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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 567

Jewish-Christian relations

This handout picture released by the Vatican press office shows Pope Francis during a meeting with David Oren, ambassador of Israel to the Holy See, on October 27, 2016 at the Vatican. (AFP)
April 21, 2025, 6:22 pm
Jewish groups mourn Pope Francis, ‘friend of the Jewish people,’ but some are critical
Some voices take issue with the late leader of the Catholic Church over his statements condemning Israeli actions in its war in Gaza
By Zev Stub
Girls pose for pictures on a platform as bubbles are sprayed at them near a lit up Christmas tree, Ramadan Lantern, and Hanukkah menorah displayed at the German Colony area in Israel's northern city of Haifa on December 21, 2024. (Ahmad Gharabli / AFP)
December 23, 2024, 9:56 am
After months of Hezbollah rocket attacks, Haifa’s Christians get ready for Christmas
Without the constant threat of war, residents say they can enjoy the reboot of the northern city’s annual Holiday of Holidays celebration, cancelled last year
By Diana Bletter
Pope Francis meets with a delegation from the American Jewish Committee at the Vatican on International Women's Day, March 8, 2019. (Vatican Media)
December 22, 2024, 9:02 pm
As relations ebb, rabbi and bishop launch guide to educate Catholics on antisemitism
Despite comments on the war by Pope Francis that rub many Jews the wrong way, Rabbi Noam Marans and Bishop Joseph Bambera have faith that dialogue can help overcome the hitch
By Ben Sales
Pastor John Hagee addresses a conference of Christians United for Israel, National Harbor, Maryland, June 29, 2024. (CUFI/ via JTA)
August 8, 2024, 1:53 am
Pro-Israel US conservatives concerned over isolationism, and antisemitism, on far right
At CUFI annual summit, Christian activists and their Jewish allies address right-wing Republicans who oppose laws defining Jew hatred and want to curb aid to the Jewish state
By Ron Kampeas
World Jewish Congress President Ronald Lauder gives Pope Francis a 'Kishreinu' (Hebrew for 'Our Bond') document marking influence of the Catholic Church's Nostra Aetate declaration on Catholic-Jewish relations, October 19, 2023. (Shahar Azran/WJC via JTA)
October 24, 2023, 4:26 pm
In a first, a Jewish organization opens an office at the Vatican
World Jewish Congress president Ronald Lauder visits Pope Francis while inaugurating the organization’s ‘representative office to the Holy See’ late last week
By Gabe Friedman
Christian students enrolled in the master's program for Jewish studies at Yeshiva University read a piece of text from the book of Shemot, or Exodus, while on a tour of the campus guided by Jewish educators. (Courtesy Yeshiva University via JTA)
August 17, 2023, 3:35 am
Yeshiva University launches master’s program for Christian students
The 2-year track at the Modern Orthodox flagship is being called an ‘experiment,’ but what’s certain is that it reflects a growing Evangelical interest in Jewish practices
By Jackie Hajdenberg
Senior Minister Rev. Jacqueline Lewis, right, looks up at the burned remains of Middle Collegiate Church on April 10, 2022 (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski)
January 12, 2023, 9:25 am
Historic NYC church, housed by synagogue after fire, is greenlit for restoration
East End Temple welcomed Middle Collegiate Church-goers to worship in its sanctuary after it was devastated by massive blaze in 2020
By Jacob Henry
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
Pope Francis and Rabbi Abraham Skorka leave the Western Wall compound, after the pope prayed at the Wall in Jerusalem, Israel, May 26, 2014. (Lior Mizrahi/Getty Images via JTA)
December 18, 2022, 8:41 pm
Churches urged to act against antisemitism, including by scrutinizing own practices
Group dedicated to solidary between Christians and Jews issues statement declaring US currently facing ‘greatest crisis of public antisemitism in a century’
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
From left, Jeimer Candelario, Nelson Cruz and Cesar Hernandez pose for a photo at a baseball field in Ra'anana, Israel. (Nico Andre' Duran via JTA)
November 28, 2022, 2:50 am
Nelson Cruz, Hispanic MLB players visit Israel to promote Christian-Jewish relations
Devout US group including Cesar Hernandez, Jeimer Candelario tours land where Jesus once walked; visitors say they’ll advocate for Israel in Latin America and in world of baseball
By Hillel Kuttler
Rabbi Michael Harvey, and the offending tweet he said he wrote out of anger. (Courtesy via JTA)
May 14, 2022, 4:18 am
A rabbi who ‘speaks to Christians’ condemned them on Twitter. It cost him his job
Series of posts about abortion by Rabbi Michael Harvey ignite controversy; he says white nationalists posted some of them after hacking his account
By Andrew Lapin
Two Ukrainian-Jewish girls shown on a bus in Moldova arranged for their families by Christians for Israel, March 7, 2022. (Courtesy of Christians for Israel/ via JTA)
March 19, 2022, 5:32 am
Christians help hundreds of Ukrainian Jews escape the war and immigrate to Israel
Christians for Israel, which has helped thousands of Jews move from Ukraine to the Holy Land over the past 25 years, has been preparing for this moment since 2014
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Illustrative: A display in the German colony, in the northern Israeli city of Haifa includes a menorah and a Christmas tree. (Sapir Bronzberg/FLASH90)
December 17, 2021, 8:39 pm
To tree, or not to tree? How Jewish-Christian families navigate December’s dilemma
Interfaith families always seem to discuss which traditions to observe, but for the Christmas tree, the method of debate is more important to them than what is ultimately decided
By Samira Mehta
(L to R) Pastor Gregor Hohberg, Rabbi Andreas Nachama and Imam Kadir Sanci pose during the groundbreaking ceremony of the multi-religion building 'House Of One' on May 27, 2021 (Photo by Wolfgang Kumm / dpa / AFP)
May 29, 2021, 2:52 pm
Rabbi, imam, pastor lay foundation stone for Berlin multi-faith ‘House of One’
Ambitious project containing 3 places of worship connected by a communal hall is scheduled to open by 2025; symbolic objects from all 3 religions cast into the concrete
By AFP
The Christian Passover seder with challah braided in the shape of a cross. (Screenshot/@clapifyoulikeme via JTA)
March 30, 2021, 10:11 pm
Christian Passover Seder with cross-shaped challah sparks online rage
Twitter user finds an extreme version of the ‘non-Jews putting an unkosher twist on the Jewish holiday meal’ stereotype
By Gabe Friedman
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