Anti-Semitism still rears its ugly head. The British designer John Galliano, for instance, has just been sacked as head designer of Christian Dior for an alleged anti-Jewish drunken rant in a Paris bar. His instant dismissal was perhaps commercially necessary. But it was morally justified too. At a meeting of the International Catholic-Jewish Liaison Committee in Paris, the city’s Archbishop, Cardinal André Vingt-Trois, said anti-Semitism must be “unambiguously exposed as a sin against God and humanity”, as it was “unfortunately, not dead”.
Traditionally across Europe, the most dangerous day of the year for Jews was Good Friday, as some of the prayers and readings used in churches that day could easily become an incitement to anti-Semitism. That changed when the Second Vatican Council decree Nostra Aetate specifically instructed that “the Jews should not be presented as rejected or accursed by God, as if this followed from the Holy Scriptures.”
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(The Tablet Editorial) Dangerous days for the Jews
Anti-Semitism still rears its ugly head. The British designer John Galliano, for instance, has just been sacked as head designer of Christian Dior for an alleged anti-Jewish drunken rant in a Paris bar. His instant dismissal was perhaps commercially necessary. But it was morally justified too. At a meeting of the International Catholic-Jewish Liaison Committee in Paris, the city’s Archbishop, Cardinal André Vingt-Trois, said anti-Semitism must be “unambiguously exposed as a sin against God and humanity”, as it was “unfortunately, not dead”.
Traditionally across Europe, the most dangerous day of the year for Jews was Good Friday, as some of the prayers and readings used in churches that day could easily become an incitement to anti-Semitism. That changed when the Second Vatican Council decree Nostra Aetate specifically instructed that “the Jews should not be presented as rejected or accursed by God, as if this followed from the Holy Scriptures.”
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