{"id":49778,"date":"2022-12-18T19:43:22","date_gmt":"2022-12-18T18:43:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=49778"},"modified":"2022-12-18T19:45:03","modified_gmt":"2022-12-18T18:45:03","slug":"happy-hanukkah-to-the-jewish-community-our-favorite-brothers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/12\/18\/happy-hanukkah-to-the-jewish-community-our-favorite-brothers\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Hanukkah to the Jewish community, \"our favorite brothers\""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During these days, Jewish communities around the world celebrate Hanukkah, their Festival of Lights. I am Catholic, and I can't stop remembering <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vatican.va\/content\/john-paul-ii\/it\/speeches\/1986\/april\/documents\/hf_jp-ii_spe_19860413_sinagoga-roma.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the words of Saint John Paul II during his historic visit to the Synagogue in Rome<\/a>, the first by a Pope, on Sunday, April 13, 1986: <em>\"The Jewish religion is not \"extrinsic\" to us, but in a way, it is \"intrinsic\" to our religion. Therefore, we have relations with it that we do not have with any other religion. <strong>You are our favorite brothers and, in a way, you could say our older brothers<\/strong>.\"<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>May the search for good continue to unite us Jews and Christians<\/strong>, and may we never stop helping each other in the face of the hatred of those who promote anti-Semitism and Christianophobia. <strong>Happy Hanukkah to the entire Jewish community! Shalom aleichem, peace be upon you.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2018\/04\/19\/to-die-with-dignity-fighting-this-is-how-the-warsaw-ghetto-uprising-was\/\">\"To die with dignity, fighting\": this is how the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2021\/05\/10\/zog-nit-kein-mol-a-beautiful-song-full-of-hope-arising-from-the-horror-of-the-holocaust\/\">'Zog nit kein mol': a beautiful song full of hope arising from the horror of the Holocaust<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>---<\/p>\n<p><small>Photo: iStock.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During these days, Jewish communities around the world celebrate Hanukkah, their Festival of Lights. I am Catholic, and I can&#8217;t stop remembering the words of Saint John Paul II during his historic visit to the Synagogue in Rome, the first by a Pope, on Sunday, April 13, 1986: \u00abThe Jewish religion is not \u00abextrinsic\u00bb to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[16305,10712],"tags":[13443,12605],"class_list":["post-49778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-annotations","category-religion-eng","tag-hanukkah","tag-judaism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49778"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49778\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}