Thank you for your timely reprise of the Jewish/Christian story. Leonard Cohen's closing line says it all. Marc Chagall was an artist who crossed that invisible line. I remember the 'Jews for Jesus' groupies handing out pamphlets on the streets of Toronto in the 1970s. There was a formal attempt to bridge the gap by a new order of Catholic nuns, The Sisters of Sion, dedicated to crossing that invisible line. Under their auspices I participated in a Christian Jewish Passover Seder in the basement of Our Lady of the Assumption Church. Eventually I helped write A Feminist Haggadah with an interfaith group of women organized by a Jewish organization.
Thanks Gwen. You may have seen the post I wrote last year about Chagall's windows in Tudeley Church, https://harryfreedman.substack.com/p/look-mother-im-a-captain
Thank you. I love Chagall's exuberant enthusiasm for the Tudeley church windows.
I forgot to identify myself as Catholic. And I overlooked mentioning Marc Chagall's powerfully evocative painting, THE WHITE CRUCIFIXION.
Thank you for your timely reprise of the Jewish/Christian story. Leonard Cohen's closing line says it all. Marc Chagall was an artist who crossed that invisible line. I remember the 'Jews for Jesus' groupies handing out pamphlets on the streets of Toronto in the 1970s. There was a formal attempt to bridge the gap by a new order of Catholic nuns, The Sisters of Sion, dedicated to crossing that invisible line. Under their auspices I participated in a Christian Jewish Passover Seder in the basement of Our Lady of the Assumption Church. Eventually I helped write A Feminist Haggadah with an interfaith group of women organized by a Jewish organization.