Israel: a rabbi urges his colleagues not to meet with pope

2009-05-11 377

IN THE PAPERS: the English-language version of Israeli paper Yediyot Aharonot, reminds its readers that Pope Benedict XVI begins his five-day trip to Israel on Monday. The pontiff is to visit numerous sensitive sites including Jerusalem and the Holocaust museum Yad Vashem. A rabbi quoted in the article urges his fellow colleagues in Israel not to meet with Pope Benedict because “the Catholic Church tortured and murdered Jews and helped the Nazis…

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