Your Eminences and Excellencies, Distinguished Faculty and Students of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Dear Ladies and Gentlemen, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem is indeed honoring us by conferring upon our humble person a Doctorate Honoris Causa, which we accept wholeheartedly and gratefully. We consider this gesture a tribute paid to…
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ADDRESS by His-All Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew “JERUSALEM IN JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY” Ecumenical Patriarchate-IJCIC: Celebrating 40 Years of Dialogue (Jerusalem, December 5, 2017)
Your Beatitude Patriarch Theophilos of Jerusalem, Eminences, Excellencies, Distinguished participants, Dear friends, It is an honor to address this historic conference in which we celebrate forty years of dialogue between Orthodoxy and Judaism. We congratulate His Eminence Metropolitan Emmanuel of France, representing our Ecumenical Patriarchate, and Rabbi David Rosen, representing…
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More than 4 decades on, Jewish dialogue with Orthodox Christians still fragile
ATHENS, Greece (JTA) — For two days, 38 leading Jewish and Orthodox Christian clerics and scholars sat in a hotel outside the Greek capital for a rare dialogue on relations between the two ancient faiths. The talks, held last month, were only the eighth round since formal interfaith dialogue between…
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