Kesher Talk

Interfaith dialogue Dept. Some Cardinals from the Vatican hang out with yeshiva bochers at YU, courtesy of the Jewish-born Roman Catholic archbishop of Paris, Cardinal Jean-Marie Lustiger. (Apostates usually go to the opposite extreme, promulgating hatred for their former people. Lustiger is a refreshing relief.)

UPDATE: More here on the Cardinals' visit.

UPDATE: More here and here on the YU visit part of the conference of cardinals and rabbis. More backgound on Cardinal Lustiger - he

was born a Jew and converted to Catholicism at age 14, just after the war. . . . Cardinal Lustiger’s mother was one of thousands of French Jews deported to German concentration camps. She was murdered at Auschwitz. Cardinal Lustiger, who apparently still considers himself Jewish in some respects, goes to the death camp each year to recite the memorial prayer Kaddish and has signed letters to Jews with his Hebrew name. At lunch on the first day of the conference, Cardinal Lustiger bantered in Yiddish with Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz, the noted Lubavitch writer and teacher of chasidic philosophy and translator of the Talmud.

posted by Judith @ 1/21/2004 04:44:00 PM