THE ABRAHAM J. HESCHEL CENTER FOR CATHOLIC-JEWISH RELATIONS THE JOHN PAUL II CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF LUBLIN

News and events

A recap of “The Operation that Killed the City” exhibition

April 17 marked the conclusion of the exhibition “The Operation that Killed the City. The story of Lublin and its Jewish community in the shadow of the Holocaust based on photographs and documents from the collection of Norbert Podlesny. An exhibition in memory of the victims of Operation Reinhardt”. Since… Read more… »

Pesach – The Feast of Exodus and Freedom. This Year Celebrated Together with Easter

This year, Easter in the Latin Church coincides with the Jewish feast of Pesach—a convergence that happens relatively rarely, as both celebrations are calculated according to different calendars. Pesach is a discovery of how the Passover meal becomes a tangible experience of salvation history through the senses of sight,… Read more… »

Four thousand people at the Stations of the Cross at Majdanek

This year's Stations of the Cross at Majdanek, organized by the AL Catholic Youth Association and the AL Center for Youth Pastoral Care on the grounds of the State Museum at Majdanek, was the twenty-fifth anniversary event in the history of the whole undertaking. Its motto was: the Cross is… Read more… »

Biblical commentaries

Sunday Psalm: A Sense of Abandonment and Hope for Salvation

In the broader Jewish context, the psalm is sometimes associated with the prayers of distressed individuals and communities. It is also linked to historical events in which the people of Israel experienced a sense of abandonment, but also hope for salvation, says Shlomo Libertovsky, a Torah teacher in Beit… Read more… »

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… Read more… »

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… Read more… »

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… Read more… »

The Abraham J. Heschel Center
for Catholic-Jewish Relations
at the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin

ul. Spokojna 1
20-074 Lublin, Polska
email: heschel.center@kul.pl

Task assigned to the Minister of Science „The Abraham J. Heschel Center for Catholic-Jewish Relations”
– co-financed from the State Budget – Ministry of Science and Higher Education,
contract no. MEiN/2023/DPI/2884 of 12.10.2023.

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