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Impact of October 7 Attack and 2024 War in Gaza on Catholic–Jewish Relations
Since Nostra Aetate (Paul VI 1965b), the Catholic Church has established itself slowly but surely at the forefront of…
Read moreCardinal Pizzaballa: 'Concrete actions' needed to rebuild trust in Holy Land
The Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem speaks about October 7, his visits to the Gaza Strip, the 'Board of Peace', the two-state solution, and the situation…
Read moreGermany: Hamburg’s Altona museum opens a permanent exhibition about Hamburg Jewish history, incorporating a Jewish component in a mainstream museum
February 6, 2026 - Hamburg’s Altona Museum, one of the largest regional museums in Germany, has opened a permanent exhibition about 400 years of local…
Read moreNostra Aetate at 60: A Two‑Day Catholic-Jewish Encounter in Jerusalem
From 11–12 February 2026, the Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews (CRRJ) and the International Jewish Committee for Interreligious…
Read moreThe Fire and the Water. Christian Antisemitism, Narrative Diagnosis, and Theological Repair
The fire of antisemitism is being fed by stories that Christians tell about themselves, about Jews, and about the relationship between the two. And…
Read moreI am the child that Hitler feared
Speech on the occasion of the Day of Remembrance for the Victims of National Socialism (January 27) in the Parliament of the Federal Republic of…
Read moreCardinal Pizzaballa: 'Concrete actions' needed to rebuild trust in Holy Land
The Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem speaks about October 7, his visits to the Gaza Strip, the 'Board of Peace', the two-state solution, and the situation…
Read moreThe Fire and the Water. Christian Antisemitism, Narrative Diagnosis, and Theological Repair
The fire of antisemitism is being fed by stories that Christians tell about themselves, about Jews, and about the relationship between the two. And…
Read moreImpact of October 7 Attack and 2024 War in Gaza on Catholic–Jewish Relations
Since Nostra Aetate (Paul VI 1965b), the Catholic Church has established itself slowly but surely at the forefront of…
Read moreRevelation in concealment: toward an embodied Post-holocaust spirituality
Standing before the locked gates of a synagogue, watching young dancers rehearse on the bima where…
Read moreThe Personal Before and After the Political. Case Study of a Dialogue Methodology for Crisis
The authors of this article co-facilitated a dialogue workshop for Jewish, Christian, and Muslim communal leaders and academics in Cairo as part of…
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Book Reviews |
Matthew V. Novenson:
Paul and Judaism at the End of History
2024: Cambridge University Press
324 Pages; $39.99
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Alan M. Shore:
Uncommon Allies: American Jews and Christians Uniting against Hitler, 1933-1945
Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2024, 267 pp.…
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Carol Rittner and John K. Roth, Eds.:Stress Test: The Israel-Hamas War and Christian-Jewish RelationsPoughkeepsie: iPub Cloud International, 2025,
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Zev Garber and Kenneth L. Hanson (Ed.):
Jewish Studies and the Gospel of St John.
Cambridge Scholars Publishing: 2025. Hardcover, 200 Pages. $84.00
Pope on Holocaust Remembrance Day: Church rejects all forms of antisemitism
January 28, 2026 - Eighty-one years after the Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp was liberated, we remember the millions of lives lost to…
Read more81 years since the liberation of Auschwitz: 'Let memory become a light'
At Auschwitz-Birkenau commemorations, speakers warn against reducing memory to ritual, urging instead that it serve as a guiding light and ethical…
Read moreHoly Land Co-ordination: Stand with people of Holy Land, help foster dialogue
At the end of their annual pilgrimage to the Holy Land, the Co-ordination of Bishops' Conferences in Support of the Church in the Holy Land release a…
Read morePope: European identity closely tied to Judeo-Christian roots
10 December 2025 - Pope Leo XIV encourages members of the European Parliament to recall the EU’s Judeo-Christian roots and uphold the inherent rights…
Read moreThe Task of Nostra Aetate Is Not Yet Completed
During the celebration of the 60th anniversary of Nostra Aetate, in Rome on October 28, 2025, Sarah Bernstein shared this message of hope, truth, and…
Read more60 years on, 'Nostra Aetate' keeps informing Catholic-Jewish relations
Oct. 28 marks 60 years since the Roman Catholic Church issued Nostra Aetate, the groundbreaking declaration that rejected collective Jewish…
Read moreJustice and Peace in Palestine and Israel
Reflecting on his recent visit to the region, the Archbishop of York delivered this speech at Lambeth Palace on Nov.18, 2025, at a gathering of…
Read moreIsrael, We Need to Talk
A German Jewish Studies scholar asks both pro-Israeli and pro-Palestinian supporters to look again at the situation.
Read morePope Leo: The message of 'Nostra aetate' remains as urgent as ever
October 28, 2025 - Pope Leo XIV presides at “Walking Together in Hope,” a celebration of 60 years of “Nostra aetate”, the Second Vatican Council’s…
Read morePassover is a Jewish holiday remembering sorrowful events and celebrating hope for a better future
Jewish families will gather for Passover this year in circumstances that will, like the celebration itself, reflect on dark times while looking ahead…
Read morePost-Holocaust Theology. An overview
The Shoah (Holocaust) has raised a number of questions to which Jewish philosophers, theologians, and historians have given different answers. This…
Read moreWho wrote the Bible?
The Bible tells an overall story about the history of the world: creation, fall, redemption and God’s Last Judgement of the living and the dead.
Read moreAppeal by Christians and Jews for a Voice of Discernment and Peace
The following statement, drafted by a group of individuals committed to Jewish-Christian dialogue, issues a call for discernment and nuance in…
Read moreRededicating Ourselves to Deepening Interfaith Relationships: A Pledge Sponsored by the International Council of Christians and Jews
The First and Second World Wars killed over one hundred million people and made refugees of hundreds of millions more. Empires fell. Nations were…
Read moreICCJ-Statement: In Solidarity With Israel
10.10.2023 - A few days ago, on Shabbat morning and on the onset of Simchat Torah which was supposed to be a day of peace and joy, Israel experienced…
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 moreIJCIC Response to the World Council of Churches’ Statement on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
July 14, 2025. The International Jewish Committee for Interreligious Consultations (IJCIC) categorically denounces the World Council of Churches’…
Read moreWorld Jewish Congress Mourns Passing of Pope Francis
21 Apr 2025 - NEW YORK – Upon learning of the passing of Pope Francis, World Jewish Congress President Ronald S. Lauder said:
Read moreIJCIC repudiates charge of Israeli genocide
November 22, 2024. In light of the recent controversy arising from a comment by Pope Francis recorded in Hernán Reyes Alcaide’s “Hope Never…
Read moreFinal Communiqué of the Holy Land Co-ordination 17-21 January 2026
Thursday, January 22nd, 2026
Read more"The spirit of Nostra Aetate continues to illuminate the path of the Church"
Catechesis on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the conciliar Declaration Nostra aetate, General Audience, St Peter's Square, Rome, 29 October…
Read moreWalking together in Hope
On October 28, the Holy Father Leo XIV received in audience the participants in the meeting on “Nostra Aetate” on the occasion of its sixtieth…
Read more"Because of the Jewish roots of Christianity, all Christians have a special relationship with Judaism".
Address of the Holy Father to representatives of other churches and ecclesial communities, and other religions. Clementine Hall
Monday, 19 May 2025.
Read moreBroken Roots. What Happens When We Don’t Know Jesus’s Jewish Context
On the 16th of October, the Patriarch of Jerusalem, the highest-ranking Catholic Church clergyman in the Israel region, made an offer that shocked the…
Read moreHope for the Future - A Study Document for Renewing Jewish-Christian Relations
This study document is intended as an educational resource and reflection tool to stimulate a renewal of Jewish-Christian relations in the various LWF…
Read moreJews and Christians; becoming friends: A five-week scripture study course
This booklet is a five-week scripture study course. It is based on a course on Christianity and Judaism given alongside Stan Keller, the chairman of…
Read more"Caring for the world between us" - Greetings for the ICCJ 2023 Conference
In her welcome address, Rabbi Anisfeld hoped that the ICCJ 2023 Conference would inspire us to renew our commitment to caring for the "world between…
Read more“The Sacredness of Space and Dialogue”
His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew Keynote Remarks, on December 8 2025, at the 12th International Academic Consultation between Judaism…
Read moreJewish and Christian Reading of Psalm 1: An Anglican Perspective on a Shared Spiritual Threshold
Psalm 1, the gateway to the Book of Psalms, stands as a spiritual threshold embraced by both Jews and Christians. In the Anglican tradition, its voice…
Read moreThe Irrevocable Gifts and the Calling of God: Continuity and Discontinuity in Jewish–Christian Dialogue
In a pluralist democracy, dialogue between different religions is essential, not only for the sake of social peace and harmony and…
Read moreJerusalem: Between Reality and Vocation - A Light for Peace
Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem examines the current situation in Jerusalem and the Holy Land, highlighting the…
Read moreStatement on Gaza and Peace in the Middle East
August 4, 2025 - In Gaza, deliberately caused starvation has placed 500,000 people at immediate risk, amid the killing of over 50,000 and the…
Read moreAppeal for Peace
This appeal for peace was presented by children to religious leaders at the closing session of the international meeting ‘Imagining Peace’ organised…
Read moreThe elderly in contemporary society and their protection
Declaration of the Abrahamic Religions, Buenos Aires, Monday, August 28, 2023.
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.
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