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.

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.

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.

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.