The family of French historian Jules Isaac (1877-1963) was deported and murdered in Auschwitz in 1943, “because their name was Isaac”. Isaac himself survived to become a key figure at the Christian-Jewish conference held in Switzerland in 1947 that yielded the “Ten Points of Seelisberg”, a charter for Christian catechism, preaching, and theology that moved away from the traditional teaching of contempt toward a teaching of mutual esteem. With Edmond Fleg, Jules Isaac founded the Amitié Judéo-Chrétienne de France (AJCF) in 1948. Sixty years after Isaac’s death, a delegation of the AJCF was received by Pope Francis to commemorate the role of Jules Isaac in a fundamental text of Vatican II, Nostra Aetate (“in our time”). In this Forum, parishioner and theologian Anne Marie Reijnen, a Vice-president of the AJCF, explores the legacy of this towering figure and the radical shifts in the teaching of the churches regarding the Judaism of the time of Jesus, as well as today’s Jewish faith.

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