections initiated by the ICCJ on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the Seelisberg Conference (July 30 through August 5…
Read more75 Years after Seelisberg - Reflection
Part of a series of reflections initiated by the ICCJ on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the Seelisberg Conference (July 30 through August 5…
Read more75 Years after Seelisberg: Examining The Need For A New Context In Dialogue
Part of a series of reflections initiated by the ICCJ on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the Seelisberg Conference (July 30 through August 5…
Read moreThe Image of Jews According to the Canonical Tradition of the Orthodox Church
This study attempts to analyze the canons of the Orthodox Church, which are still normative for all Orthodox Autocephalous Churches, in order to…
Read more“Children of the Devil”: John 8:44 and its Early Reception
In 1971, the first year of my BA studies at the University of Toronto, I read a powerful book that has stayed with me all these years: The Devil and…
Read moreThe Contribution of Religious Education to the Prevention of Antisemitism: An International Empirical Study
This research project is situated in the Europe-wide discussion on historical remembrance and the challenges of antisemitism today. The specific…
Read morePsalm 27 and Teshuvah: an Interpretation
A custom widely followed among traditionally observant Jews is to recite Psalm 27 at the conclusion of the morning and evening services during the…
Read moreNo one is saved alone
Final communique at the International Meeting of Prayer for Peace between the large world religions, October 20, 2020, Rome.
Read moreUrgent Action Needed to Prevent COVID-19
March 25th, 2020. The COVID-19 virus presents the entire world with a series of humanitarian, financial, social and political challenges, which do not…
Read moreDeclaration of the 10th World Assembly of Religions for Peace
Lindau, Germany, 23 August 2019
Read moreThe specific multi-religious character of Jerusalem / Al-Quds Acharif must be protected
Appeal by His Majesty King Mohammed VI and His Holiness Pope Francis regarding Jerusalem / Al-Quds the Holy Citiy and a place of encounter. Issued…
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