Rabbi Dr Benjamin Elton of the Great Synagogue, Sydney, discusses the importance of Nostra Aetate, 60 years on.

The Jew­ish peo­ple aren’t cursed by God or col­lec­tive­ly respon­si­ble for killing Jesus.

Those were two of the key mes­sages of Nos­tra Aetate, a land­mark dec­la­ra­tion by the Vat­i­can 60 years ago today, which over­turned cen­turies of sys­temic anti­semitism at the heart of Catholi­cism and rede­fined Jew­ish-Catholic rela­tions.

Rab­bi Dr Ben­jamin Elton of the Great Syn­a­gogue, Syd­ney, explains why it’s so sig­nif­i­cant.