News and events
Another edition of the Prayer March “On the Path of Warsaw Ghetto Monuments” will be held in Warsaw.
An initiative with a long-standing historyEvery year, near April 19 - the date of the beginning of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in 1943 - the Polish Council of Christians and Jews organizes the March of Prayer “On the Path of the Warsaw Ghetto Monuments.” About a hundred Warsaw residents and…
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Unique Exhibition at KUL on Operation Reinhard, Which Claimed the Lives of Around 2 Million Jews
The exhibition “The Operation That Killed a City” has opened at the Catholic University of Lublin (KUL) Library. Through photographs and documents from Norbert Podleśny’s collection, the exhibition tells the story of Lublin and its Jewish community in the shadow of the Holocaust. “We are witnessing a historic event. For the…
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The operation that killed the city
The University Library and the Collegium Iuridicum of the Catholic University of Lublin are linked by a painful history related to Operation “Reinhard” - the extermination of Jews under German occupation. Odilo Globocnik, one of the main organizers and executors of the criminal enterprise, had an office in Collegium Iuriducum,…
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Biblical commentaries
Sunday Psalm: Worshiping God Is Not Enough—Words and Actions Matter
"Praising God in prayer isn’t enough. It’s only the beginning. Our actions and our words are what matter," says Rabbi Steve Burnstein from the Birkat Shalom congregation in Kibbutz Gezer, Israel, commenting on Psalm 34 for the Heschel Center at the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin. The…
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Sunday Psalm: God’s Hidden Face – A Test of Faith
“The believer cannot live a single moment without the feeling that God is close to him,” says Shlomo Libertovski, a Torah scholar from Beth Shemesh, commenting on Psalm 27 for the Heschel Center at the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin. Reflecting on King David’s plea, Libertovski emphasizes…
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Rabbi Oded Peles: Purim Unveils the Hidden Divine
Rabbi Oded Peles offers a fresh perspective on Purim by revealing unexpected spiritual ties with Yom Kippur. In his commentary for the Heschel Center at the Catholic University of Lublin, he stressed that while Purim commemorates the rescue of the Jewish people from ancient Persian persecution through festive customs…
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Newsletters
Newsletter No 1/2025
Dear Readers, we present you with a list of the most important activities and actions of the Abraham J. Heschel for Catholic-Jewish Relations of the Catholic University of Lublin in January 2025. Ranging from the lighting of the Lights of Hope at the Catholic University of Lublin, through the organization…
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