As the newly elected President of the World Jewish Congress, it is appropriate that one of my first official visits in this capacity should be to the Vatican … We hope that the meeting of Cardinals and Rabbis held in New York some years ago will be repeated and become a regular part of our common agenda. (Ron Lauder, World Jewish Congress President, Addressing Vatican assembly, Oct. 6, 2007)
http://www.worldjewishcongress.org/media_speeches/071006_rsl.html
The meeting between cardinals and rabbis which Ron Lauder references above–which he hopes will become a regular part of the Vatican-Judaic common agenda–was a visit to NY yeshivas (Talmud schools) where cardinals studied Talmud with rabbis and their students. That event is documented at the following links:
http://mauricepinay.blogspot.com/2007/06/cardinal-jean-pierre-ricard-of-ecclesia.html
http://mauricepinay.blogspot.com/2007/06/lustigers-2004-ny-yeshiva-tour.html