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Culture How a Jewish filmmaker wound up eating cake with the pope — an interview with Evgeny Afineevsky
Evgeny Afineevsky celebrated his 48th birthday with a very special person: Pope Francis, the most significant figure in the Catholic world. Afineevsky had just finished filming “Francesco,” a documentary on the pontiff’s teachings. Ahead of its premiere at the Rome Film Festival, Afineevsky brought some friends to a private meeting with the pope, who greeted…
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The Schmooze Whoa! The Pope Is Woke On Anti-Semitism
Roughly 3,500 years into the great experiment known as Judaism, and things are going better than we could have possibly imagined and more painfully than we might have hoped. We’re rocking a rich global culture, an independent Jewish state, and nifty inventions like Google and braided egg bread. We Jews also continue to experience vile…
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Fast Forward Pope To Jews: ‘A Christian Cannot Be An Anti-Semite – Because We Share Roots’
(JTA) — Pope Francis lamented anti-Semitic attacks and spread a message to ban the anti-Semitism during an audience with Jewish emissaries. The Pope on Monday received for first time delegates of the World Congress of Mountain Jews at the Vatican. Two weeks after the attack on a Pittsburgh synagogue that killed 11 worshippers Francis said in…
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Fast Forward Controversy Erupts Over Video Of Hasids Dancing With ‘Idol-Worshipping’ Pope
Following a meeting with Pope Francis to discuss the protection of Jewish cemeteries in Europe and combating child sex abuse, a delegation of Hasidic Jews broke out in song and dance. Rabbis locked arms, men played guitars and the Pope seemed to bob up and down slightly. A video of the scene went viral. Then…
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Fast Forward Italian Rabbi Objects To Pope Francis’s ‘Anti-Jewish’ Rhetoric
In his push to open up Catholic communion to the divorced and remarried, Pope Francis has portrayed his critics as stubborn legalists and Pharisees who “sit in the chair of Moses and judge.” It’s language that, for at least one rabbi, evokes anti-Jewish stereotypes. The flare-up was highlighted in the religious journal First Things. In…
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Breaking News Toronto Rabbi and Wife Get Rare Papal Blessing for 70th Anniversary
A Toronto rabbi and his wife received a blessing from the pope as a wedding anniversary gift. To mark their 70th year together, Rabbi Erwin Schild and his wife, Laura, were presented with a handwritten scroll stamped with the papal seal and a photo of Pope Francis. The couple was presented with the honor by…
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News Despite Hiccups, Vatican Revolution Against Anti-Semitism Stands Strong at 50
Could a lengthy document, written in Latin and published after extensive theological debates, overturn centuries of animosity between the Catholic Church and the Jewish people? Closing the book on almost 2,000 years of persecution seemed nearly impossible when the Second Vatican Council adopted Nostra Aetate, the Catholic Church’s historic rejection of the notion that Jewish…
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