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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 593

David Rosen

File: In this May 28, 2006 photo, then-pope Benedict XVI walks through the gate of the former Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz in Oswiecim, Poland. (AP Photo/Diether Endlicher, File)
January 6, 2023, 9:53 am
Despite some missteps, Benedict XVI was a committed friend to the Jews
The German traditionalist pope, buried Thursday, is often remembered as icy and aloof, but those who knew him say Ratzinger was a warm man who moved Catholic-Jewish ties forward
By Lazar Berman
Rabbi Yonatan Neril posts an interfaith letter against the war in Ukraine to Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill on the walls of Jerusalem’s Holy Trinity Cathedral, March 21, 2022. (Lazar Berman/Times of Israel)
March 21, 2022, 10:32 pm
Local clergy affix letter calling for end to Ukraine war to Jerusalem Russian church
Jewish, Muslim, Christian and Druze leaders gather in Jerusalem to call on Patriarch Kirill to ask Putin to bring end to bloody conflict
By Lazar Berman
Sudanese businessman Abu al-Qassem Bortoum speaks during an inter-faith event to promote religious tolerance in Sudan's capital Khartoum on February 6, 2021.(Ebrahim HAMID / AFP)
February 7, 2021, 8:47 pm
Sudan businessman defends interfaith dialogue ceremony addressed by rabbi
In path to ‘freedom, peace and justice,’ Abu al-Qassem Bortoum held event with Rabbi David Rosen of the AJC, along with other officials and religious group members
By MENNA ZAKI
Rabbi David Rosen, second from left, meeting with Saudi King Salman at the royal palace in Riyadh, February 2020 (courtesy KAICIID)
February 24, 2020, 4:15 pm
In first, Saudi king hosts Israeli rabbi at royal palace
Jerusalem-based David Rosen, invited to Riyadh as part of interfaith meeting, hails ‘revolutionary moment’; says Palestinian issue still ‘glass ceiling’ for Israel-Saudi relations
By Raphael Ahren
A tourist visits the tomb of World War II-era head of Poland's Catholic Church, Cardinal August Hlond, in St. John's Arch-Cathedral in Warsaw, Poland, June 16, 2018. (Alik Keplicz/AP)
July 4, 2018, 5:54 pm
Accusations of anti-Semitism mount against Polish priest set for sainthood
In 1936 pastoral letter, Cardinal August Hlond called Jewish people ‘the vanguard of godlessness, Bolshevism and subversion,’ but also prohibited attacks on Jews
By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA and Nicole Winfield
US President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump arrive at the Royal Terminal of King Khalid International Airport, Saturday, May 20, 2017, in Riyadh. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
May 22, 2017, 12:13 pm
Donald Trump brings God into the negotiation room
The former real estate magnate doesn’t see the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as a simple land dispute. As opposed to his predecessors, he focuses on the religious dimension
By Raphael Ahren
Jason Greenblatt, the US administration’s Special Envoy for International Negotiations, with members of the Council of Religious Institutions in the Holy Land at a gathering at the US Consulate-General in Jerusalem, March 16, 2017 (courtesy US Embassy Tel Aviv)
March 16, 2017, 9:45 pm
In ‘historic’ move, Trump envoy hosts interfaith meeting
At summit with Jason Greenblatt, Jewish, Muslim and Christian clergymen vow to advance peace and to ‘reject all incitement to violence’
By Raphael Ahren
Jewish and Orthodox Christian clerics and scholars posing with the Israeli ambassador to Greece, Irit Ben-Abba, at an interfaith dialogue commemorating 25 years of formal relations between Israel and Greece. (Embassy of Israel in Athens/via JTA)
November 17, 2015, 9:53 pm
After 43 years, Jewish dialogue with Orthodox Christians still fragile
A rare interfaith conference in Athens last month highlights the uncertainty in relations between the two ancient peoples
By Gavin Rabinowitz
Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, is greeted by Russia’s Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar in Moscow, June 13, 2013. (Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP Images/via JTA)
September 15, 2015, 2:24 am
Why Putin embraces Russia’s Jews, but not its gays
In FSU countries, it’s hardly surprisingly that amid an interfaith roundtable’s praises of tolerance, an archpriest would suddenly inveigh against homosexuals
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Israeli Tourism Minister Uzi Landau speaks before some 120 international rabbis of all denominations, Catholic cardinals and other leading clergy at a three-day interfaith conference overlooking the Sea of Galilee. (courtesy)
May 12, 2015, 11:12 pm
Where cardinals and rabbis go to forgive, and pray
Conference marking 50 years of Catholic-Jewish ties sees 120 rabbis and hundreds of Catholic clergy learn together by Sea of Galilee
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
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