The long pilgrimage of David Brooks has led him to explore Christianity and embrace a life lived in tension.
Judaism
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: A lifetime of studying the three great monotheistic faiths
Patrick Ryan, S.J., has produced a book that is a word of culmination and ratification. It is a kind of extended amen at the end of a long life of scholarly faith and faithful scholarship.
Posted inArts & Culture, Ideas
Review: New exhibit reminds us the Holocaust wasn’t long ago or far away
“Auschwitz. Not long ago. Not far away” at the Museum of Jewish Heritage speaks to the horror of the Holocaust and the courage and determination of its survivors.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Polish nationalists protest U.S. over Holocaust claims
Protesters, including far-right groups and their supporters, say the United States has no right to interfere in Polish affairs and that the U.S. government is putting “Jewish interests” over the interests of Poland.
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Farrakhan refers to ‘Satanic Jews’ in speech at Chicago Catholic Church
Farrakhan asserted people shouldn’t be angry with him if “I stand on God’s word,” also saying that he knows “the truth,” and “separate the good Jews from the Satanic Jews.”
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Anti-Semitic attacks spike, killing most Jews in decades
Jewish communities worldwide are feeling an “increasing sense of emergency” due to the recent spate of anti-Semitic attacks. In 2018 alone, according to Tel Aviv University researchers, there has been a 13% increase in such attacks upon Jews and Jewish communities, with the most dramatic cases occurring in Western Europe, and recently, in the United States.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
How Jewish spirituality enriches my Catholic faith
I—a girl schooled by the Sisters of Loretto and a phalanx of Jesuits—have found my sense of the divine animated by the sacred Jewish lens of wonder and wisdom.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
Rabbi Skorka: What my friendship with Pope Francis taught me about interfaith dialogue
In preparation for the gathering in Abu Dhabi, I find myself asking why my conversations with the future Pope Francis so powerfully affected both of us.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Pope Francis: Anti-Semitism must be banned from society
“A Christian cannot be an anti-Semite; we share the same roots. It would be a contradiction of faith and life.”
Posted inFeatures, Politics & Society
With Anti-Semitism on the rise, can Poland come to terms with its past?
For almost 20 years Polish scholars have been at the cutting edge of Holocaust research. But a law proposed this year threatened to change all that.