The Elijah School: The Quest for Religious Wisdom in Jerusalem
By Alon Goshen-Gottstein
Father Maroun Laham had never spoken to an Israeli. Indeed the dignified, graying, Palestinian clergyman who heads the Catholic seminary in the West Bank town of Beit Jalla had never even encountered a Jew who was not a soldier.
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Encounters with Neighbors on The Eve of The Millennium
By Ronald Kronish
A few weeks ago, I attended an interreligious assembly at the Vatican, which was convened by the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue and the Central Committee for the Great Jubilee of the Year 2000, led by H.E. Cardinal Francis Arinze and H.E. Cardinal Roger Etchegary, respectively.
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Census and Sensibilities
By Abraham Rabinovich
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1999 - "It would have been very difficult in 1900 to predict that by the year 2000 there would be a state of Israel and that the 50,000 Jews living in Palestine would have grown to 5.1 million."
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A father's message
By Judy Labensohn
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1999 - When Father Robert Fortin uses the word resurrection, he's not always talking about Jesus.
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