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0 Antisemitism Politics

Pope Francis owes Jews an apology

Rabbi Avi Shafran in Forward · 16 Oct

Rabbi Avi Shafran critiques Pope Francis for using language in his address to Middle Eastern Catholics that historically has been interpreted as antisemitic, specifically by referencing phrases from John 8:44, which have been weaponized against Jews.

0 Politics

Chief rabbi urges pope to amend terrorism remarks

JNS · 24 Dec 2023

Chief Rabbi of Israel David Lau has called on Pope Francis to retract recent comments in which he seemed to accuse both Israel and Hamas of terrorism.

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Vatican beatifies Polish family killed for protecting Jews during the Holocaust

JNS · 14 Sep 2023

The Vatican has beatified the Ulma family from Poland, including Jzef and Wiktoria Ulma and their six children, who were recognized by Yad Vashem as Righteous Among the Nations for hiding eight Jews during the Holocaust.

0 Politics Antisemitism

AJC Passport: An Audience with the Pope

People of the Pod · 7 Mar 2019

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.

0 History Art

St. Peter’s Menorah

Fredric Brandfon in Tablet · 25 Jul 2017

A recent exhibition in the Vatican showcased a prominent display of a gold menorah as a symbol of Judaism, highlighting the cooperation between the Vatican and the Roman Jewish Community.