Nostra Aetate
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.
Oberammergau Passion Play enters a new era
By Noam E. Marans and Peter A. Pettit — May 9, 2022
(RNS) — Oberammergau is no longer a capital of antisemitism.
Israel’s rabbinate asks Pope Francis to explain comments about Judaism
By Yonat Shimron — August 26, 2021
(RNS) — In a homily on Aug. 11, the pope said the Torah does not offer life, which only belief in Jesus can fulfill.
Abraham Joshua Heschel was a spiritual radical. A new documentary shows he’s more timely than ever
By Yonat Shimron — May 3, 2021
(RNS) — A Polish-born Jew from a long line of Hasidic rabbis, he immigrated to America in 1940 and quickly rose to become a leading public intellectual — a civil rights crusader, a champion of interfaith dialogue and an opponent of the Vietnam War.
The Catholic Church’s moral reckoning on Jews and the Holocaust
By Ken Jacobson — January 26, 2021
(RNS) — The evolution of church teaching has been transformative in Christian (not just Catholic) attitudes toward Jews.
55 years ago, a cardinal’s ‘special reverence’ for the Jews redeemed ‘Nostra Aetate’
By A. James Rudin — October 28, 2020
(RNS) — The proclamation sparked a systematic effort by the Catholic Church to transform its past bitter relationships with Jews and Judaism.
A gift of photos from a papal coronation opens a path for Jewish-Catholic healing
By Yonat Shimron — March 13, 2020
CARY, N.C. (RNS) — Howard Shulman didn’t know it at the time, but his donation of the photographs came just as the Vatican was opening its archives into Pope Pius XII's wartime conduct.
How the infamous Oberammergau Passion Play is evolving
By Noam E. Marans — November 21, 2019
(RNS) — For the past three decades, the most heinous anti-Jewish excesses of the world's most famous Passion play have been slowly eliminated, but more work needs to be done.
As Catholic-Jewish relations warm in Rome, they cool in Chicago
By Yonat Shimron — May 10, 2019
(RNS) — As Catholics in Rome reached out to Jews, Louis Farrakhan took the pulpit of a Catholic Church in Chicago.
Rabbi Jonathan Sacks on clearing scriptural minefields and building interfaith friendships
By Yonat Shimron — March 28, 2017
DURHAM, N.C. (RNS) On a visit to Duke University, Rabbi Jonathan Sacks talks about how the West has forgotten what religious revolution looks like and why friendship among people of different faiths counts more than interfaith agreement.
Remembering a Christian and a Jew who traced anti-Judaism to its roots
By Lauren Markoe — August 22, 2016
(RNS) How two giants in the struggle against anti-Judaism would react to increasing hostility toward Jews and Israel.
My top 10 Jewish news stories of 2015 (COMMENTARY)
By A. James Rudin — December 21, 2015
(RNS) From escalating anti-Semitic attacks in Europe to modest gains for religious equality among Israel's Jewish women, here's a list of newsy Jewish developments in 2015.
The ‘Splainer: What is ‘Nostra Aetate,’ and what does it have to do with Catholic-Jewish relations?
By Lauren Markoe — December 10, 2015
(RNS) The Vatican's new document on Jewish-Christian relations harks back to one published 50 years ago, which set the stage for increasingly warmer relations between the church and the Jewish people.
Ronald Lauder: Nostra Aetate was a ‘miracle’ for Catholic-Jewish relations
By Rosie Scammell — October 28, 2015
ROME (RNS) Marking the 50th anniversary of the declaration, 150 Jewish leaders gathered in Rome and on Wednesday took part in a papal audience.
On 50th anniversary of Nostra Aetate, a glass half full (COMMENTARY)
By A. James Rudin — October 26, 2015
(RNS) Today some historians and religious leaders believe Nostra Aetate did not go far enough. I see Nostra Aetate differently.
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