A half-century ago this year, the Catholic Church issued a landmark document that decried anti-Semitism and asserted that Jews could not be blamed for killing Jesus. The effect: Long-fraught relations between Catholics and Jews were dramatically improved. (JTA) To mark 50 years since the detente, New York’s Cardinal Timothy Dolan came to the Jewish Theological…
I made my first visit to Ireland more than 30 years ago. When I had married John a few months earlier, I had also wed his Celtic heritage, and was no longer a Goldberg, in name at least. My “Jewishness” became something that it was detected by no one but me. We went to a…
At the border of the town where I grew up there is a circle that straddles Maryland and the District of Columbia and is ringed by a band of churches. Catholic, Protestant, Presbyterian, Baptist, Methodist. All are represented here, I remember being told many times. Many of the girls in my town wore the Catholic…
Cardinal Edward Egan, who served as the archbishop of New York from 2000 to 2009, has died at age 82. Egan died Thursday in Manhattan of cardiac arrest, according to a statement by the Archdiocese of New York. Egan’s position as the archbishop of New York placed him, de facto, in one of the country’s…
A new Italian film that attempts to defend wartime Pope Pius XII against accusations he turned a blind eye to the Holocaust has been panned by the Vatican as well as Catholic and Jewish media. “Shades of Truth” is the account of a fictional present-day American journalist who starts off as a critic of Pius…
(JTA) — Mario Cuomo, the three-term New York governor who died Thursday, was the rare politician who appealed to the Jewish tent’s opposite poles. A strident liberal with a nuanced understanding of the sense of vulnerability among the deeply religious in a secular society, Cuomo died of heart failure just hours after his son Andrew…
Lior Zaltzman Last week, I offered some homemade latkes to my upstairs neighbor, Caitrin Kiley. As she happily ate a few (with sour cream, for which she has a slight preference over apple sauce), she casually mentioned her family’s Christmas morning tradition. The Kileys, a Catholic family from Connecticut, have a longstanding routine. Assorted relatives…
Australia canceled the visa of a British Catholic bishop who has denied that 6 million Jews died in the Holocaust. Richard Williamson was scheduled to speak in rural Australia this month but his visa was canceled this week, the Australian Jewish News reported. The Australian Jewish News said it had contacted the Department of Immigration…
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