Category: Skorka
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Nostra Aetate, 60 Years Later
Nostra Aetate was promulgated 60 years ago so that the Catholic Church could engagebetter with the modern world and to address a tragic historical mistake. CardinalAgostino Bea,…
December 4, 2025
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Yom Kippur 5786
When the Jerusalem Temple still stood, the rituals to be performed on Yom Kippur had two central figures and two specific places. First, the High Priest, and only he, was…
October 3, 2025
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Rosh Hashanah 5786
Rosh Hashanah, whose literal translation from Hebrew is the “head” or “beginning” of a newyear, is connected to b’reshit, “in the beginning,&; …
October 3, 2025
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Hiroshima, 90 Years Later: In divine dress or naked again?
The Hebrew Bible certainly has three main protagonists in its 24 books: God, the people of Israel, and humanity in general. The ancient Israelites and their Jewish descendants…
September 12, 2025
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The Passover Haggadah: Reflections for Pesach and Easter 5785 / 2025
The foundational event that transformed the Benei Israel into a people was their liberation from Egypt and the reception of the Torah on Mount Sinai (Deuteronomy 27:9; b.…
September 12, 2025
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When a Friend Leaves …
As soon as he was elected Pope, Francis called me on the phone and gave me the email address we could use to keep in touch with each other. From that day in March 2013 until now,…
September 12, 2025
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Rabbi Abraham Skorka for Georgetown University: “When a Friend Leaves: A Statement from Rabbi Abraham Skorka on the Passing of Pope Francis”
Rabbi Abraham Skorka is senior research fellow for Jewish Studies and Jewish-Christian Relations at Georgetown and was a longtime friend of Pope Francis. In this first-person…
April 25, 2025
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Reflections on International Holocaust Remembrance Day 5785 / 2025
Resolution 60/7, adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations on November 1, 2005, established January 27 as International Holocaust Remembrance. …
February 7, 2025
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Reflections for Yom Kippur 5785/2024
According to the Talmudic sages, Chapter 19 of the biblical book of Leviticus is one in which most of the core teachings of the Torah are found. Verse 2 emphasizes that the…
October 4, 2024