Jewish Saint Causes Stir
by Eric J. Greenberg Staff Writer Catholics will now be able pray to a Jewish-born nun for divine intervention. That’s because on Sunday, Pope John Paul II made Edith Stein, a German-born Jewish...
View ArticleADL Quits Dialogue Group
by Eric J. Greenberg Staff Writer A new dustup has hit IJCIC, the Jewish coalition group that claims to represent the world Jewish community to the Vatican. One key member, the Anti-Defamation League,...
View ArticleNew, Old Faces In Dialogue
by Eric J. Greenberg Staff Writer There are two major personnel changes in the world of Jewish-Christian dialogue, even as meetings between representatives of the two religions continue. On the...
View ArticleManners And Morals
Eric J. Greenberg Staff Writer The new year is bringing with it a slew of new interfaith news and events. Perhaps the most critical issue involves the nasty political environment in Washington, D.C.,...
View ArticleScholars Pan Passion Play
by Eric J. Greenberg Staff Writer With the curtain about to rise on the world's most famous Passion Play, a team of Christian and Jewish scholars is giving it a thumbs down. It's not the acting or...
View ArticleOne Step Forward, Two Steps Back
by Eric J. Greenberg Staff Writer Two landmark theological documents were issued last week, one by leading Jewish thinkers and one by the Roman Catholic theologian. Besides timing, they couldn't be...
View ArticleInterfaith Leader Klenicki Dies
Steve Lipman Staff Writer Rabbi Leon Klenicki, one of the Jewish community’s leading voices for rapprochement with the Catholic Church, died Jan. 25. A resident of Monroe Township, N.J., he was 78....
View ArticleStatus Woe
by Eric J. Greenberg Staff Writer Are the growing numbers of women rabbis and ministers devaluing the power of the clergy? That was among the issues raised at a thought-provoking two-day conference...
View ArticleDealing With Dialogue Crisis
by Eric J. Greenberg Staff Writer What will be the future of Catholic-Jewish dialogue if the international Jewish interfaith coalition known as IJCIC is officially disbanded? That's the question...
View ArticleRewrite Not In The Works
by Eric J. Greenberg Staff Writer Efforts to eliminate anti-Semitic language and themes from the world's most famous Passion Play in time for its millennium production are not going smoothly. So says...
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