David Meyer, a leading figure in Jewish-Christian dialogue in Europe and a co-signer of a recent open letter to Pope Francis, discusses the controversies surr.
The war in Gaza has already taken an enormous toll. For Francis, it undoubtedly would be especially agonizing should his relationship with Jews and Judaism end up being among the casualties.
These three sources of tension – the politics of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, the theological approach to Judaism, and the inter-faith balancing act vis-à-vis Islam — are all coming to a head amid the current conflagration in Gaza.
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A group of Italian Rabbis and other prominent Jewish leaders have hit back against Pope Francis’s referral Wednesday to the ongoing war in Gaza as “terrorism,” saying he is equating the aggressors with the victims.