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Catholics Have a Right To Pray for UsIsrael prays for gentiles, so the other monotheists, the Catholic Church included, have the right to do the same — and no one should feel offended, as many have by Pope Benedict XVI’s recent revision of the Tridentine Mass.…Read more

The Pope and I: A Debate With Jesus Is Joined By Benedict XVII made up an imaginary conversation with Jesus and wound up debating the real-life Bishop of Rome, the pope.…Read more

The Making of a LeaderThe Catholics got it right. They choose a pope in secret. They mourn the last pope, collect the cardinals in seclusion, and poof — black smoke, black smoke, white smoke. Then everyone goes back to work.But choosing a pope for a billion Catholics is one thing; choosing a chancellor for a million and a half Conservative Jews is another thing…Read more

A Threat to the AcademyIt has been 40 years since universities began to make faculty appointments in Jewish subjects in their departments of religious studies, history, literature and language. In the decades that followed, the field of Jewish studies has flourished on campus.…Read more