James Rudin
The most intriguing books on religion we read in 2022
By RNS staff — December 21, 2022
(RNS) — Pushing the boundaries of what faith can and should be, this year’s best religion and spirituality reads offer everything except predictability.
As a rabbi, he worked on Jewish-Catholic relations. Now the pope is knighting him.
By Yonat Shimron — November 1, 2022
(RNS) — A Reform rabbi and a longtime columnist for Religion News Service, James Rudin has met with popes, presidents and world-famous evangelists in his efforts to improve Jewish-Christian relations.
Rabbi James Rudin’s memoir recounts the interfaith movement’s hits and misses
By Yonat Shimron — May 30, 2022
(RNS) — In the book, 'The People in the Room: Rabbis, Nuns, Pastors, Popes, and Presidents,' Rudin writes about his favorite collaborators, the challenges of cultivating pluralism and the future of interfaith relations.
9/11 became a catalyst for interfaith relations and cooperation
By Adelle M. Banks — September 9, 2021
(RNS) — Though anti-Muslim sentiments grew in the wake of 9/11, another legacy of that historic day is the evolution and advancement of interfaith cooperation in the United States.
He’s not a rabbi, and it’s not Judaism
By Jeffrey Salkin — October 31, 2018
What happened in Pittsburgh was anti-Semitic. What happened in Michigan was anti-Judaism.
Billy Graham leaves a positive interfaith legacy, with a few blemishes
By Holly Lebowitz Rossi — February 21, 2018
(RNS) — One of them was his anti-Semitic remarks made in a taped conversation with President Nixon.
COMMENTARY: Father Abraham and the Jews
By A. James Rudin — February 21, 2013
(RNS) Steven Spielberg’s "Lincoln'' will probably pick up a few Oscars on Sunday, and it shows that Americans will never tire of our 16th president. While the film centers on the fight to abolish slavery in 1865, two years earlier Lincoln used his powers to correct another injustice aimed at American Jews.
COMMENTARY: Joseph Ratzinger, the last of the traditional popes
By A. James Rudin — February 14, 2013
(RNS) Joseph Ratzinger perhaps will be best remembered as a quiet theologian and intellectual. But he was not, as some critics charge, a ``transitional'' pope.
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