News and events
Heschel Center News - Sr. Regine Canetti NDS, builder of Christian-Jewish bridges, has passed away
Sister Regine Canetti from the Congregation of the Sisters of Our Lady of Zion has died at the age of 104. Sister Regine was a Holocaust survivor, convert and nun who spent 80 years building Christian-Jewish understanding in the Holy Land. “Her life was such a silent witness to…
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Heschel Center News – March of Remembrance in Warsaw: A Tribute to Holocaust Victims and a Voice of Dissent
On the 83rd Anniversary of the beginning of the Great Liquidation of the Warsaw Ghetto, Hundreds Walked Through Muranów in the 14th March of Remembrance This year’s event was dedicated to the musicians of the ghetto – people who brought hope despite the omnipresence of death. The March in…
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Heschel Center News: 81 years pass since the liquidation of the German Nazi concentration camp at Majdanek
From October 1941 to July 22, 1944, approximately 130,000 prisoners of many nationalities passed through its gates, and about 78,000 lost their lives in the camp. Among them, the largest number of the dead and murdered were Jews (about 60,000 people), followed by Poles, Byelorussians, Ukrainians and Russians.…
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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…
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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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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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