Of course we all know what Pesah means: “to pass over” (cf Ex: 12,13: I will see the blood and I will pass over you’’. In fact, Pesah celebrates several “pass overs”… several “passages”. In the Pesah Haggada, the central Midrash on Dt 26:5-8 is introduced by two Biblical references: the first one is Read More
The umbrella organization of the Conservative Jewish Congregation in the United States for the first time encourages communities to officially accept non-Jewish friends.
A film related to the controversies that still today arise about the truthfulness of the Holocaust was released last year (2016).
This Saturday (January 28) marks 50 years since the death of the remarkable father of Sion who saved hundreds of Jewish children during the Second World War. Father Théomir Devaux (d. 28 January 1967) devoted most of his life to the development of Judeo-Christian relationship. He spent several years at Ratisbonne Monastery, in Jerusalem and Read More
The classic Fiddler on the Roof is an adaptation of a Broadway musical of the same name, created in 1964 by the American composer Jerry Bock. The play, which takes place in Tsarist Russia in 1905, is based on the play Tevye and his Daughters by Sholem Aleichem. The story revolves around Tevye, the father Read More
Traditional Judaism firmly believes that death is not the end of human existence. However, because Judaism is primarily focused on life here and now rather than on the afterlife, Judaism does not have much dogma about the afterlife, and leaves a great deal of room for personal opinion. It is possible for an Orthodox Jew Read More
The Christian Center for Jewish Studies (CCEJ in the Portuguese acronym) of Sion Brothers in São Paulo, recently presented the fourth book of the collection “Judaism and Christianity”: Golden Jubilee of the Catholic-Jewish dialogue. The work is inspired by the fiftieth anniversary of the conciliar Declaration Nostra Aetate, which presents the Church’s manifested desire to follow and deepen Read More
God promised the Holy Land to the people of Israel, Pope Francis said during a public address at the Vatican in Rome on Wednesday in a speech about migration. “The people of Israel, who from Egypt, where they were enslaved, walked through the desert for forty years until they reached the land promised by God,” Read More
On this October 12, 2016 the Jews celebrated Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. See in the following video images recorded in the most important place of Jewish pilgrimage: the Western Wall.
