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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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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
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Easter Greeting Reflections
The development of interreligious dialogue in recent decades has brought together membersof many different religions, creating relationships that encourage mutual experiences of…
March 15, 2024
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Living Memories
International Holocaust Memorial Day on January 27 marks the day in 1945 whenSoviet troops liberated the Nazi Concentration and Extermination Camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau. Seventy…
January 31, 2024
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Light for People in Darkness: A Jewish reflection for Christmas 2023
According to the rabbinic tradition (b. Rosh Hashanah 17b), God has thirteen attributes. Therabbis derived them from Exodus 34:6ff: “The Lord! the Lord! a God merciful and…
December 22, 2023