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Significance of the 2019 Document on Human Fraternity signed in Abu Dhabi highlighted

Two rabbis praised the statement of solidarity from the US bishops Committee on Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs

People participate in a Jewish solidarity march across the Brooklyn Bridge on Jan. 5, 2020, in New York City. / Jeenah Moon/Getty Images Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Nov 29, 2022 / 14:15 pm (CNA). The U.S. Catholic bishops strongly condemned in a...

WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Saying they are outraged by growing antisemitic rhetoric across the country, members of the U.S. bishops Committee on Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs urged Christians to decry hate-filled statements and violence aimed at Jewish individuals, homes and institutions. Committee members also denounced any rhetoric which seeks to demonize or dehumanize the Jewish people or Judaism as a religious tradition, in a statement released Nov. 28 by the U.S. Conference of Cathol

In a November 28 statement, the US bishops’ Committee on Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs recalled the upcoming 60th anniversary of Nostra Aetate, the Second Vatican Council’s Declaration on the Relation of the Church to Non-Christian Religions, and deplored “the re-emergence of antisemitism in new forms.

A smattering of headlines across local New York City newspapers read: “On Blacks and Jews”; “The Myth of Black Anti-Semitism”; and “Who’s Anti-Semitic?” You might be forgiven for thinking those bulletins were penned in recent weeks. However, they were all created more than 50 years ago, at another moment in Gotham’s history when questions about Black and Jewish relations were at the forefront of public discourse.

<p class="MsoNormal">I suppose it was fitting, in a depressing kind of way, that the U.S. bishops' conference plenary coincided with former President Donald Trump's announcement he is seeking the presidency in 2024. In both church and state, the future will be dominated by divisiveness and a culture war ethic for the next few years, a result that contradicts the founding mission of both. The future is grim.<o:p></o:p></p>

Rabbi A. James Rudin has spent much of his life helping to develop respect and understanding among faiths. On Sunday, he will be the third American rabbi bestowed with the Papal Knighthood of the Order of St. Gregory the Great.

From the blog of Eve Rudin Kleinman at The Times of Israel

Rabbi A. James Rudin, co-founder of Saint Leo University’s Center for Catholic-Jewish Studies, to receive Papal Knighthood. The Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Boston Mark O’Connell will conduct the investiture ceremony on behalf of Pope Francis on November 20 at the university's campus, north of Tampa.