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August 27, 2026

When the Cardinals Came to the Yeshiva

The tale of a Jewish apostate.

Recently, Rabbi Hershel Schachter, one of America’s foremost Orthodox talmudic authorities, related a story about the time Cardinal Jean-Marie (né Aron) Lustiger (1926–2007) visited Yeshiva University. Yair Hoffman tells the story, and also provides a sensitive treatment of the apostasy of this French Jew who went on to be the archbishop of Paris:

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