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Review essay of Mel Scult, The Religious Humanism of Mordecai Kaplan: An Anthology (Mosaic Press, 2026).

The composition of the Nicene Creed – technically the “Nicaeno-Constantinopolitan Creed,” as the statement of faith first drafted at Nicaea in 325 was…

In spring 2023 the Orthodox Theological Society in America (OTSA) launched a significant new initiative aimed at addressing one of the most enduring…

Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a Christian pacifist who believed Jesus Christ taught nonviolence, yet Bonhoeffer was involved in a conspiracy to assassinate…

I will speak from my experience. Long before I was ordained an Anglican priest, I was already in the habit of organising visits to different Houses of…

I want to thank the ICCJ for giving me the opportunity to wish my friends and colleagues best wishes for healthy and happy festivals.

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…

During the celebration of the 60^th anniversary of Nostra Aetate, in Rome on October 28, 2025, Sarah Bernstein shared this message of hope, truth, and…

Exodus gives us the reason for the Passover meal and its original instructions. Deuteronomy later directs Israel to sacrifice and eat the meal at the…

General Introduction to the Topic: the encounters of Orthodox Christianity and Judaism

Orthodox Christianity is often seen as the Christian tradition…

History, Developments and Objectives

Focus on the Geneva Initiative, Hinuch le Shalom and the Palestinian Peace Coalition.

The following statement, drafted by a group of individuals committed to Jewish-Christian dialogue, issues a call for discernment and nuance in…

The First and Second World Wars killed over one hundred million people and made refugees of hundreds of millions more. Empires fell. Nations were…

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…

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…

July 14, 2025. The International Jewish Committee for Interreligious Consultations (IJCIC) categorically denounces the World Council of Churches’…

21 Apr 2025 - NEW YORK – Upon learning of the passing of Pope Francis, World Jewish Congress President Ronald S. Lauder said:

November 22, 2024. In light of the recent controversy arising from a comment by Pope Francis recorded in Hernán Reyes Alcaide’s “Hope Never…

6 May 2024

Sixty Years of Interreligious Dialogue and Fraternity in the Light of the Conciliar Declaration Nostra Aetate.

Thursday, January 22nd, 2026

Catechesis on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the conciliar Declaration Nostra aetate, General Audience, St Peter's Square, Rome, 29 October…

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…

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…

Jewish families will gather for Passover this year in circumstances that will, like the celebration itself, reflect on dark times while looking ahead…

The Shoah (Holocaust) has raised a number of questions to which Jewish philosophers, theologians, and historians have given different answers. This…

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.

In Orthodox Christian tradition, the feast we are discussing today is called Pascha, which is simply the Greek form of Pesach.

The fire of antisemitism is being fed by stories that Christians tell about themselves, about Jews, and about the relationship between the two. And…

 1. An Inflection Point

Since Nostra Aetate (Paul VI 1965b), the Catholic Church has established itself slowly but surely at the forefront of…

1. Introduction: The Locked Gates of Understanding

Standing before the locked gates of a synagogue, watching young dancers rehearse on the bima where…

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…

This appeal for peace was presented by children to religious leaders at the closing session of the international meeting ‘Imagining Peace’ organised…

Declaration of the Abrahamic Religions, Buenos Aires, Monday, August 28, 2023.

Final communique at the International Meeting of Prayer for Peace between the large world religions, October 20, 2020, Rome.