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...experience" of the Holocaust and its lessons for Christians. The three-page missive was addressed to Archbishop John L. May of St. Louis, president of the U.S. conference of Roman Catholic bishops, thanking May for sending him a newly published collection of the Pontiff's statements on Jews and Judaism. While the letter was ostensibly routine, its language was heartfelt. "Christians approach with fearsome respect the terrifying experience of the extermination, the Shoah, suffered by the Jews during the Second World War," wrote the Pope, "and we seek to grasp its most authentic . . . meaning." He went on, "Before the vivid...
...journey to Auschwitz was the first by a Pontiff to a concentration camp. His visit last year to a Rome synagogue made him the first known Pope to enter a Jewish house of worship since St. Peter. But last May he beatified a nun, Edith Stein, a convert from Judaism, as a heroic Christian martyr. Jews had protested that Stein was gassed at Auschwitz not for her faith but for her ancestry. John Paul has also defended the actions of the German bishops under the Nazis, despite accusations that some were less than aggressive in their opposition to Hitler...
Insistence upon respect for the continuing validity of Judaism was the important achievement of the assembly. The delegates repudiated the idea that God turned against the Jews because they rejected Jesus as the Messiah, and expressed repentance for Christianity's part in past anti-Semitism. The American Jewish Committee said the document is "potentially of great historic importance" and has "broken significant new ground...
Presbyterians pass a landmark statement on Judaism. -- Baptist Fundamentalists win again. -- A federal court okays shunning...
...friction was too much for Communications Minister Amnon Rubinstein, who pulled his centrist, three-member Shinui Party out of the ruling coalition. Rubinstein was particularly incensed over the Likud bloc's frantic deal making with the religious parties, including a Likud promise to support legislation requiring overseas conversions to Judaism to have the approval of the Israeli chief rabbinate, a measure certain to antagonize many U.S. Jews. The Labor- Likud marriage, huffed Rubinstein, was a "two-headed monster ((that)) has reached a dead...