Parashat Vayechi

A Jewish look at Christmas Christianity and Rabbinic Judaism share common origins in late Second Temple Judaism. Jesus, along with his disciples, was a Jew who observed the biblical commandments in the Torah. According to the Gospel accounts, particularly the Synoptic Gospels, his actions and teachings were based on the same scriptural sources as those studied by the rabbis. The texts regarded as sacred by Jesus and his disciples were also considered sacred by the rabbis. Bot

The Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews and the Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue organized a celebratory event to mark the 60th anniversary of the promulgation of Nostra Aetate. This event took place on October 28, 2025, in the Paul VI Hall at the Vatican. The following morning, Wednesday, October 29, Pope Leo XIV dedicated the General Audience to this significant anniversary and reflected on the positive outcomes resulting from the reception of Nostra Aetat

Speech delivered at DARING PEACE - International meeting for Peace, organised by SANT'EGIDIO. Rome, October 26th - 28th, 2025. On these days, the sixtieth anniversary of the promulgation of the conciliar document Nostra Aetate  by Pope Paul VI, which had initially been commissioned by Pope John XXIII, is celebrated. Its Chapter IV marked a turning point in the 2,000 years of Jewish-Christian relations, on the one hand, and was the Catholic response to the Shoah , on the other

When the Jerusalem Temple still stood, the rituals to be performed on Yom Kippur had two central figures and two specific places.

Rosh Hashanah, whose literal translation from Hebrew is the "head" or "beginning" of a new year, is connected to b’reshit, "in the beginning," the first word in the Hebrew Bible that begins the story of Creation. Rosh and Reshit have the same Hebrew consonantal root (reish-alef-shin).

Hiroshima eighty years later    The Hebrew Bible certainly has three main protagonists in its 24 books: God, the people of Israel, and...

When Jorge Mario Bergoglio was elected the 266th Pope of the Catholic Church on March 13, 2013, I didn’t need to travel to Rome to feel...

As soon as he was elected Pope, Francis called me on the phone and gave me the email address we could use to keep in touch with each...

Reflections for Pesach and Easter 5785 / 2025 The foundational event that transformed the Benei Israel into a people was their liberation...