Articles
How Jan. 27 came to be International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust
Read moreThe choice of January 27 as the day of commemoration is the result of relatively recent initiatives by non-Jews. Without abandoning this now…
Who are you without memory?
Read more27.01.2025 - Address of the director of the Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau at the commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the…
Post-Holocaust Theology. An overview
Read moreThe Shoah (Holocaust) has raised a number of questions to which Jewish philosophers, theologians, and historians have given different…
Suffering and Hope
Read moreReflections in a Time of Wars, Enmities, and Seasons of Festivals of Light offered by members of ICCJ's Theology Committee.
Unfulfilled Promise. Pope Francis and the Israel-Hamas war
Read morePope Francis has called for an investigation to determine if Israel’s operation in Gaza constitutes genocide, according to a new book…
How the state of Israel became ‘the Jew’ writ large
Read moreIt has long been well-known that interest in Israel and its conflict with Palestinians and with Arabs and Muslims in the region is extremely…
This war is also a turning point in interreligious dialog
Read moreStatement by Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa OFM, Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, at the press conference ‘A conflagration in the Middle…
Onkelos and the Tree(s)
Read moreIn his Guide of the Perplexed I:27, Rambam (Moses Maimonides, 1138-1204) wrote:
Onkelos the Proselyte was highly adept in Syriac and…
Rabbi David Meyer: 'October 7 revealed Jews' great solitude'
Read moreFranco-Israeli Rabbi and author David Meyer, a leading figure of the liberal Jewish movement in France, shares his reflections with Vatican…
The very name of God is peace
Read moreSpeech by Andrea Riccardi, historian and founder of the Community of Sant'Egidio, at the opening session of the international meeting…