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“One Ought to Pray, Day and Night, for the Thousands”: Etty Hillesum’s Approach to Prayer and Hasidic Thought
Etty (Esther) Hillesum’s (1914–1943)* diaries, published in the Netherlands for the first time in 1981, have since been translated into 18 languages…
Read moreCardinal Welcomes Historic Muslim-Jewish Accords
12/02/2025 - Cardinal Vincent Nichols has welcomed an historic accord signed by senior Muslim and Jewish denominational leaders in the UK, which marks…
Read moreThe Guide and its Guide: A review essay
The Guide to the Perplexed: A New Translation
By Lenn E. Goodman and Phillip I. Lieberman
(Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2024)
Lenn E. Goodman
A…
Israeli Jesuit David Neuhaus: the plan to remove Palestinians from Gaza feels like a kick in the stomach
February 20th, 2025 Jerusalem – “We are in no hurry”. This is how US President Donald Trump yesterday offered an important detail regarding the plan…
Read moreWho are you without memory?
27.01.2025 - Address of the director of the Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau at the commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the German…
Read moreCardinal Welcomes Historic Muslim-Jewish Accords
12/02/2025 - Cardinal Vincent Nichols has welcomed an historic accord signed by senior Muslim and Jewish denominational leaders in the UK, which marks…
Read moreThe Guide and its Guide: A review essay
The Guide to the Perplexed: A New Translation
By Lenn E. Goodman and Phillip I. Lieberman
(Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2024)
Lenn E. Goodman
A…
“One Ought to Pray, Day and Night, for the Thousands”: Etty Hillesum’s Approach to Prayer and Hasidic Thought
Etty (Esther) Hillesum’s (1914–1943)* diaries, published in the Netherlands for the first time in 1981, have since been translated into 18 languages…
Read moreHow Jan. 27 came to be International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust
The choice of January 27 as the day of commemoration is the result of relatively recent initiatives by non-Jews. Without abandoning this now…
Read moreUnfulfilled Promise. Pope Francis and the Israel-Hamas war
Pope Francis has called for an investigation to determine if Israel’s operation in Gaza constitutes genocide, according to a new book published for…
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Book Reviews |
Anders Runesson:
Judaism for Gentiles: Reading Paul Beyond the Parting of the Ways Paradigm
Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament 494
Tüb…
Book Reviews |
The Guide to the Perplexed: A New Translation
By Lenn E. Goodman and Phillip I. Lieberman
(Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2024)
Lenn E. Goodman
A…
Book Reviews |
Doris L. Bergen:
Between God and Hitler: Military Chaplains in Nazi Germany
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023, 334 pp.
Book Reviews |
Paul J. Griffiths:
Israel: A Christian Grammar.
Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2023
soft cover, xvii+242pp., $ 20,-
Auschwitz anniversary: Call to memory and hope
In the Polish village of Harmeze, prayer intertwines with the memory of those who suffered and perished in the German Nazi concentration and…
Read more‘Hold fast to our common humanity’: UN marks 80 years since death camps were liberated
27 January 2025 - Hate continues to grow at an alarming speed, and the world must do more to fight growing antisemitism the UN Secretary-General said…
Read moreChristmas Message – 2024
Statement from the Patriarchs and Heads of the Churches in Jerusalem.
Read moreNew Glossary Breaks Ground in Tackling Antisemitism Through a Catholic Lens
December 11, 2024. The American Jewish Committee (AJC), in partnership with the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops' (USCCB) Committee on…
Read moreSuffering and Hope
Reflections in a Time of Wars, Enmities, and Seasons of Festivals of Light offered by members of ICCJ's Theology Committee.
Read moreThis war is also a turning point in interreligious dialog
Statement by Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa OFM, Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, at the press conference ‘A conflagration in the Middle East: On the…
Read moreRabbi David Meyer: 'October 7 revealed Jews' great solitude'
Franco-Israeli Rabbi and author David Meyer, a leading figure of the liberal Jewish movement in France, shares his reflections with Vatican News on…
Read moreThe very name of God is peace
Speech by Andrea Riccardi, historian and founder of the Community of Sant'Egidio, at the opening session of the international meeting ‘Imagining…
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 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 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 moreA National Reckoning of the Soul
A Call to the Churches of the United States to Confront the Crisis of Antisemitism
Read moreFight Antisemitism, Protect Jewish Life - Declaration on the 80th Anniversary of the Wannsee Conference
On the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the Wannsee Conference, influential representatives of Protestant churches and Jewish associations from…
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 moreWe extend an invitation to the Church to broaden the dialogue
February 12th, 2024 - Response to the Pope's letter, dated from 2 February 2024.
Read moreAn open letter to His Holiness, Pope Francis, and to the Faithful of the Catholic Church
November 12th, 2023
Read moreTo our fathers in the faith: you are not alone!
Since October 7, in the wake of the Hamas terrorist attacks and hostage-taking, and the subsequent military operations in Gaza, we have witnessed a…
Read moreMy heart is close to you, to the Holy Land, to all the peoples who inhabit it, Israelis and Palestinians
Vatican City, 2 February 2024 - Letter of the Holy Father to Jewish brothers and sisters in Israel.
Read more"Not weapons, not terrorism, not war, but compassion, justice and dialogue are the fitting means for building peace"
Address of His Holiness to a Delegation of the Conference of European Rabbis, 6 November 2023.
Read moreWalking Together: Catholics with Jews in the Australian Context
Launched by the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference, March 2023.
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 moreUnderstanding Jesus means understanding Judaism
In 2021, the Deutsche Bibel Gesellschaft published Das Neue Testament - jüdisch Erklärt,[1] the German translation of The Jewish Annotated New…
Read more‘They Beheld God, and They Ate and Drank’
A Theological Reflection on Exodus 24:11 from the Perspective of the Dialogue between Judaism and Christianity.
Read moreHow the state of Israel became ‘the Jew’ writ large
It has long been well-known that interest in Israel and its conflict with Palestinians and with Arabs and Muslims in the region is extremely high and…
Read moreOnkelos and the Tree(s)
In his Guide of the Perplexed I:27, Rambam (Moses Maimonides, 1138-1204) wrote:
Read moreOnkelos the Proselyte was highly adept in Syriac and Hebrew. He made…
JEWS AND CHRISTIANS. From Past to Future
It is with great pleasure that JCR announces that the book "Jews and Christians. From Past to Future" by the well known Catholic monk and Israeli…
Read moreSeeking Abraham’s God after October 7th: From Radical Antisemitism to Relational Dialogue
Abraham, the common spiritual ancestor of Jews, Christians, and Muslims, was called by God to be a blessing, not to conquer or convert (Gen. 12:1–2)[1…
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.
Read moreUrgent Action Needed to Prevent COVID-19
March 25th, 2020. The COVID-19 virus presents the entire world with a series of humanitarian, financial, social and political challenges, which do not…
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