In a historic occasion, the Moses Ben Maimon Synagogue was opened in Abu Dhabi, UAE, as part of the larger Abrahamic Family House initiative to promote interfaith dialogue.

The article discusses two sessions from the AJC Virtual Global Forum 2021.

The People of the Pod podcast episode this week covers three main topics: Dr. Einat Wilf's insights on President Trump's Israeli-Palestinian peace plan and its implications for Israel's future, Rabbi David Rosen's discussion of the historic visit to Auschwitz-Birkenau by Muslim World League Secretary General Dr. Mohammad bin Abdulkarim Al-Issa and Islamic religious leaders, organized by AJC, and Melcher de Wind's reflections on his father Eddy de Wind's book "Last Stop: Auschwitz," the only novel penned inside the Auschwitz death camp after its liberation 75 years ago.

Rabbi David Rosen, Director of International Interreligious Affairs at AJC, recently attended meetings with Pope Francis and senior Church officials in the Vatican, discussing Catholic-Jewish relations and the forthcoming unsealing of WWII-era Church archives.

Jewish groups are expressing outrage over Pope Benedict XVI advancing Pope Pius XII towards sainthood, with concerns that Pius did not do enough to prevent the Holocaust.