Heather Miller Rubens

Heather Miller Rubens is the Executive Director and Roman Catholic Scholar at the Institute for Islamic, Christian, and Jewish Studies (ICJS). Rubens is a member of the Committee on Ethics, Religion and the Holocaust at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, a board member of the Washington Theological Consortium.

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A delegation of U.S. Christians hold an Aug. 18 prayer vigil at the Kerem Shalom crossing on the border between Israel and Gaza. The group came to the Middle East to accompany threatened Christians and other Palestinians and call for a cease-fire in Gaza. (OSV News/Paul Jeffrey)

We must have courage to dialogue

Here are some common objections to interreligious dialogue that individuals must courageously grapple with before entering a conversation on Israel and Gaza, or any topic where participants are deeply divided, writes Heather Miller Rubens.

The casual, but dangerous antisemitism in Harrison Butker's commencement speech

Despite all the media furor about the May 11 commencement speech by Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker, most commentators did not engage one disturbing part of his speech: his claim that Catholics should proclaim that the Jews killed Jesus.

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