“The celebration of Jubilee years dates at least to the 14 Century though it locates its origins on the Jewish Jubilee every fifty years. The practice of Holy Doors at the Lateran Basilica (and ...

In the scrolls, I discovered a prophecy concerning the Jubilee, where these ancient Jewish monks said that Melchizedek would return. He would be the anointed one of God. And he would announce an ...

A: The short answer is, a Jubilee Year is a special year of grace and reconciliation. Today, the Catholic Church celebrates a Jubi ...

The term Jubilee is believed to come from the Hebrew word yobel, which is used to identify a musical instrument made from a ram’s horn and which was used by the Jews to mark the beginning of ...

In this way, Christianity has given the Jewish Jubilee a fuller and deeper meaning. This is indeed a general pardon, an open indulgence granted by the Pope under certain conditions to the faithful ...

was published here today by the Sentinel of Chicago as part of the celebration of the English-Jewish weekly’s Golden Jubilee year. Anita Libman Lebeson served as chief historian for the project.

The roots of the idea of a jubilee marked by debt forgiveness are found in the Hebrew Scriptures. I asked my friend Rabbi Yehiel Poupko, rabbinic scholar at the Jewish United Fund/Jewish ...