Pope Francis meets his Jewish friends

These friends constituted a delegation of 15 Jewish leaders from his native Argentina and they were invited for an informal kosher lunch at the Vatican’s Santa Marta guesthouse.

The conversation with the pontiff focused on strengthening interfaith dialogue, according to Claudio Epelman, executive director of the Latin American Jewish Congress.

At the end of the lunch, the group chanted Psalm 133 in Hebrew, which says, “How good and pleasant it is when God’s people live together in unity!”