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We publish here an extract from the book of Cardinal Jean-Marie Lustiger (1926-2007), Archbishop of Paris, prominent Jewish Catholic. The priests of the Saint James Vicariate meditated his thoughts during their annual retreat in October 2016.

We publish here an extract from the book of Cardinal Jean-Marie Lustiger (1926-2007), Archbishop of Paris, prominent Jewish Catholic. The priests of the Saint James Vicariate meditated his thoughts during their annual retreat in October 2016.

We publish here an extract from the book of Cardinal Jean-Marie Lustiger (1926-2007), Archbishop of Paris, prominent Jewish Catholic. The priests of the Saint James Vicariate meditated his thoughts during their annual retreat in October 2016.

The Israeli national religious newspaper, “Mekor Rishon”, published a long article on the change in the Catholic Church with regard to the Jewish people in its Friday edition of April 8, 2016.

On April 7, 2016, the Catholic-Jewish Liaison Committee published a joint declaration after its meeting in Warsaw. This body brings together the International Jewish Committee on Interreligious Consultations (IJCIC) and the Vatican's Commission for Religious Relations With the Jews.

Statement for Holocaust Remembrance Day (January 27, 2016) of Monsignor Janusz Urbanczyk, Permanent Representative of the Holy See at the 1086th meeting of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, delivered on January 21, 2016.

The joint statement on the meeting of the Bilateral Commission of the Delegations of the Chief Rabbinate of Israel and the Holy See’s Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews was published on December 17, 2015 after two days of meeting in Jerusalem.

On Thursday, December 10, 2015, the Holy See’s Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews published a new document on the relations between Jews and Catholics.

On December 3, 2015, a group of Orthodox rabbis published a statement on Christianity in the light of the deepening dialogue between Jews and Christians:

In a ceremony on Monday, November 23, 2015 in Paris, the leaders of French Jewry published a document on Jewish-Catholic relations and presented it to Cardinal Andre Vingt-Trois, Archbishop of Paris.

A film made by the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue celebrates the 50th anniversary of Nostra aetate.

A new book has been published on the Gospel of Saint John by Dr. Eli Lizorkin-Eyzenberg.

T. was pleasantly surprised to witness an interfaith encounter on Zion Square.

The Bilateral Commission Meeting of the delegations of the Chief Rabbinate and the Holy See's Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews took place in Jerusalem on April 29 and 30, 2013. The delegates issued a joint statement.

The Helsinki Consultation is a groundbreaking collaboration which brings together respected scholars – all of them Jewish – from a wide range of Jesus-believing traditions. They will hold their annual meeting in Berlin from June 29 until July 1, 2012.

Sister Gemma from the Jerusalem kehilla has sent us a very useful link to a calendar for the new year.

A new internet journal provides fascinating articles from a wide variety of scholars.

In his interview with Henrique Cymerman, published on YNET in English on Friday, November 28, 2014, Pope Francis told the following joke:

Yochi Brandes, well known Israeli writer, published these reflections on her visit to Poland in the daily Yisrael HaYom on October 25, 2013.

On October 31, 2013, HaAretz newspaper in English published an article by a Jewish rabbi, Dr. Eliyahu Fink, about prayer in the family. The article is fascinating also for Catholic readers.