Nostra aetate, or the Declaration on the Relation of the Church with Non-Christian Religions, is an official declaration of the Second Vatican Council, an ecumenical council of the Catholic Church. It
Synagoga and Ecclesia in Our Time (2015), sculpture by Joshua Koffman at the Jesuit-run Saint Joseph's University, Philadelphia, commemorating Nostra aetate
John XXIII met with Jules Isaac in 1960, the author of Jésus et Israël. After the meeting he directed the SECU to prepare a document on Catholic–Jewish relations for the Second Vatican Council.
Cardinal Augustin Bea oversaw the drafting of Nostra aetate by his periti as the President of the Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity.
Seton Hall University, New Jersey in the United States, where Decretum de Iudaeis was drafted in 1961. Jewish convert and Vatican II peritus, John M. Oesterreicher, founded the Institute of Judaeo-Christian Studies here in 1953.
The term "blood curse" refers to a New Testament passage from the Gospel of Matthew, Chapter 27, which describes events taking place in Pilate's court before the crucifixion of Jesus, and specifically
Pilate Washes His Hands, James Tissot