Articles
William Henry Bartlett: 19th-Century Anglican Student of Jerusalem
Read moreFor those who do not have – or who do not have access to – William H. Bartlett’s Walks About the City and Environs of Jerusalem, this is a…
Leading Jewish Voices on the Environment
Read moreEven though there are various ‘Chief Rabbis’ (and not one but two in Israel!), the Jewish community does not operate with a hierarchy and a…
Philanthropy – just giving?
Read moreThe super-rich give billions of pounds every year to the poor. But the bond of mutual respect between giver and receiver has been lost. The…
Can Those Chosen by God Dialogue with Others?
Read moreIn a well-known typology of encounter between religions that has become a standard among religious dialogicians, Alan Race first mentions…
Guilt and the Transformation of Christian-Jewish Relations [1]
Read moreWhat happens when attention is shifted from forgiveness to guilt, from reconciliation to sin? Guilt and forgiveness, sin and redemption are…
The providential mystery of the friendship between Jews and Christians
Read moreArchbishop Pierre d'Ornellas*, Archbishop of Rennes, received the Prix de l'Amitié Judéo-Chrétienne de France, which was presented to him on…
Fundamentalism: A Jewish Perspective
Read morePRECIS: In this paper, by comparing a contemporary fundamentalist Jewish concept – Da`at Torah (“the Opinion of the Torah”) – with the Roman…
Bach Passions and Jewish-Christian Relations
Read moreCan the Bach Passions do anything for Jewish–Christian relations, not just on the basis of the magnificence of Bach’s music, but taking into…
Why Jews Don't Proselytize
Read moreThe ancestors of the biblical Israelites, like all the other communities of the ancient Near East, were idol worshippers. We know quite a…
Pope Pius XII’s Refusal to Publicly Condemn the Holocaust
Read moreIn 2007, the beatification process of Pope Pius XII was met with protests by Jewish and Catholic leaders alike. The point of contention was…