Israeli rabbis in talks with Vatican

Vatican leaders and Israeli Rabbinate officials are holding a meeting in Rome until Wednesday. The encounter between the bilateral Committee for Religious Dialogue of the Chief Rabbinate of Israel and the Vatican’s Pontifical Commission for Religious Relations with Jewry centers on the topic of sanctity and the value of life in the Jewish and Catholic traditions. During the meeting, the delegations will hear lectures by Cardinal Walter Kasper and the chief rabbi of Rome, Rabbi Riccardo DiSegni, opening a new program on the Catholic Church and its teachings on Judaism and the Jewish people at Gregorian University.