Articles
"The settlers are not the problem"
Read moreShlomo Riskin (born May 28, 1940) was the founding rabbi of Lincoln Square Synagogue on the Upper West Side in New York City, Chief founding…
Talking through walls in NYC
Read moreWashington, DC - This year, on the ninth anniversary of the 11 September attacks, many Americans were scared that violence would ensue as a…
John Paul II, Lower Manhattan and the Power of Religious Symbolism
Read moreThe recent controversy over the proposed construction of an Islamic center and mosque in Lower Manhattan has raised unsettling questions…
The Palestinian "Kairos" Document.
Read moreThe self-styled "Kairos Palestine" document was launched in Bethlehem on December 11, 2009 by a panel chaired by the former Latin Patriarch…
Israel and Judaism’s future
Read moreThere were many people, both in Israel and abroad, who believed – and continue to believe – that the fundamental purpose of the State of…
Bishops meeting Rabbis
Read moreSince 2006 representatives of the Catholic Bishops' Conference and the Protestant Church of Germany have met annually with representatives…
New Testament Aspects of Trinitarian Language
Read moreIt seems to me that it is time and indispensable to describe the relationship of the Church to Israel in a trinitarian perspective.* And…
2009 - An Eventful Year of Jewish-Christian Dialogue
Read moreIn 2009 the Jewish-Christian dialogue was severely disturbed and repeatedly beset by various irritations, not least by the topic of…
Radical Covenant: Jews, Christians and the Politics of Neo-Liberalism
Read moreFor nearly three decades the culture of Britain’s welfare state has been transformed by an ideology that privileges competitive…
I am liberated by the God of Israel
Read moreI turned sixteen in early December 1944 and my school class had already shrunk, the oldest one of us already killed in action. During our…