We should try to cultivate our sensitivity to the religious experiences of other faiths because they will enhance our own. Look for commonalities rather than sharpening points of disagreement. The crucial issue is to respect religiosity even if we have different theological doctrines,” said Prof. Susannah Heschel in a lecture dedicated to her father Abraham J. Heschel, a prominent 20th-century Jewish philosopher. The meeting was organized by the Center for Catholic-Jewish Relations of the Catholic University of Lublin, named after Abraham J. Heschel, and the Lublin Scientific Society on October 20, 2022.

I am glad that the Center for Catholic-Jewish Relations has been opened in Lublin, Pope Francis stressed during the general audience in St. Peter's Square in Rome on Wednesday, October 19.

At the conclusion of the celebrations marking the opening of the Abraham J. Heschel Center for Catholic-Jewish Relations at the Catholic University of Lublin, the center's board of directors, together with representatives of the university's authorities, took part in a prayer on the occasion of the celebrated holiday of Simchat Torah - the Feast of the Joy of Torah. The prayer in the Lublin synagogue located in Yeshivas Chachmei Lublin was led by Cantor Symcha Keller.

The Abraham J. Heschel Center for Catholic-Jewish Relations - a new scientific, educational, and cultural unit to deepen Catholic-Jewish relations internationally - began its activities at the Catholic University of Lublin on Monday. Scientific research, publishing activities, student exchanges, as well as international symposia, conferences, debates and cultural events are the main tasks of the institution.

Academic research, publications, international symposia, conferences, debates, as well as cultural events and building relations between students from Poland and Israel - these are the main tasks of the Abraham J. Heschel Center for Catholic-Jewish Relations at the Catholic University of Lublin (KUL). The inauguration will take place on October 17, announced the rector of the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Fr. Prof. Miroslaw Kalinowski.