This year’s celebration of the Day of Judaism in the Archdiocese of Lublin will begin on Wednesday, 18 January 2023. The event is organised by the Archdiocesan Centre for Catholic-Jewish Dialogue and the Abraham J. Heschel Centre for Catholic-Jewish Relations of the Catholic University of Lublin (KUL).

“We need this Day of Judaism, in which we can discover the Jewish roots of the Christian religion, we can hold a common dialogue, we can pray together, we can discover the richness of our religions and together solve the problems we encounter in the contemporary world”, stressed Rev. Prof. Mirosław Wróbel, director of the Abraham J. Heschel Centre for Catholic-Jewish Relations at the Catholic University of Lublin (KUL).

The meeting will begin with the song ‘Shema Israel’, after which texts from the Torah and the Gospels will be read and two commentaries – Jewish and Catholic – will be given. Rabbi Yitzhak Rapoport of the Jewish Religious Community in Warsaw will talk about the Jewish celebration of Passover, while Father Mirosław Bielecki, father of the Light and Love Centre in Łopoczno, will present Passover from a Christian perspective.